Alicia Castro does not shy away from her views. She came to diplomacy from the trade union movement, where she was a leader when she was a flight attendant with Aerolíneas Argentinas. Castro spent eight ...
Another priest sexual abuse scandal has rocked the Catholic Church this time implicating officials as high up as Pope Francis. The global sex abuse and cover-up scandal that has devastated the reputation of the Catholic ...
A recent weapons seizure by Argentine authorities of about 1,000 guns and hundreds of explosives is the nation’s largest in history, according to officials. (By Josefina Salomón and Carolina Sampó, InSight Crime) While the seizure of ...
The rifle parts cost about $1,500. The assembled firearms sold for as much as $12,000 in Paraguay and $20,000 in Brazil. (By Josefina Salomón, InSight Crime) Arms traffickers in Argentina bought US AR-15 rifle parts, ...
The National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and free abortion called for demonstrations across Argentina to demand the government to address the bill for Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy again this year. (PeoplesDispatch) On ...
Oil companies in Vaca Muerta, one of the largest reserves of oil and gas in the world, are accused of illegally dumping industrial oil and toxic waste in open waste ponds, as revealed in a ...
“The company has been exposed and could not defend itself; they allowed the army to torture us inside the factory.” On Tuesday, two former Ford Motor Company executives were sentenced in an Argentine courtroom for ...
Tomasi suffered from a serious illness due to his exposure to pesticides and despite his physical pain, raised his voice to denounce the multimillionaire agribusiness companies responsible. (NewsClick) Fabián Tomasi, who contracted severe toxic polyneuropathy ...
Several currencies in emerging markets have suffered recent downfalls since Turkey was hit by a financial crisis last month. The trend of weakening currencies has reverberated across countries from South Africa to Indonesia. Argentina entered ...
After a 15-hour debate last Thursday, the Argentine Senate voted to reject a draft bill that would have legalized abortion within the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. 38 Senate members rejected the bill, 31 supported ...
At issue is the fact that the lack of legal abortion led to clandestine abortions, which has led to the deaths of over three thousand women in the past twenty-five years (this number is a ...
A new documentary interviews families of Argentinian tobacco farmers and asks the question, “Can Monsanto chemicals permanently alter your child’s genes?” While on vacation in the northern Misiones province of Argentina French journalist, documentary filmmaker ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to provide a three-year $50 billion stand-by agreement (SBA) to Argentina to help boost the Latin American nation out of a currency crisis. The amount is the largest ...
Argentina held talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday as the Latin nation is in need of a $30 billion line of credit from the multinational lender following the weakening peso. Christine Lagarde, ...
On Tuesday, the El Salvador court released a 34-year-old woman who spent 15 years in jail for abortion crimes. Some see the woman’s release as a sign of abortion laws worldwide becoming increasingly sympathetic to ...
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