Journalist critical of Argentina's Macri found dead

[sandensea]

Martín Licata, an Argentine investigative journalist who had been missing since Saturday, was found dead in a Buenos Aires hotel today.

Licata, 27, had been reported missing Saturday morning from his home in Buenos Aires' westside. Police confirmed earlier today that the body of a man found Saturday afternoon in a small, nearby hotel was in fact Licata's.

According to official sources, his body had been found by cleaning staff that day. He was found handcuffed and garroted with a rubber braid attached to a piece of wood around the neck.

A young woman seen entering the hotel with Licata around 11:30 a.m. and leaving two hours later, remains at large.

"Martín left home at nine in the morning," his mother Mónica Ibáñez had told the Télam news agency. "It's not common for him to leave at that time on a Saturday. When he does it's because he has a meeting at work or is going to interview someone."

Licata wrote for two online news journals and a magazine - all of them critical of the right-wing Mauricio Macri administration. He had recently reported receiving threats through his Facebook account and was physically attacked two months ago by unknown assailants.

His death comes just one day after that of labor lawyer Juan Pablo Labaké, 59, who reportedly fell from his office window on the fifth floor of a downtown building. His father, Juan Gabriel Labaké, is an attorney representing survivors of the 1994 AMIA boming, and a prominent critic of the both the Argentine and Israeli governments' handling of the as-yet unsolved incident, which killed 85.

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Martín Licata, 1991-2018.

Licata had written numerous investigative pieces on alleged corruption by the Macri administration.

[wcmagumba]

1. A trump republican wet dream...nt

[sandensea]

2. He'll be in Buenos Aires next week for the G20 summit

I bet he'll ask his pal Macri how they did it.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Looks as if whoever contracted that murder wanted to send a message to the public, too.

Couldn't sound more sinister, more intentional, could it?

So many leftists or anyone questioning right-wing governments end up going out windows on upper floors, don't they? Have heard that was covered many years ago in the CIA manuals. This reminds me, I saw a photo taken during the Dirty War of a group of prisoners being forced to kneel outside in Argentina, on the ground, and they had black bags over their heads. I thought, "Gee, that looks familiar, and so many years before the Iraq War!"

It's probably ALL been covered by the SOA when it was still in Panama, and all of those techniques known throughout the Western Hemisphere by right-wing dictators' militaries all this time.

People who have known Latin American politics all this time probably have been spotting the comparitive events for a couple of years, wouldn't you imagine? We used to have a poster here I knew since 2000, who was educated in Latin America, and a journalist for United Press International before Rev. Moon bought them out, and he wrote from ALL the countries under dictatorship, and discussed dictatorship events first at CNN, then here. His revelations were intense, and fascinating. I only wish he could comment on the current times in Argentina, where he lived with his wife whom he met there in university. (One of their classmates they spotted walking into the Mechanics School one afternoon, which gave him away, as he was passing as a "student" at the time.) He had a heart attack and died a couple of years ago, another poster who followed him too, told me.

Everything that happens in Argentina now is getting more and more extreme, isn't it?

The Native Argentinian woman being held without trial for years, the man taken by the police, tortured, then found months later in the water, after being kept and stored, apparently in refrigeration, to make it appear he lived longer after he was kidnapped off the face of the map, and so many other hideous situations have happened in only a couple of years.

It seems so much longer, now, doesn't it? Macri has created so much poverty, dispair, desperation, and NOW he's starting to really play rough by making his assassinations far clearer to read, to start his campaign of terror, to start paralyzing the population with fear so they'll be afraid to start dissenting openly, and start struggling just to stay alive.

Very old pattern, isn't it?

This killing does remind you of the rock thrown through the window with a message attached to it. It's a very public assassination of someone who dared to question Macri publicly.

Thank you, so much, for posting it, sandensea.

[sandensea]

6. Very suspicious indeed. I understand he investigated alleged Macri ties to underage prostitution.

Sadly, I doubt we'll ever know who killed him.

Thanks for that very thorough reply, Judi. To paraphrase Rumsfeld: We live in the world we live in, not in the one we wished we had.

Macri, for his part, is currently in even more political trouble due to an entirely unforced error.

You'll recall the ARA San Juan sub was located on November 17 (the day of this young man's death, btw), and that Macri declared three days of national mourning.

Just two hours after the declaration, he was caught doing this:

¡Eso!

[Judi Lynn]

7. I could see why Macri would wish no one knew, but that method shoud assure everyone knows,

if there is ever to be any justice again.

Hideous, horrifying, shameful.

At some point, these people are going to have to lose their protection. This guy has been begging for it.

Nice he could blow off some steam dancing the night away. He dances not like the wind. It's as if he is dancing in a bog. Maybe his criminality is dragging him down.

There is a strangely familiar coincidence in the sudden announcement of the submarine, and the murder, and the oddly distracting effect the news created. Mere coincidence brought the two events into alignment?

It's like watching an enormous cobra dancing before us every day just reading the news, isn't it? Mind-boggling.

Very bad time in history to be a journalist. May these two latest men rest in peace.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Only 27. That's truly obscene. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

5. He looked like a grandson of Ernesto Guevara! Here's an earlier bulletin poster:

What a shame they have gotten by with it, sandensea.

Karma will not miss its date with the one who created this tragedy.