The former home of Victoria Montenegro, who was kidnapped and raised by a military family, will be signaled as memory site

Thousands of Russian women have given birth in Argentina, which grants citizenship to anyone born in the country

Two men returned to court this week to stand a fresh trial on charges of killing 16-year-old Lucía Pérez by plying her with cocaine and then raping her in 2016.  Matías Gabriel Farías and Juan Pablo Offidani were controversially acquitted of femicide and sexual abuse in 2018, sparking …

Pro-government members of the Impeachment Commission yesterday won a 16-15 vote to start the impeachment of the Supreme Court justices. Therefore, an investigation into the 14 complaints filed against the highest court of the country will begin, and it could lead to the dismissal of the judges. “The …

Santa Fe Security Minister Rubén Rimoldi was removed from office last night by provincial governor Omar Perotti. He was replaced by Claudio Brilloni, a former gendarme who worked in Rosario provincial security while Patricia Bullrich was security minister.  The dismissal came after a wave of violent crime in …

Brazil’s environmental and indigenous agencies have launched an enforcement operation in the Amazon rainforest to expel thousands of illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis among the Yanomami people, officials said on Wednesday. Armed agents of the government’s environmental protection agency Ibama, deployed by helicopter and …

There are nearly five times more trans people working in government institutions than there were in 2020, before legislation establishing trans labor quotas was implemented, according to a report by the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity.  The report found that 574 trans people currently hold jobs in …

The death toll from a massive landslide that struck southern Peru rose to at least 15 on Tuesday, according to a government tally, after dozens of homes were swallowed up by dirt and mud following heavy rainfall last weekend. Another 20 people were injured after the landslide struck on Sunday …

The judges who heard the Fernando Báez Sosa murder trial explained in their ruling why they decided to sentence most of the amateur rugby players convicted of his killing to life imprisonment.  Five of the eight defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment for homicide, doubly aggravated on grounds …