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30May

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'Trial is Political Persecution': Argentine Ex-President

NOVANEWS Cristina Fernandez Kirchner (L) and Alberto Fernandez at the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 31, 2008. | Photo: Reuters Argentina's former president Cristina Fernandez says trial against her is a smokescreen for country's economic crisis. Argentina's Former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) said that the trial against her beginning Tuesday is a political "smokescreen" and a new act of political lawfare President Mauricio Macri's administration is using to divert attention away from the nation's two-year economic crisis. Ex-Argentine Leader Cristina Fernandez Announces VP Candidacy Via Twitter, CFK expressed her disagreement over the legal case against her for alleged corruption during her presidential tenu...

24Apr

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Argentina: Evo Morales Meets Macri to Discuss Bilateral Ties

NOVANEWS President of Argentina Mauricio Macri shakes hands with his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales during a joint press conference held on Monday at the Casa Rosada, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | Photo: EFE Bolivia and Argentina presidents meet Monday despite major political and ideological disagreements on regional and international topics. After several failed attempts to score a meeting between the two heads of state, President of Bolivia Evo Morales and his Argentine counterpart Mauricio Macri will finally meet Monday in Buenos Aires. RELATED: Bolivian Constitution To Recognize 3 New Indigenous Languages Despite strong political disagreements, the two presidents will hold meetings covering health agreements, gas contracts, the delivery of military aircra...

10Apr

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Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers’ Cooperatives

NOVANEWS By Carolina de Assis Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas At the end of 2001, Argentina’s political and economic crisis was the main theme in Latin American news coverage. The economic recession that culminated in intense popular protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rúa also fostered a peculiar phenomenon: that of companies recuperated by their workers. Since then, the formation of workers’ cooperatives to recuperate companies about to close their doors or which have already declared bankruptcy has occurred more frequently in the country, especially in the textile and metalworking sectors. However, in the last two years and for the first time, media outlets were the majority of companies recuperated in Argentina in the period, according...

29Dec

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Does the Nazi regime Have “A Patagonia Project” in Argentina?

Does Israel Have “A Patagonia Project” in Argentina? By Thierry Meyssan Votairenet.org The Argentinian authorities are wondering about the massive purchase of land in Patagonia by a British billionaire, and the “holidays” that tens of thousands of Israëli soldiers are enjoying on his property. In the 19th century, the British government were undecided as to where they should settle Israel – either in what is now Uganda, in Argentina or in Palestine. In fact, Argentina was at that time controlled by the United Kingdom and, on the initiative of French baron Maurice de Hirsch, had become a land of refuge for Jews who were fleeing the pogroms in central Europe. In the 20th century, after the 1955 military coup d’Etat against democratically elected President General Juan Perón [and su...

12Aug

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Peru Forced Sterilizations Victims Oppose Fujimori Pardon

NOVANEWS Protests against the Fujimoris. | Photo: EFE By Neil Giardino Human rights activists and victims of forced sterilizations in Peru under former president Alberto Fujimori are expressing outrage over the possibility of his pardon by current Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. “They’d be mocking the people and mocking Peru, because (Fujimori) has committed crimes,” said Obdulia Guevara, Director of the Association of Women of Huancabamba, a group representing victims of forced sterilizations. More than 200,000 mostly poor, Indigenous Quechua-speaking women in Peru are said to have been forcefully sterilized between 1996 and 2000 under Fujimori, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for unrelated human rights violations. During his 2016 campaign Kuczynski sai...

9Aug

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Mothers of Plaza de Mayo: Maldonado Victim of ‘State Violence’

NOVANEWS teleSUR The Grandmothers and Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have blamed the Argentine government for the disappearance of Santiago Maldonado, an activist who disappeared after a military police raid on a Mapuche community Aug. 1. The award-winning human rights group say Maldonado was a victim of “institutional state violence” and demand President Mauricio Macri recovers the activist alive. “The Argentine community knows we have a disappearance in the democracy of Mr. Macri.” Estela de Carlotto, president of the Grandmothers and Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, said at a press conference. The organization said it will occupy the Plaza de Mayo on Friday to pressure the government to deliver Maldonado. Argentina’s Center for Legal and Social Studies and the Permanent Human Rights As...