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RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Justice Nabs Another Dictatorship Official
The Chilean Supreme Court's decision to strip former dictator Augusto Pinochet's immunity from prosecution, officially announced Tuesday, coincides with the arrest of retired Argentinean army officer Jorge Olivera in Italy, accused of human rights abuses committed during his country's last dictatorship (1976-1983).ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Putting the Foreign Debt Back on the Agenda
Although Argentina's bulky foreign debt has a heavy impact on the most diverse sectors of society, it hardly figures on the government agenda, nor is it listed by opinion poll respondents as one of their most pressing concerns.DEVELOPMENT-LATAM: Jews and the Myth of Prosperity
Jewish families living in ramshackle houses in the slums, their elderly and children travelling two hours by bus to reach free kitchens, and young adults desperately searching for work are true-to-life conditions that belie the myth of this community's wealth in Latin America.HEALTH-ARGENTINA: Rene Favaloro’s Broken Heart
The suicide of internationally renowned heart surgeon René Favaloro, the creator of the coronary by-pass technique, unleashed a debate in Argentina on the thankless task of private foundations that serve the public and depend on government assistance which sometimes never arrives.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Kidnap Cases Not a Military Court Issue
Argentina's Supreme Court denied a controversial military court petition Thursday that claimed jurisdiction over cases involving the illegal appropriation of minors that occurred during the country's last dictatorship (1976- 1983), proceedings affecting at least nine former top military officials./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/LITERATURE-ARGENTINA: Filloy, A Centenarian Master
Death has a tendency to boost the fame of artists, especially if it comes at a young age. This may be why Argentina's Juan Filloy - known by many as "the hidden writer" because he lived outside intellectual circles - stretched his own life to nearly 106 years.LABOUR-ARGENTINA: Bad News Strikes Again, Despite Gov’t Efforts
Argentina's Labour minister Alberto Flamarique, who earlier this year spearheaded the process to loosen labour standards, acknowledged that unemployment had risen from 13.8 percent last October to 15.4 percent in May.MEDIA-ARGENTINA: Investigative Reporting Competes with Judiciary
The media, especially investigative journalism programmes on TV, are seen by the Argentine public as the most effective weapon today against corruption, while the judiciary's already battered image continues to slide.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Anniversary Strengthens Fight against Impunity
Families and friends of the 86 victims of the 1994 bomb attack against a Jewish association in the Argentinean capital have formed yet another link in the long chain of groups arising to demand justice, even thoug it increasingly appears to be unattainable.ARGENTINA: Political Prisoners Call Off 46-Day Hunger Strike
A group of leftist activists in prison since 1989 in Argentina for a bloody assault on a military garrison called off a 46-day hunger strike after the government agreed to a review of their cases, which were plagued with irregularities according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)./CORRECTED REPEAT/POLITICS-ARGENTINA: Women Left Out of Capital’s New Gov’t
The mayor-elect of the Argentine capital, Aníbal Ibarra, announced the names of his 11 municipal ministers this week - and there was not one woman among them despite pressure from the feminist movement.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: Women Left Out of Capital’s New Gov’t
The mayor-elect of the Argentine capital, Aníbal Ibarra, announced the names of his 11 municipal ministers this week - and there was not one woman among them despite pressure from the feminist movement.ARGENTINA: No Consensus on Chilean-Style Human Rights Panel
The Argentine government praised a military initiative aimed at cooperating in the search for the truth about the "disappeared" in a dialogue similar to talks held by a human rights panel in Chile.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Dismay Over Former Army ‘Fund-Raiser’s’ Release
An Argentine businessman kidnapped in the 1970s expressed dismay Friday over a court decision to release former military intelligence agent Leandro Sánchez Reisse, a member of a band that collected funds for dictatorships in Latin America through illegal activities like kidnapping.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Minors Exploited in Sweat Shops, Brothels
Argentina's justice system discovered some 200 adolescent girls -- mainly Paraguayan immigrants -- sexually exploited in brothels in the province of Buenos Aires, just 10 days after 40 Bolivian minors were found working in virtual slavery conditions in a clandestine textile factory.CULTURE-ARGENTINA: Pop Star’s Death Keeps Market Churning
Argentina's entertainment industry, able to churn out stars as if they were assembly-line goods, in a matter of months turned the unknown Rodrigo into a chart-topping sensation, a singing career that ended when the 27-year-old died in an auto accident last weekend.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Attacks on Immigrants – Racism or Real Estate?
The boom of upscale gated communities on the northern edge of the Argentine capital has a dark side: poor Bolivian families living in the area have become the targets of a wave of attacks by a criminal ring apparently attempting to frighten them off their property, the value of which is steadily rising.COMMUNICATIONS-ARGENTINA: Paper Gives Homeless Take on News
For the past year, homeless men and women in the capital of Argentina have been producing and selling a newspaper, with the help of professional journalists and church group volunteers.HEALTH-ARGENTINA: Women to Enjoy Free Access to Birth Control
The city legislature of the capital of Argentina approved a controversial law aimed at preventing unwanted pregnancies and deaths from botched abortions, in a country where an estimated 1,300 are practiced daily despite the fact that terminating a pregnancy is illegal.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Prisoners Use Hunger Strike to Press for Appeal
Twelve Argentines incarcerated since 1989 for attacking a military barracks have been engaged in a hunger strike for the last 23 days, seeking to pressure authorities to comply with Organisation of American States (OAS) recommendations that they be allowed to appeal their sentences.RIGHTS-SOUTH AMERICA: Chipping Away at Impunity at Varying Speeds
The historic accord signed last week in Chile enabling the clarification of the fate of some 1,200 "disappeared" highlighted the fact that the Southern Cone countries are moving at different speeds with respect to human rights cases pending since the end of the de facto regimes that ruled the region in the 1970s and 1980s.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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