Antonio Laje He is a very controversial figure on Argentine television. The América TV presenter has received several complaints of labor mistreatment in recent years from some of his teammates, such as María Belén Ludueña, who left the program they shared together, and nutritionist Fiorella Vitelli.
However, little-known information was shared by the media: a former employee who had worked for the station since 1994 had already spoken with management about the actions of his colleague. Antonio Laje several years before the allegations surfaced. This is Juan Carlos Otero, who resigned from his position in 2016 after making a complaint in the Justice against the group that controls the television signal.
“It was common to see producers crying, arguments and insults,” said the journalist about the work space that his partner had created since he arrived at the channel in 2014, according to the file shared by the newspaper Perfil. the fight between Antonio Laje and Otero began in 2015, when the driver called him in a bad way at his office after a situation that had occurred with the chronicler. “The manager summoned him to his office and in a bad manner, between insults and blows to his desk, asked him for explanations for a comment expressed on the air,” the file narrates about that moment.
According to some of Otero’s friends who are still part of the channel, that was the breaking point in the relationship, since “if you contradict him, you’re in trouble.” For this reason, the journalist was gradually removed from the program from which they did not call him for some important topics and, even, they even took weekend hours away from him.
The complaint
Although the main person around this complaint is the television host, is made towards the Group that owns the channel, due to the alleged mismanagement they did of what was happening. In fact, in the texts the journalist was marked as the main instigator: “With the assumption of laje All kinds of unpleasant situations occurred in the News Department. Co-workers were leaving the channel tired of it.”
According to the information shared by the medium, from the company they affirmed that this complaint exists, but they indicated that it was rejected in the first instance.