March 14, 2025
From the Union of Cuban Journalists on Cuban Press Day, 133 years after José Martí gave life to the newspaper Patria
Argentina is in the streets. The Milei-Bullich regime is beating and gassing pensioners and those who support them in their just demands.
Journalists and photojournalists bear witness to the brutality, an inconvenient truth that the government has wanted to silence since it came to power. That is why it has closed or restricted public media such as Telam and the local Radio Nacional stations.
repression in the streets of Buenos Aires
Now, in this attempt to silence the voices of the people, to hide the images of the protests and the police onslaught, they are also making press workers “targets for repression”.
In these days of vibrant street demonstrations, Ministry of Security officers have injured some twenty colleagues while they were reporting the events, according to the Argentine Association of Photojournalists.
Photojournalist Pablo Grillo, was one of the “targets to be repressed”, and now he is fighting for his life after being hit by a gas grenade that caused a serious skull fracture.
From Cuba we stand in solidarity with our Argentinean colleagues.
They will never be able to silence the voices of a people.
The Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC) strongly joins the denunciation.
Source: UPEC, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English