Milei announces he will close Argentina's state news agency Telam

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President Javier Milei announced Friday that he would move to shutter Argentina’s state news agency Télam.


President Javier Milei announced Friday that he would move to shutter Argentina’s state news agency Télam.

The news, delivered in the president’s speech marking at the opening of normal sessions before the Legislative Assembly, met with cheers from Milei’s supporters, who see the state media outlet as supportive of Kirchnerism and Petronism.

"We are going to close the Télam agency, which has been used over the last few decades as a propaganda agency for Kirchnerism," he said, referring to former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her political movement.

Milei said the agency is one of those "large political boxes that are simply places to generate militant employment."

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