With her indigenous ancestry substantially but not completely decimated by colonialism and republican expansionism and modernization, Argentina is an eloquent example of Anglo-American, Spanish, and other Roman-Germanic legal fusions. A nation of mainly civil law and federalist roots, Argentineans gradually built a prominent legal tradition that continuous to exert significant hemispheric influence in various policy areas including communication law. Not surprisingly, the Argentinean federal courts and legal doctrine in media law has been prone to embrace Anglo-American interpretations.