What I know for sure (I'm happy to be proven wrong with evidence, even a cached internet page would do) is that UIF has not taken Seychelles off the list in at least the last year. So when Lanata claims that the government did otherwise and provides no proof, I find it hard to take him on his word.
Please come forward with your evidence for your statement above. If you claim, that you know for sure, then I need to hold you to the same standard and ask you to please prove without a shadow of a doubt what "you know for sure". Please show evidence that the government has NOT temporarily changed the list at any time in the last 12 months.
You only have to knock down one of Lanata's items in order to discredit his whole investigation - at least these are the rules that you seem to be happy to play by. Lanata on the other hand has to prove all his claims presented in the investigations. If we go by your standards, if he gets it wrong ONLY once, he should be hung up and left to dry.
What's the hurry? It's not about Lanata, it's about the corruption. This is not an 'open and shut case' to be settled on within hours.
Lanata is not the Judge/Jury/Prosecutor/Law. He does not have to build the case and provide all the evidence, that's the job of the LAW..he's just the journalist. His job is to PUBLICIZE and DRAW public attention to the smoking gun.
Every time he has exposed the high level criminal activity, the Kirchner mafia has stopped and frozen all investigations. They have removed neutral /independent judges & planted their own, they have threatened and attempted to discredit neutral judges, cancelled or delayed search warrants, BLOCKED EVIDENCE from being released, you name it...so far NO ONE HAS BEEN JAILED or prosecuted.
One could ask, why should we fixate on whether Lanata is 100% right or not?
In time all the evidence will surface, most of the time he's been spot on...his credibility is intact with those of us who have bothered to follow up on the leads.
"Sensationalism"? ...with respect I say, maybe it's more a 'Cultural misunderstanding' on your part. At this point in history the Argentine public is very 'ADHD', too many urgent issues to deal with.... in between the Tinelli boobs and asses and futbol para todos etc, capturing the general public's attention is a serious challenge here, conveying the messages is the goal..sure I don't like the melodramatic music & the moving camera shots either...but this is the contemporary video language that seems to work for now...it's not BBC I know.
We would hope to raise journalistic standards at some point in the future, but for now, we just have one main objective...save the republic!.
