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 journalists, respectively, alleging they violated the Intelligence Act after they published confidential information provided by the Agency to …
One day in the chilly Tierra del Fuego fall, Paula walked into a primary care center to terminate her pregnancy. The staff gave her pills of the abortion drug Misoprostol, and she carried out the procedure at home. A few days later, she started to feel pain. She …
Bolivian police arrested Santa Cruz governor Luis Fernando Camacho on terrorism charges near his home on Wednesday afternoon. The opposition figurehead is accused of participating in the 2019 coup d’etat that forced out long-serving leader, Evo Morales, in the wake of controversial electoral fraud allegations. Camacho was taken …
The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, who search for people illegally taken from their parents as newborn babies during Argentina’s last dictatorship (1976-1983) and raised under a false identity, announced Wednesday that they had found their 132nd missing grandchild, a man born in 1975 named Juan José Morales. …
The organization dedicated to the search for illegally appropriated children during the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced that they found their 131st stolen grandchild, identified as the son of Lucía Angela Nadín and Aldo Hugo Quevedo, two natives from Mendoza who were kidnapped …
Forty-six years have passed since Hernán Abriata, then 24, was kidnapped from the flat where he and his wife Mónica lived on the night of October 30, 1976. He was taken to the ESMA, the former Navy Mechanical School in Buenos Aires, one of the biggest clandestine detention …
Haydée Gastelú, one of the founding members of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, died on Monday at the age of 94, according to a statement from Mothers of Plaza de Mayo – Founders. The cause of her death was not immediately made public. Argentina’s Human Rights Secretariat …
