The Government of
Javier Milei
in charge of the organization and the grid of programs and content of
Public TV
reported that it will not renew the program of
the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association
, a decision that the organization described as "unfair."
For his part, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni celebrated the measure with his style on Twitter: "End."
From the program known as "
Madres de la Plaza
", they expressed through a statement that "they regret that by decision of the Public TV authorities, the cycle has been excluded from the programming and will broadcast its last broadcast on Saturday, February 24 ".
It was also the presidential spokesperson himself who confirmed the news through social networks.
"The new authorities of Public TV made the decision not to renew the May Term Mothers program for the year 2024. End," Adorni stated, with his Twitter catchphrase.
He did so accompanied by a video in which the association itself comments that this Saturday will be the last episode of the program.
The symbol of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association.
Photo EFE.
The mothers described the measure as an "unfair and untimely decision," which was communicated to them "just 72 hours ago."
The human rights organization repudiated the Milei government, whom it classified as "
deniers
" for the decision: "It deprives viewers throughout the country of a cycle that has been on the screen for 16 uninterrupted years, since that first broadcast, on December 5. January 2008".
"Gross miscalculation": Madres de Plaza de Mayo's criticism of Milei for being dropped from her program
The Mothers stated that they are not "surprised by the measure" in the face of "a government that has expressed its intention to destroy public media," but, they warned, they also "know that they have in the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo an organization willing to fight with all their strength to prevent it."
"For the rest, we regret
Milei's gross miscalculation:
if he thinks that by taking us off the air he will end our fight, he is greatly mistaken," they expressed and affirmed: "
We will continue in the Plaza de Mayo
."
They also pointed out that "together with the struggle of our people we will build the political conditions to recover that television space."
"That television space that exceeds us: it is part of a way of fighting and communicating that has already done school, has left its mark and sooner rather than later will prevail. Like the fight of our children," concluded the statement signed by the Mothers Association. of Plaza de Mayo and its subsidiaries of Mar del Plata, Mendoza and Tucumán.
"Madres de la Plaza" is a program that has been broadcast on Saturdays at 9 in the morning on Public TV for 16 years and tells all the current events of the organization, with its activities, events, interviews, audiovisual archive and the well-known Thursday March.
With information from Télam