Argentine government suspends Senate TV channel

Argentine government suspends Senate TV channel

By Staff Writers, teleSUR
Sunday, Dec 27, 2015


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Argentinian President Mauricio Macri | Photo: EFE
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The recently-elected government of Mauricio Macri ordered the immediate suspension of the Senate's TV channel, Senado TV, on Friday.

The measure was authorized by Macri’s Vice President Gabriela Michetti, informed the Senate's administrative secretary in a congressional memo, and is part of a widespread move against public media in the country, that has sparked a series of major protests over the last two weeks.

The order to suspend the channel was made on Dec. 22, but was only processed on Friday.

The government justified the move by saying that during the suspension “the channel's programation will be reorganized, and the Senate will be externally audited over its accounts.”

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