By Sebastián Lacunza & Federico Poore Herald Staff Spanish group threatens to suspend investment after DNU decree largely favours Clarín Twenty-five days after taking office, and with a sense of urgency that surprised some of his closest allies, President Mauricio Macri passed his own media law by way of decree. The new piece of legislation bypassed Congress and yielded to many of the demands of the Clarín Group, the country’s largest conglomerate. But while the decision potentially benefits all major media and telecomms players in the pampas, Spanish giant Telefónica begs to disagree. “We’ve always spoke about convergence (that is, allowing a single company to offer cable television, Internet and landline services), but we need the law to be equal for all, not to benefit a specific firm in detriment of the other,” a source from Telefónica told the Herald. The company, which began operating in Argentina in 1990 providing landline telephone se...
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