‘Bought-off, corrupt’: Argentine president attacks ICIJ member Hugo Alconada Mon

Journalists in the South American country have called for the U.N. to intervene as the president’s public attacks become more hostile. Argentine president Javier Milei escalated his rhetoric against journalists on Friday, singling out veteran investigative reporter and ICIJ member Hugo Alconada Mon along with four other reporters as “mercenaries of lies” and suggesting they should be “burned at the stake.”