 At the same time, a new legal framework decreed that all advertisement by state entities and companies be handled through the agency.This decision allowed the company to generate a considerable amount of new internal resources.The agency did not come out unscathed from the dictatorship in power between 1976 and 1983; besides the censorship to which it was subjected under the dictatorship, during the subsequent, democratically elected government of Raúl Alfonsín, the disappearance of an important part of Télam's journalistic and photographic archives came to light.