Carlos PAGNI

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In 2025, journalist and author Carlos Pagni was subjected to judicial harassment. On 9 May 2025, President Javier Milei filed a complaint against Pagni, a columnist for La Nación, for alleged defamation. The complaint related to Pagni’s comments made on 28 April 2025 on his programme Odisea Argentina, linked to his article ‘La Argentina, una torre de Babel‘ (Argentina, a Tower of Babel). The criminal accusation against Pagni was rejected by a judge, who ruled that the statements constituted opinions rather than malicious or defamatory assertions. President Milei appealed the closure of the case in June 2025, but on 17 July the Federal Chamber confirmed the dismissal and reaffirmed that the journalist’s conduct fell within constitutionally protected limits. 

Carlos Pagni, born in 1961, is a political columnist for the newspaper La Nación, a contributor to Telenoche, the main news programme of Channel 13, and host of Odisea Argentina on LN+ (a programme dedicated to political and economic analysis). He is also an international columnist for the newspaper El País and the author of the book El nudo (The Knot) (Planeta, 2023).