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ARGENTINA: University Opens Doors to the World
The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) is the alma mater of four of Argentina’s five Nobel Prize winners. It is regarded as one of Latin America’s most prestigious universities, and thousands of young foreign students are entering its halls of learning.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: The Same Old Faces
Continuity is the name of the game in the cabinet that will accompany Cristina Fernández when she is sworn in as president of Argentina on Dec. 10, succeeding her husband, President Néstor Kirchner.LATIN AMERICA: Journey to Bring Big Screen to Small Towns
A young Argentine couple will set out from this capital city in December on an overland journey through 12 Latin American countries, as far as Mexico, taking their country’s films to small towns in rural areas, with backing from the state and civil society organisations.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Identifying the Remains of the “Disappeared”
With backing from the state, a non-profit scientific organisation in Argentina has launched a mass campaign to collect blood samples from the families of people who fell victims to forced disappearance during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, in order to identify the remains of some 600 people and create a database.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Prisons of Death
A riot and subsequent fire in an overcrowded prison in northern Argentina left at least 33 inmates dead and a dozen injured. While the authorities are investigating the causes of the violence, the tension among inmates, families demanding information, and prison officials continues to rise.
ELECTIONS-ARGENTINA: Cristina’s Turn
For anyone close to Argentine President Néstor Kirchner, it's almost impossible to talk about him without mentioning his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was elected as his successor Sunday. Although they have very different personalities, they are like two branches of the same tree - their mutual political platform.ELECTIONS-ARGENTINA: President Kirchner’s Legacy, Pending Challenges
When Néstor Kirchner took over the presidency in 2003, Argentina was in a state of collapse. He managed to establish a model of economic growth that brought down the soaring unemployment and poverty rates. But whoever succeeds him in December will still have challenges to face.
ELECTIONS-ARGENTINA: Cristina’s Low-Income Voter Support Base
Although Argentine First Lady Cristina Fernández is a well-heeled lawyer with an impressive track record as a politician, the front-runner for Sunday’s presidential elections is not favoured by her peers. Instead, her main support comes from lower income sectors, analysts say.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Tortured Labour, Stolen Newborns
"Torture with the electric prod when she was close to term induced accelerated labour," says the report "Maternidades Clandestinas" (Motherhood in Clandestine Prisons), which tells the stories of dozens of women illegally imprisoned during Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship.ARGENTINA: Political Parties – An Endangered Species
Political parties are seeing their influence wane in many countries, say analysts. But in Argentina, the trend has become so acute that in the Oct. 28 presidential elections it will be difficult to even recognise the two parties that governed Argentina for much of the 20th century.ARGENTINA: Survivors, Activists Disappointed Over Human Rights Trial
The first trial for the crimes against humanity committed in Argentina’s Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA) opened Thursday in the Argentine capital. But survivors of the notorious torture centre, where at least 5,000 political prisoners were held at some point during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, are not celebrating.
ENVIRONMENT: Latin America Has Turned Its Back on the Sea
Latin America and the Caribbean have as much land territory as marine area. But while more than 10 percent of the land is protected, not even one percent of the sea is.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Priest’s Life Sentence Draws Widespread Praise
The life sentence handed down to former police chaplain Christian Von Wernich, a symbol of the Argentine Catholic Church’s complicity with the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, was described Wednesday by Argentine President Nestor Kirchner as "a good example for the world."
Latin America Has Turned Its Back on the Sea
The seas of Latin America and the Caribbean, the most productive in the world, are left outside the mechanisms for conservation of protected areas.LATIN AMERICA: The Rights of Native People Living in Nature Reserves
Far from being uninhabited places where nature holds sway, the vast majority of Latin America’s protected areas are places where people live, so a balance has to be found between conservation goals and the need to reduce poverty.LATIN AMERICA: Nine Roads Through the Virgin Wilderness
In the name of development and integration, roads, bridges, dams, gas pipelines, ports and other infrastructure works are expanding in South America. But many of the projects are trampling roughshod over protected areas that preserve unique ecosystems and vulnerable native cultures.ENVIRONMENT: Conservation Expands in Latin America
In the past 10 years the size of protected areas in Latin America has nearly doubled and the participation of local communities in their preservation and management has sharply increased, says a regional study provided exclusively to Tierramérica.ENVIRONMENT-LATIN AMERICA: Unsustainable Development
Latin America is blessed with the greatest biodiversity on the planet, but its model of economic development, based on intensive exploitation and export of natural resources, destroys ecosystems and even protected areas, while governments do nothing to halt the despoliation.
Conservation Expands in Latin America
One park ranger for every 30,000 hectares is the Latin American average that best demonstrates the lack of resources earmarked for conservation, though the total protected area is on the rise.ARGENTINA: Gay World Cup Tries to Level the Playing Field
For the first time in its 10-year championship, the gay football World Cup is being held in Latin America, with teams from more than 20 countries hosted by Argentina this week.ELECTIONS-ARGENTINA: A Clear Run for Cristina Fernandez
Even though many survey respondents say they will not vote for a woman in the Argentine presidential elections, Senator Cristina Fernández appears to have a clear run to succeed her husband, Néstor Kirchner, in the top job, analysts say.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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