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 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. Aracre has not yet started his mandate, which will begin on February 1. The document has over 15,000 …
Leaders of opposition coalition Juntos por el Cambio have announced plans to boycott the government’s legislative agenda for the duration of its impeachment bid against the supreme court. “For as long as this abuse against the Supreme Court of Justice continues, we will not give quorum or viability …
Feminist lawyer and journalist Greta Pena will become the new chairwoman of the National Institute Against Discrimination, Racism and Xenophobia (INADI) after Victoria Donda’s resignation on December 29. “My goal in joining INADI is to support the social consensus we’ve built around freedom, equality, and combating discrimination,” she …
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 Juntos por el Cambio opposition has compared the attacks with the internal wrangle for Argentina’s Supreme Court. The …
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil is reeling in shock after supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and defaced the country’s Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on Sunday afternoon, in a grim echo of the U.S. Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President …
The violent invasion of the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia by thousands of far-right supporters –only a week into Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s third government–, caught security forces strikingly off guard, especially state military police and the Army. Indeed, evicting the camps set up near …
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 …
Next week, the financial team will contact Argentina’s trade union federation, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), to start drafting a wage round plan for this year with a hike barely above the 60% projected inflation set in the 2023 budget. Designed by minister Sergio Massa, the government …
