De Clarin groep & Glodman Sachs vs. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentinië

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Het botert reeds gedurende jaren niet goed tussen de Argentijnse regering en de Clarin-groep. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner zal op 7 December 2012 een wet introduceren welke de macht van de Clarin-groep zal beperken.

De anti-K groep zal juist voor die datum opnieuw een grootse betoging organiseren.

Sommigen beschuldigen de stichters van de anti-K groep banden te hebben met de Clarin groep en buitenlandse politieke belangengroepen.

Land Destroyer - Argentina Unrest: Brought to you by Goldman Sachs
11 november 2012 - Wall Street-owned media group "Clar�*n" spearheading anti-government drive in South America's Argentina.

The US-engineered "Arab Spring" brought us the "April 6 Youth Movement" in Egypt, run by Wall Street-backed Mohammed ElBaradei in coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood, the "February 17 Revolution," consisting of Al Qaeda terrorists of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in Libya, and now Argentina has the "8N," or "November 8" movement working in coordination with foreign-owned Argentinian media group, "Clar�*n." Clarin has been enthusiastically supporting the protesters and laying the rhetorical groundwork justifying their street presence.

The Guardian reported in their article, "Argentina protests: up to half a million rally against Fernández de Kirchner," that (emphasis added):

Word of the demonstration spread through social networks. Many organisers remain anonymous, but Mariana Torres, administrator of the Facebook page El Anti-K, one of the most active in calling for the rally, said she was delighted: "It was a true feast for democracy."

There was no single cause of discontent. Many in the middle class are angry at the highest inflation in a decade, estimated at a yearly 25% by private economists, currency controls that have created a black market in dollars, and one of the slowest economic growth rates in Latin America.

Banners and chants also took aim at recent corruption cases and Fernández's efforts to limit the power of big newspaper and TV conglomerates. Clar�*n, the country's most powerful media group, has stepped up its criticism of the government before the introduction on 7 December of a law that will weaken its empire.

Mention of the "El Anti-K" Facebook page by the Guardian is interesting for two reasons. First, Mariana Torres and collaborator Marcelo Moran who created the page, have made the unlikely and unqualified claim that they possess no affiliations whatsoever with any political organization. The level of support the protests have received from special interests within Argentina and abroad alone raise serious concerns regarding the veracity of "El Anti-K's" claims.


Image: Featured on the "El Anti-K" Facebook page, this banner expresses support for the "Fox News" of Argentina, Grupo Clarin. The overwhelming support for a large, special interest media outfit, owned by Goldman Sachs, undermines any legitimacy the 8N movement claims to have.
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Second, while the Guardian attempts to portray "El Anti-K" as a separate entity from Clarin, the page itself is riddled with suspicious defenders of Clarin, with one comment even reading (translated roughly from Spanish):

Clar�*n is a company and as a company is defined is precisely to unite human effort and capital to obtain a benefit. If this is within the law, we who bought their products or services should shut up or find another alternative. The Kristina government is the one who uses our money that we pay (in taxes), then steals it and distributes it for its own interests.

While surely any government is guilty of taking from the people their hard earned cash and misappropriating it in a variety of ways - to somehow claim that Clarin is simply an honest business operating within the law to "unite human effort and capital to obtain benefit," and that its own unwarranted influence is not a factor, is naive at best. Just how much unwarranted influence does Clarin have to draw from? It is backed by one of the largest corporate-financial institutions on Earth, Goldman Sachs.


Image: Taken from page 40 (43 of the .pdf) of Grupo Clar�*n's 2011 Annual Report. Goldman Sachs is the largest (and only) named major shareholder of the Clarin Group. The .pdf can be found here.
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And as illustrated throughout the duration of the US-engineered "Arab Spring," a corporate-financial institution like Goldman Sachs is not a single entity operating on its own, but part of a larger cartel of corporate-financier interests, who do not secretly plot in smoke-filled board rooms their agenda, but fund well-known policy think-tanks like the Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the American Enterprise Institute, and the International Crisis Group (ICG). These think-tanks in turn produce policy that is executed by Western politicians, and talking points which are sold to the public through the vast Western corporate media as well as local outfits like the Clarin Group in Argentina.

US government-funded fronts like the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, and George Soros' Open Society build up opposition groups inside targeted nations, at times directly funding groups when indigenous special interests are either incapable or disinterested in collaborating with foreign special interests.

In Argentina it is clear that indigenous special interests are linked with Western designs - just as they are in Venezuela, and a nearly identical campaign to undermine both nations is underway.

There is a Real Opposition in Argentina.

And while the current government of Argentina is an obstacle for foreign interests, it is by no means perfect. According to readers from Argentina, there are legitimate opposition groups without ties to foreign interests, or the protesters who recently took to the streets, and in fact, are vehemently opposed to foreign meddling in their country. They have enumerated grievances against the government of President Cristina Kirchner, but they are poorly covered by local and international media.

It would benefit these groups immensely if they exposed the current protests for what they are, and instead of holding their own protests, began pursuing a program of pragmatic solutions to address their grievances.

The governments of both Venezuela and Argentina do employ populism. If they did not, a Western proxy-candidate would move in and use populism to build a pro-West "people's movement" as an unassailable voting bloc, just as US-backed Thaksin Shinawatra has been doing in Thailand. Populism is a socioeconomic tool, and only as good or as bad as the people wielding it. And like any tool, overuse has its consequences.

The tension in Argentina is produced by the benefits of populism reaching their limitations in the face of external pressure, sanctions, and attempts at destabilization both political and economic. Just as has been pointed out in Venezuela after recent elections, more permanent solutions must be explored, and genuine opposition groups have an opportunity to lead the way.

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Meer over de Clarin groep : HIER

Meer over de historisch controversiële relatie tussen de Clarin Groep en de Kirchners : HIER

Wat er ook van is, dit is zeker de moeite waard om op te volgen.

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Wikipedia - Relation of Kirchnerism with the press

Latino FOX News - Argentina Gives Deadline to end Opposition Media Monopoly

_{BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – The government of Argentina has marked Dec. 7 as the day when media monopolies will no longer be able to put themselves above the law. On Saturday, Argentina's government announced that it would give one of its leading media critics, Grupo Clarin, a deadline to sell off most of its broadcast stations. Clarin, which owns 240 cable systems, 10 radio stations and four TV channels in addition to its flagship daily newspaper, has challenged the 2009 media law's anti-monopoly clauses limiting the number of stations any one company can own as unconstitutional.}


Argentinie tracht reeds gedurende enkel jaren de media te democratiseren. Ze gaan daarbij de strijd aan tegen de groep Clarin die zowat een monopolie heeft, destijds heeft samengewerkt met de militaire dictatuur en en schendingen van de mensenrechten heeft verzwegen.

Fair.org - Dictating the Press - U.S. media defend Argentine media’s connection to military junta

Latin American efforts to democratize media access have been treated as an assault on the press in U.S. corporate media. The latest supposed offender against freedom of the press is Argentina’s center-left government, headed by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Following her government’s decision to open investigations into the nation’s two largest newspapers’ collaboration with the bloody 1976–83 military dictatorship, outlets in the U.S. characterized her as a ruthless tyrant harboring a grudge against the nation’s most important media group.

Fernández de Kirchner’s government has made a number of radical moves to curb corporate control of the media and to democratize the nation’s media laws, something previous governments had left unchallenged since the country’s military dictatorship, when the laws were implemented. The dictatorship-era law restricted media ownership to private corporations, and allowed media conglomerates to hold dozens of broadcast licenses. The new law reserves 33 percent of broadcast media for community groups and restricts the market share and number of radio and television licenses any one corporation can control.

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De spanning loopt langzaam maar zeker op...

Een betoger geeft een journalist van de TV-zender C5N een klap

Clarin.com - VIDEO : Un manifestante golpeó a un periodista de C5N en Plaza de Mayo

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Fernández en de mediagroep Clarin in de startblokken

Fernández and media group prepare for fight

Forbes - Argentina grants Clar�*n late reprieve
7 december 2012 - An Argentine court has granted Clar�*n, the country’s biggest media group, an 11th hour reprieve hours before a showdown with the government over an anti-monopoly law that could spark a forced transfer of assets in the London-listed company.

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