Offices of Tiempo Argentino, a Buenos Aires newspaper critical of Macri, ransacked.

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2. No doubt about it. If this had been the other way around, WSJ shills would be screaming "censorship"

As you pointed out, it fits a clear pattern not only in Argentina but in the entire region.

This case is particularly obvious. I neglected to mention that the (Macri-controlled) police "negotiated an exit" with the vandals only after newspaper employees came in through a separate entrance and confronted them. The police, you'll recall, had refused to intervene in the least even though everyone there - including neighbors who had been woken up by the noise - heard the destruction going on inside.

The timing, as you also remarked on, is also pretty flagrant, given their recent website improvements and of course their report just the day before on the fact that Shell Argentina made $100 million off Energy Minister Aranguren's unethical deal with the Chilean gas company they themselves owned (as did Aranguren, a large shareholder therein).

When reading up on the story I noticed that one of the items destroyed by the vandals was a portrait of Rodolfo Walsh, the noted Argentine writer and journalist who was killed after publishing his famed Open Letter to the Junta on the first anniversary of same.

A good metaphor if there ever was one. Thank you as always for your research and insight Judi.