Macri uses prosecutor to take office 12 hrs. early and bar predecessor from inaugural.

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12. Sure. The dictators handed Clarín the nation's largest newsprint company, Papel Prensa.

They forced the widow of the original owner to sign it over, under duress, to a consortium made up of Clarín, La Nación, and La Razón (The Clarín Group later bought out La Razón - the most moderate of the three - and so now controls most of Papel Prensa).

The dictatorship, who lured the widow (Lidia Papaleo) back to Argentina in 1976, would alternate torture sessions with polite visits from Clarín's CEO, Héctor Magnetto, until she gave in (the ol' good cop, bad cop tactic). Papaleo settled out of court a decade later, so she's still barred from going into too much detail about what happened. She's now in her late 70s and living happily in Argentina - though I wouldn't be surprised if she left the country in the near future.

So you see, Clarín must still feel a "debt of gratitude" to the regime that gave them a gift as valuable as Papel Prensa (which puts out 60% of Argentina's newsprint).

In all fairness though, Clarín is rather moderate compared to the rabidly fascist La Nación (the ones always publishing op-eds demanding an end to human rights trials). La Nación's lead opinion writer, Carlos Pagni, was famously caught receiving bribes from Repsol to discredit the Argentine state oil firm YPF (which Cristina Kirchner had renationalized in 2012 after Repsol almost ran it into the ground). This and other such incidents have earned it the nickname of "La Traición" - the Treason.