International rights nonprofit Human Rights Watch warned in the Argentina chapter of its annual report, published today, that the country was facing threats to judicial independence. However, it praised the country’s flagship abortion legislation at a time of reversals on reproductive rights in the US. The report’s authors …
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 18-year-old who was beaten to death outside a nightclub in the coastal resort city of Villa Gesell. During …
In the midst of its full-blown crossfire with the Supreme Court, the national government is thinking of including the bill to reform the Council of Magistrates –which they presented in late 2021 and still has parliamentary status– on the agenda for the call to special congressional sessions. President …
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. They allege that the Court overstepped its competence in the federal tax share ruling and colluded with the …
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 Minister to investigate alleged corruption between Buenos Aires City government officials and local contractors and businessmen. In a …
On Tuesday, vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner accused the judiciary of timing legal action against her to nix her electoral chances. It was her first public speech since being handed a six-year prison sentence and a ban on holding public office in the Vialidad case on December 6. …
President Alberto Fernández said on Monday that the national government would pay federal tax revenues to Buenos Aires city government in the form of bonds. His announcement indicates that the national government will comply with a Supreme Court order to direct more tax funding to the city, after …
After the Supreme Court ruled on December 21 to restore disputed federal tax revenues to Buenos Aires city in the dispute with the national government, president Alberto Fernández and Frente de Todos politicians have argued that the decision is arbitrary and unfair to the rest of the country’s …
The Supreme Court ruling tried to aim at the middle. To be fair like Solomon. Obviously, the national government believes the top court’s ruling, which grants an injunction to the Buenos Aires City to recover part of the percentage of the federal tax share that had been taken …
