has escalated to closing the doors of the Casa Rosada to all accredited journalists. It is an unprecedented decision, repudiated by all local press organizations, which comes after thousands of insults and verbal attacks by the Argentine president on journalists and the prior suspension of some accreditations of those who report on the Executive Branch. The Government justified this Thursday that it is a preventive measure for reasons of “national security” after denouncing illegal espionage against two television journalists who recorded without permission inside the official building. The announcement occurs with a Government.
The Argentine Journalism Forum (Fopea) highlighted that preventing access to journalists who regularly work in the Casa Rosada is “a measure of extreme institutional gravity, since it alters the basic conditions for journalistic coverage of the main area of operation of the National Executive Branch.” , Fopea pointed out that the decision “involves limiting the possibility for society to know, understand and control the activity of its rulers.”
For Fopea, the complaint filed by the Military House against journalists from the Todo Noticias channel who recorded without authorization tours of the corridors of the government building “does not have a judicial resolution that determines the existence of irregular conduct.” For this reason, he maintains that it is disproportionate to withdraw access to all journalists indefinitely.
The ban on journalists’ entry shows the deterioration of the Government’s relationship with the media. In Milei’s first year, in 2024, he aspired to create the government headquarters. Also left behind are the daily press conferences in which the then spokesman, Manuel Adorni, gave sharp answers that made him win. Adorni, today Chief of Staff, has been in unwanted prominence in the media and justice for weeks. The prosecutor investigating him for alleged illicit enrichment received information this Thursday that he paid cash for almost $9,000 for accommodation in luxury hotels during his vacation with his family on the Caribbean island of Aruba to receive 2025. The plane tickets, also paid in cash, cost him $5,800 more. He made that trip despite Milei’s requests for austerity to his ministers on the eve of the Christmas holidays.
This Wednesday, the Argentines learned that the Chief of Staff was the intermediary who facilitated the purchase of the almost 200,000 square meter apartment in which he lives in Buenos Aires, as declared before the Court. Adorni bought it in November of last year for a reported price of $230,000 from two retirees who. His salary, at that time, was equivalent to $2,500 a month and was his only income, as he declared in his last sworn statement before the Anti-Corruption Office. Among the inconsistencies that Karina Mileia la Justicia published in
Both Milei and her sister Karina, Secretary of the Presidency, have ordered to close ranks around Adorni and have described the revelations that are accumulating about him as “media garbage.” Both have been photographed in recent weeks with the Chief of Staff and have published messages of support. “Beyond the operations of journalism and old politics, I know who you are and your integrity,” at the end of March, when it was learned that Adorni’s wife had traveled with the official delegation to the United States.
Milei’s protection of his chief of staff. Other scandals have been added to the ongoing investigations into the alleged $Libra crypto scam spread by Milei, suspicions that medications for the National Disability Agency were purchased at overprices, and the generous mortgage loans granted by public banks to pro-government legislators. The last of them affects the Secretary of Infrastructure Coordination of the Ministry of Economy, Carlos Frugoni, investigated for having at least five undeclared properties in the United States, according to the newspaper La Nación. Other local media put Frugoni’s US properties at eight. The restrictions imposed on the press raise tension in one of Milei’s worst moments.
