News channel critical of Argentina's Macri blocked from paying salaries

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2. Can you imagine if the Kirchners had done this to Clarin? And Clarin has 11 (hidden) Panama accounts

The Wall Street Journal - and others - would be howling about "censorship in Argentina!"

Like Bush (with Alberto González) and many other such regimes have done, most of Macri's abuses have taken place by way of a weaponized judiciary - i.e. lawfare.

Strategically placed prosecutors and judges who, either through political affinity or sheer bribery (and sometimes extortion), will railroad opponents at the president's whim.

Cheeto, as you know, has openly toyed with doing the same to Hillary and other prominent Democrats.

Luckily, Macri has not been able to hijack the Supreme Court the way Trump has. They played along with him for a couple of years; but they've recently asserted their independence a lot more.

There's good reason to believe this clearly illegal ruling against C5N staff will be overturned.

Since December, they've ruled against Macri on everything from amnesty for Dirty War torturers (the '2-for-1' get-out-of-jail-card case); his cuts to pensions; and his attempt to write off his own family's $300 million debt to the postal service.

Even Macri's most loyal Supreme Court Justice, former Clarín lawyer Carlos Rosenkrantz, voted against him on that last one.

The Argentine Supreme Court: Standing up to an increasingly authoritarian Macri; even Rosenkrantz (right) is creating some daylight between himself and the president.