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Radical Democracy Is Resurgent in Latin America. How Will the US Respond?

5Jan

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Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela

Radical Democracy Is Resurgent in Latin America. How Will the US Respond?

Chile's president-elect Gabriel Boric makes a public speech in Santiago, Chile, on December 19, 2021. BY: Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Truthout Chile has become the global capital of resurgent opposition to neoliberalism and resistance to fascism, electing the world’s youngest president, Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student protest leader. Boric, a member of Chile’s congress since 2014 and law school graduate, will lead the country’s first left unity government since the bloody United States-backed military coup which overthrew democratically elected leader Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973 (the “other September 11”). The left’s decisive victory in Chile, with about 55 percent of the vote, came amid a large turnout of women and youth. This included a 1-millio...

American Express Goes on a Buying Spree in Argentina’s Congress

17Dec

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Argentina, USA

American Express Goes on a Buying Spree in Argentina’s Congress

By Juan GraboisI was told that a man by the name of John Doe passed through the offices of Argentine congressmen. He wasn’t carrying heavy bags of cash, but only had an American Express card on him. Doe was a well-groomed and well-dressed U.S. national who came on behalf of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham). He came bearing gifts for several congressmen: airfare, lodging, and entertainment in Washington, D.C. It is a well-known fact that deputies in Third World countries travel to first world countries, especially to the United States, to meet their rich sponsors. The gifts from Doe were well received in several offices.The Argentine congressmen who received these gifts got to enjoy a nice trip to Washington from November 28 to December 4. That is the same week when the Argent...

Argentine GM Wheat Exports Could Be Banned

28Oct

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Argentine GM Wheat Exports Could Be Banned

by: Get our newsletter delivered directly to your inboxI have already subscribed | Do not show this message again The approval of this HB4 seed permit was not based on an adequate investigation of its health and environmental impacts. Prosecutor Fabian Canda asked the Argentine Prosecutor's Office that the marketing permit for HB4, a transgenic seed produced by the company Bioceres, be immediately suspended. Related: New Giant Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina He explained that the approval of this product's permit was not based on an adequate investigation of its health and environmental impacts. Canda also recalled that no other country has approved a genetically modified strain of wheat. Currently, Brazil is the main buyer of Argentine wheat. In 2019, fo...

Argentines Remember the Victims of the ‘Night of the Pencils’

18Sep

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Argentines Remember the Victims of the ‘Night of the Pencils’

On Sept. 16, 1976, ten high school students were kidnapped, tortured, and disappeared by the dictatorship. Forty-five years ago, high school students from La Plata's Colegio Normal 3 were kidnapped by Buenos Aires Police officers as part of a repressive operation known as ‘The Night of the Pencils’. RELATED: Argentina: Interior Minister and Other Top Officials Resign On the night of Sept. 16, 1976, a police and Army Battalion 601 troops operation was launched to capture ten young people aged between 16 and 18, most of whom were members of the Union of Secondary Students (USS). They were demanding a free secondary school transportation ticket. All of them were taken to "Arana", a clandestine detention center where they were tortured for weeks. Years later, documents fo...

Argentine health minister resigns amid vaccine scandal

11Apr

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Argentine health minister resigns amid vaccine scandal

An Argentine government official says President Alberto Fernández has asked his health minister to resign after a well-known journalist said he had been gotten a coronavirus vaccination preferentially after requesting one from the minister Via AP news wire Virus Outbreak Argentina (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) https://buy.tinypass.com/checkout/template/cacheableShow?aid=SEz5CAOYyJ&templateId=OT5K0SE6GQ3U&offerId=fakeOfferId&experienceId=EXEXJ3VLHDAV&iframeId=offer_c9a52706297aa13d372a-0&displayMode=inline President Alberto Fernández asked Argentina's health minister to resign after a well-known local journalist said he had been given a coronavirus vaccination preferentially after requesting one from the minister, ...

Argentina Approves Tax on Millionaires to Fund COVID-19 Recovery

26Jan

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Argentina Approves Tax on Millionaires to Fund COVID-19 Recovery

Argentinian Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sings the national anthem before leading a virtual session of the Argentine Senate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 4, 2020. BY: Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams Lawmakers in Argentina on Friday approved a new one-time levy on the country’s richest citizens to raise money to address the devastating health and economic consequences of the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Senators passed the bill, which imposes a tax of at least 2% on individuals with assets worth more than $2.45 million, by a margin of 42 to 26, Reuters reported Saturday. Government revenue has declined amid the Covid-19 outbreak and resulting lockdown measures, and proponents of the legislation — dubbed the “millionaire’s tax” — hope ...

Argentina Searches for COVID-19 Cases House-to-House

22Jun

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Argentina Searches for COVID-19 Cases House-to-House

The 85 percent of infected people live in either the capital city or the Buenos Aires province. Argentina’s health authorities launched a house-to-house operation to search for close contacts of coronavirus-infected persons in the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, the capital city that is the epicenter of the pandemic in this South American country. RELATED: Argentina: 'Not One Less' Movement Reaches 5 Years of Struggle The Strategic Field Coronavirus Testing Device (DETECTAR), which has been implemented for several weeks in vulnerable neighborhoods, will be extended to the rest of the city. On Saturday, the operation began in Balvarena, Palermo, and Flores, the three neighborhoods with the highest number of infected people according to the latest records. "Door-to-door, we seek...

18May

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Argentina, United Kingdom

El Diego: the Two Lives of Maradona

by TONY MCKENNA Still from “Diego Maradona.” 22 June 1986. A world cup quarter-final is about to play out in the Estadio Azteca stadium at the heart of Mexico City. Under the billowing blue skies and the streaming sunlight the pitch is shadowless and pastel green. The teams line up. The English in white. The Argentinians in blue. As the Argentine anthem plays, the camera moves across the team, before lingering momentarily on the solemn, stormy features of the captain – a small, squat man, a head shorter than his teammates, his dark, handsome features shadowed with determination. Diego. Armando. Maradona. Despite the blue, open vistas of the sky and the high sun, there is a tension in the air, a fo...

Argentina Welcomes Cuban Medical Aid, Slams US Blockade

6May

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Argentina, Cuba

Argentina Welcomes Cuban Medical Aid, Slams US Blockade

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr They acknowledged that during this pandemic, "we will need more medical and nursing personnel." Argentina has invited citizens to sign a proclamation to welcome Cuban medical aid workers and those of any other nationality, and to oppose the United States' (US) campaign against Cuba's policy of solidarity with the world. RELATED: Argentina to Soon Welcome 200 Cuban Doctors for COVID-19 Fight In the letter, signed by the President of Abuelas de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, the political scientist Atilio Borón, the writer Stella Calloni and the actresses Cecilia Roth and Cristina Banega, among others, it is highlighted: "Welcome to Cubans and any other nationality”. The signatories maintained that “the harsh reality of the COVID-19 pande...

5Mar

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Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, C.I.A, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, USA

Will Policy of Destabilizing Latin American Countries Help Trump to be Re-Elected?

By Paul Antonopoulos Global Research, As the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election campaign heats up, there is every chance that Donald Trump can become a one-term president as the popularity of Bernie Sanders increases despite the sabotage within his own Democrat Party against him. There still remains a strong possibility that Sanders can become the next president sitting in the White House. Sanders continues to grow mass appeal, with former Trump White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon even conceding last month that the Democrat candidate is a “populist,” even if it is different to that of Trump’s. Sanders appeals to the impoverished by directing the frustrations of Middle America to the ultrarich who are fighting tooth and nail to bring th...