Not much has gone right recently for Cristina Fernandez, Argentina's embattled president. She has suffered humiliations in a fight with bondholders abroad (see page 76),while enduring pot-banging protesters and a general strike at home. But her government is savouring the prospect of imminent victory in a protracted dis- pute with the Clarin media group, one of its most powerful critics. In 2009 Ms Fernandez pushed through a law redistributing broadcasting licences. It splits them equally between the private sector, the state and a nebulous "public sector" (which opponents say is government-dominated). The law bars owners of national free-to-air television and radio channels from also holding cable-television licences; it divides the cable-television market into 2,200 geographical areas, and limits operators to just 24 of them.
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