Panama -The digital newspaper Bayano, an alternative project in Panama to spread the voice of the progressive sectors, today rejected the attempts by the Argentinean government to close the multinational Telesur news network in that country.

The desire to close this media which conveys truth and the world current events represents a hard and unacceptable blow to freedom of expression, refers the publication in a note signed by its Editorial Board.

Such a decision, the statement adds, marks the beginning of a campaign by the right wing in the American continent, with the aim of silencing the social movements and imposing harmful and alien models to national interests.

'No reason justifies these attacks on Telesur, which news agenda is determined with the help of an advisory council integrated by figures such as the Argentinean Nobel prize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, the Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal, and Pakistani writer Tariq Ali, the political scientist and filmmaker Saul Landau, the chief editor of Le Monde diplomatique Ignacio Ramonet, the Argentinean film producer Tristán Bauer, and the actor and activist Danny Glover'.

Therefore, Bayano digital joins the voices repudiating the actions of the Argentinean government, which tries to impose by force a model of oppression against the popular will.

In recent days, the newspaper La Nación leaked in its pages the plans of the Argentinean president, Mauricio Macri, to withdraw the agency from that country and to cause its exit from the state platform of Open Digital Television and private cable operators, with an interest to cease its emissions.

Telesur is a multinational television channel based in Caracas, Venezuela, which transmits its signal for free since 2005.

Since then, it has millions of followers in Latin America and the Caribbean, due to its well-documented approaches, its reports on integration and the need to recover the memory of the people, the editorial by Bayano concludes.