Right to abortion is one step closer to becoming law in Argentina
President Alberto Fernández sent the bill to legalize abortion to the National Congress for consideration on November 17
Argentinians commemorate the 44th anniversary of the Night of the Pencils
The night of September 16, 1976, was one of the bloodiest night of the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina, when a group of high school students were kidnapped and tortured by the state security forces
The resistance of Senegalese street vendors
Journalist Lucia Sabini Fraga dialogues with Senegalese street vendors in Argentina and Barcelona who resist state repression and struggle to survive amid the pandemic
In Buenos Aires, there is no political will to address problems that we, the women, face, says Ofelia Fernández
The Buenos Aires legislator and women’s rights activist, Ofelia Fernández, expressed about the need to create a Ministry of Gender, Women and Diversity in the city of Buenos Aires
Where is Facundo Astudillo? The evidence points to involvement of Buenos Aires police
Two and a half months after the disappearance of Facundo Astudillo, the justice investigates a possible forced disappearance and international organizations like the UN are pressuring the Argentine state to give responses
18 year after assassination of Maxi and Darío in Argentina, the struggle intensifies!
In 2002, Darío Santillán and Maximiliano Kosteki were assassinated in the entrance to the Avellaneda station following brutal repression by the Buenos Aires province police to a mobilization demanding salary increases, subsidies for unemployed and food for community kitchens.
Activist who denounced lack of water in poor neighborhoods in Buenos Aires died of coronavirus
Ramona Medina was hospitalized and connected to a respirator after she tested positive for coronavirus. There are more than 1,000 confirmed cases in Buenos Aires’ poor neighborhoods
Thousands protest against IMF in Argentina
The protest was organized ahead of a visit by an IMF delegation on February 12 to renegotiate Argentina’s USD 44 billion IMF debt.
Argentina mobilizes against the visit of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro
Under the slogan of “Your hatred is not welcome here”, a massive mobilization will be carried out in Buenos Aires to reject Bolsonaro’s visit to Argentina as well as his fascist politics.
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