Overview
- Mario Pergolini used his TV show Otro día perdido to condemn coordinator Enzo Ferreira and call for his removal from Radio Nacional Tucumán.
- Ferreira, a manager at the state station and a La Libertad Avanza figure, had called Mercedes Sosa “gorda comunista” and shared a post calling her “cáncer” in February.
- He issued two apologies that admitted imprudence and said he “clearly offended,” yet he defended the ideological label and cited Twitter’s harsh tone.
- Sosa’s family rejected the apologies, renewed their demand that he resign from the station named for her, and highlighted a petition drawing thousands of signatures.
- Tucumán’s cultural agency and Governor Osvaldo Jaldo publicly rebuked the remarks, pushing the dispute from social media into a broader question of public servants’ speech online.