Argentina's Biggest Newspaper El Clarin Fires 56 Journalists Without Warning

[Judi Lynn]

Journalists protest outside El Clarin newspaper in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 18, 2019. | Photo: Twitter / @aRGra_

Published 18 April 2019 (4 hours 17 minutes ago)



Dozens of journalists Wednesday could not enter to work at the newspaper El Clarin in Buenos Aires because this private company fired them without any sign of courtesy to their years of service.

"I was the Sports editor until yesterday. I worked almost forty years here. Like my colleagues, I received an email informing us we have been thrown out," Guillermo Tagliaferri said and commented that job losses are happening throughout Argentina due to "an economic policy that destroys working places and does not respects worker's rights."

The newspaper facilities remained guarded to prevent 56 journalists from trying to enter. Nevertheless, the fired workers immediately started a rally outside El Clarin.

"We are on a 24-hour demonstration against 56 dismissals which were carried forward with the methods of fear such as police, fences, blacklists," journalist Daniel Mecca reported through social networks.

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