Economy Minister Sergio Massa and Deputy Máximo Kirchner’s agenda this week

Lucía Cholakian Herrera
Lucía Cholakian Herrera is a politics, society and human rights reporter for the Buenos Aires Herald. Her work has also appeared in Rest of World, VICE, Revista 5W, Foreign Policy, BBC, Documented, El Cohete a la Luna and Revista Crisis, among many others. She is an ICFJ 2022 Emerging Media Leader.
He led the cruelest years of Argentina’s last dictatorship
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Relatives, campaign groups and government officials say racism was a factor in the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa, the 18-year-old who was beaten to death outside a nightclub in the …
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EconomicsSocial movementsSociety
Government to cut welfare after IMF request to “exclude ineligible recipients”
Social Development Minister Victoria Tolosa Paz announced yesterday that 154,441 recipients of the Potenciar Trabajo (Empowering Work) welfare program would be cut off for failing to verify their identities in …
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Human rightsSocial movementsSociety
Seven years after her detention, Milagro Sala’s defense are still demanding justice
Mattresses, tents, and makeshift soup kitchens were spread across Belgrano square, in the dry summer sun of San Salvador de Jujuy. It was December 2015, and dozens of families and …
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National PoliticsPoliticsThe Rosca
Government presents judicial reforms, tax amnesty bills for special sessions debates
Yesterday evening, President Alberto Fernández formally announced that lawmakers would be called to special congressional sessions from January 23 to February 28 in order to debate 27 bills, including several …
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PoliticsSocial movementsSociety
Environmental activists protest ex-Syngenta CEO’s appointment as advisor
On Monday, environmental activists presented an open letter in the Casa Rosada requesting the resignation of incoming presidential advisor Antonio Aracre over the environmental record of his former company, Syngenta. …
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Latin AmericaPolitics
Brazil congress attack: Argentine opposition draws comparison with domestic politics
Argentine politicians across the spectrum have condemned Sunday’s attack on Brazil’s congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace. While ruling center-left Frente de Todos coalition has voiced solidarity with Lula, the …
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On January 2, after a three-year wait, eight members of a rugby team went on trial for a case that has gripped the nation: the murder Fernando Báez Sosa. The …
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Human rightsPoliticsSociety
Intelligence chief Rossi files lawsuit against Clarín, La Nación, and two journalists
Yesterday, Agustín Rossi, head of the Federal Intelligence Agency, filed a lawsuit against two of Argentina’s most prominent media outlets – Clarín and La Nación – and two of their …
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JudiciaryPoliticsThe Rosca
Fernández and allied governors send Supreme Court impeachment request to Congress
President Alberto Fernández and allied governors this morning presented Congress with a request to impeach the four Supreme Court justices, Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkratz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti. …
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President Alberto Fernández has announced that he will seek to impeach Supreme Court President Horacio Rosatti, with the support of allied governors. He also said he would order the Justice …