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 social activists were camped outside the Governance Building, demanding the newly-elected governor Gerardo Morales restore resources to their …
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 …
At least 17 people were killed in clashes with police in southern Peru, the country’s human rights office said on Monday, the deadliest day so far of protests demanding early elections and the release of jailed former president Pedro Castillo. The clashes occurred in Juliaca, a city near …
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 …
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 …
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 …
This week, Minister of Social Development Victoria Tolosa Paz met with leftist social movement coalition Unidad Piquetera (UP) and the Social Economy Workers’ Union (UTEP), which brings together pro-government social organizations, to negotiate welfare payments. In recent months both organizations have been protesting cuts to social welfare plans …
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. …
