Costa Rica’s top newspaper says US revoked visas of its executives, prompting press freedom concerns
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Mr1ntexxx@reddit
Context, La Nación is the most popular newspaper, and has been at odds with the current administration. The president has consistently used the typical "fake news" allegations against them.
MidSolo@reddit
He's basically a mini-Trump, sex-pest and all.
kolitics@reddit
"The move appeared to mark the latest instance of the Trump dministration deploying immigration restrictions to punish its political foes, "
Do they mean political foes of Chaves or are they trying to figure out why self identified foreign adversaries would have their visas revoked?
CantaloupeComplex209@reddit
"SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — The United States has revoked the visas of several board executives at La Nación, one of Costa Rica’s leading media outlets, triggering fresh accusations that the U.S. — in conjunction with the allied Costa Rican government — is stripping visas to punish critics and political opponents.
In a statement that ran as the newspaper’s front page on Sunday, the board of directors said that the affected members first learned they had been stripped of their visas to enter the U.S. from reports in pro-government media.
La Nación has long been a thorn in the side of outgoing Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump who has agreed to accept up to 100 third-country deportees a month as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up deportations."
Political foes of the Costa Rican President. Also, cancelling visas to punish news outlets for not agreeing with you is not a good practice. You're framing it as if this should be normalized, but it really shouldn't.
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