Argentina Newspaper
An-Nuur, Wapo Media Editors Visiting U.S. With International Group - "Dar es Salaam, Tanzania"
Omar Msangi has been An-Nuur's editor since 2000, while Mwassa Jingi was editor for Wapo Media's Msemakweli newspaper from 1999 to 2003, before becoming the Secretary General of the company that owns the Msemakweli newspaper and a radio station known as Wapo FM. ... Editors of the Islamic An-Nuur newspaper and the Christian Wapo Media Company have left for Washington, D.C. for a three-week seminar on multiculturalism in US society sponsored by the US Department of State. The two, Omar Juma Msangi (An-Nuur) and Jeremiah Mwassa Jingi (Wapo Media), will join twenty other participants from different countries around the world, in a programme that will also take them to Minneapolis, Minnesota; Louisville, Kentucky; Raleigh, North Carolina; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Los Angeles, California. ... [Read More]
Argentina
Some sources cited an increased tendency by national and provincial government agencies to withhold advertising to manipulate media coverage. The Inter American Press Association expressed concern regarding legal and other actions taken in August by the Nequen Province government against the Rio Negro newspaper, allegedly in reprisal for the newspaper's editorial policy against revealing sources. Concerns also were raised about the degree to which major print media, subject to severe financial constraints, exercised self-censorship in their criticism of the Government in exchange for favorable government treatment of debts and allocation of official advertising. ... [Read More]
Argentina
In July ADEPA expressed its concern to the provincial government in Santiago del Estero with respect to an incident in which the telephones of El Liberal, a local daily newspaper, were wiretapped. The incident occurred after El Liberal published a story on an alleged intelligence gathering network sponsored by the provincial government. The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) criticized anonymous threats against three of El Liberal's journalists and the distribution of pamphlets with defamatory information about El Liberal. IAPA representatives met with Interior Minister Storani and expressed their concern over the situation in Santiago del Estero. In November the IAPA sent a delegation to Santiago del Estero to investigate the charges. ... [Read More]
2002
1111--03/21/02 Global Trends for the Coming Decade and the Formulation of U.S. Foreign Policy; Marc Grossman, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Remarks to the National Newspaper Association; Washington, DC ... 1111--11/01/02 Interview by Pepe Carreno of El Universal (Mexican newspaper); Marc Grossman, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Washington, DC ... 1111--08/29/02 Interview by Maurizio Molinari of La Stampa (Italian Newspaper); Marc Grossman, Under Secretary for Political Affairs ; Washington, DC ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
The television system is PAL-N. Neither U.S. nor non-Argentine multi-system models operate here, unless you subscribe to Direct TV (satellite). Some families have found it much easier to simply purchase a TV locally. Multi-system VCRs do operate here and need not be converted. Newspapers, Magazines, and Technical JournalsLast Updated: 11/17/2003 3:13 PM ... [Read More]
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Remarksby Ambassador Lino Gutierrez before the Argentine Newspaper Owners Association ... [Read More]
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Remarks by Ambassador LinoGutierrez before the Argentine Newspaper Owners Association ... [Read More]
V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G
Belize is a transit and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of labor and sexual exploitation. Women and children are trafficked to Belize, mainly from Central America, to work in Belize’s growing sex industry. Girls are trafficked internally for sexual exploitation, sometimes with the consent and encouragement of their parents. There are also reports of sexual and labor exploitation of men and women in Belize’s banana, sugarcane, and citrus industries. Some Chinese and Indians are trafficked to Belize for debt bondage. Exact numbers of trafficking victims are unknown, particularly the number of transnational trafficking victims, given Belize’s lengthy and porous borders. The Government of Belize does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. B ... [Read More]
Argentina
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice. The Constitution states that the Federal Government "sustains the apostolic Roman Catholic faith" and provides it some privileges not available to other religions. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report. [Read More]
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