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Lucía Cholakian Herrera

Lucía Cholakian Herrera

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Mothers of Plaza de Mayo reject return of the ‘death flight’ plane

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association issued a statement rejecting the return of the  ‘death flight’ plane which was used by the last...

04.06.2023 30

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#NiUnaMenos eight years on: What’s next for Argentine feminism?

After a series of femicides of teenagers in Argentina, Ni Una Menos, a movement created by Argentine feminists on June 3, 2015, changed the course of...

03.06.2023 40

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Taser gun debate: experts fear abuse of power by the police

Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announced this week the arrival of 60 Taser guns to be used by Buenos Aires City Police. This comes...

01.06.2023 20

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Truth Trial over José León Suárez 1956 executions starts today

The Truth Trial over the José León Suárez executions against militants who were plotting to overthrow Pedro Eugenio Aramburu’s dictatorship will...

01.06.2023 10

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Morning-after pills can now be sold over the counter

The Argentine Health Ministry announced today that Levonorgestrel morning-after pills will no longer require a doctor’s prescription and will be...

01.06.2023 20

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BA City police to start using Tasers in June

Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announced the arrival of 60 Tasers for use by the Buenos Aires City Police, after years of resistance...

29.05.2023 10

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From BRICS to the currency swap: government officials visit China

A group of political officials and representatives is embarking today on a week-long trip to China, where key meetings will be held to address...

28.05.2023 9

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Paco Ignacio Taibo II on myths, essays, politics and borders

Paco Ignacio Taibo II is drinking a can of regular Coke and chain smoking H. Upmann cigarettes in the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) bookstore in...

27.05.2023 20

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Corrientes journalist killed due to her work, union and family claim

On Saturday, journalist Griselda Blanco, 45, was found dead in her Curuzú Cuatiá home in the Corrientes province, over 300 kilometers away from the...

22.05.2023 20

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Jorge Rafael Videla: the dictator who died in jail

It was a chilly early morning in the Marcos Paz penitentiary when Jorge Rafael Videla, the infamous dictator, was found dead in his cell at age 87. He...

17.05.2023 4

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Larreta & Bullrich agree for PRO to back single BA mayor candidate

Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and former PRO President Patricia Bullrich, two presidential primary candidates election within the...

16.05.2023 10

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Brazilian court acquits Argentine actor of sexual assault

Yesterday, Sao Paolo Federal Judge Fernando Toledo Carneiro acquitted Argentine actor Juan Darthés in the trial for sexual assault that started after...

14.05.2023 9

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CFK assassination bid: police seize Milman advisor’s second phone

Federal Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and Prosecutor Carlos Rívolo ordered the confiscation of a second mobile phone belonging to Carolina Gómez...

11.05.2023 20

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Analysis: Lula and Fernández seek salvation in regional integration

Presidents Alberto Fernández and Lula da Silva met for nearly four hours in a private bilateral meeting in Brasilia yesterday. While their encounter...

03.05.2023 70

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46 years of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

Once a week, come rain or shine, a group of Mothers gathers in a Buenos Aires square and walks. They wear white handkerchiefs tied to their heads,...

30.04.2023 60

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Paraguayans head to the polls in decisive elections

Paraguayan voters head to the polls today to elect its next president, Congress representatives, governors, and local authorities. The elected...

30.04.2023 60

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Armenian organizations march on 108th genocide anniversary

The Armenian community in Argentina will march today to commemorate the 108th Armenian genocide anniversary. The Inter-Youth Bureau of the Armenian...

24.04.2023 60

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CFK’s would-be assassin to stand trial on child porn charges

Two prosecutors are seeking to send Fernando Sabag Montiel to trial in two cases: the attempted assassination of Vice President Cristina Fernández de...

20.04.2023 70

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Government launches website following dictatorship trials in real time

The Secretariat of Human Rights has launched its website Crimes Against Humanity with information on all the cases against those involved in...

17.04.2023 60

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Río Negro and Neuquen provincial elections kick off Argentina’s election cycle

Regional election polls have opened in the Patagonian provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, marking the start of Argentina’s electoral cycle. Both...

16.04.2023 70

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Larreta announces measures to ease BA rental market

Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announced new rental policies aimed at landlords and tenants that include credit access, tax relief...

13.04.2023 70

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Massa embarks on four-day trip to drum up U.S. support

Economy Minister Sergio Massa will embark today on a four-day trip to the United States, participating in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and...

12.04.2023 100

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“Juntos por el Cambio is more united than ever,” says Larreta

After yesterday’s public disagreement over his decision to change the voting system in Buenos Aires city, its Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta said...

11.04.2023 70

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200 days to the election: the potential presidential candidates so far

There are 199 days to go until Argentina’s general elections. With some of the nation’s most influential leaders refusing to say yet whether...

06.04.2023 70

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Indigenous survivor Rosa Grilo dies at 115

Rosa Grilo, a 115-year-old Qom woman who survived the Napalpí massacre, died today in Chaco province.  She was —as far as researchers know— the...

06.04.2023 70

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Malvinas and the unknown soldiers

It was thirty years after the 1982 Malvinas war that, after receiving a petition signed by several families, then-president Cristina Fernández de...

03.04.2023 60

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Analysis: domestic work is the most feminized job in Argentina

For many years in Argentina, the single largest occupation for women was domestic work. Since the pandemic, it’s fallen to second place, after sales...

30.03.2023 70

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Fernández and Biden to meet in Oval Office this afternoon

President Alberto Fernández and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden will hold a bilateral meeting today in the White House’s Oval Office at 2.40 p.m....

29.03.2023 100

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Football: Argentina beats Curaçao 7-0 in friendly

Argentina’s national football team beat Curaçao 7-0 last night in a match in the Madre de Ciudades Stadium in Santiago del Estero. It was the...

29.03.2023 70

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This dictatorship torturer’s daughter became an advocate for memory

Analía Kalinec spent the day before her fortieth birthday sitting in a judicial mediation against her father. It was October 2019, and they hadn’t...

29.03.2023 70

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Liberal economist Espert seeks coalition with Juntos por el Cambio

Liberal economist and Buenos Aires provincial deputy José Luis Espert has announced that he is in talks with members of opposition coalition Juntos...

28.03.2023 70

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White House confirms Biden-Fernández meeting

President Alberto Fernández will travel to the United States today and is expected to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday.  The White...

26.03.2023 70

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This dictatorship torturer’s daughter became an advocate for memory

Analía Kalinec spent the day before her fortieth birthday sitting in a judicial mediation against her father. It was October 2019, and they hadn’t...

24.03.2023 70

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Analysis: The shadow of denialism, 40 years into our democracy

It has been 47 years since Argentina’s armed forces staged a coup against the government of Isabel Peron. The dictatorship’s dark history has been...

24.03.2023 70

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Social movements start three-day camp against welfare cuts

Social movement Unidad Piquetera will start a three-day protest camp outside the Social Development Ministry on Monday afternoon, demanding jobs,...

13.03.2023 60

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Argentinian women dictatorship survivors’ exhibit opens at OAS HQ in D.C

The 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina disappeared 30,000 people, kidnapped more than 500 babies born in captivity, and devastated the...

08.03.2023 70

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Rosario violence: opposition calls for fewer phones in jail, more border cops

Opposition leaders are calling for a crackdown on cellphones in prisons, more border police, and the relocation of the national Security Ministry to...

07.03.2023 70

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Fury in Rosario: shooting kills child & hospitalizes 3 other kids

Residents of the city of Rosario have reacted with fury after an unidentified gunman shot dead 12-year-old Máximo Geres and injured three other...

06.03.2023 70

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Messi’s in-laws’ shop riddled with bullets

“Messi, we’re waiting for you,” reads a handwritten note left outside a shop belonging to Lionel Messi’s in-laws in Rosario city, Santa Fe. ...

02.03.2023 60

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Argentina terminates agreement with the UK over Malvinas

Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero told his UK counterpart James Cleverly today that Argentina will terminate the “Foradori-Duncan” treaty that...

02.03.2023 50

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Fernández defends CFK & government in fiery Congress speech

Amid shouts, insults and standing ovations, President Alberto Fernández launched 2023’s congressional sessions with a lengthy and at times...

01.03.2023 60

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Lucía Pérez death: defense requests acquittal in second trial

Lawyers for the two men on trial over the death of Lucía Pérez called for the defendants to be acquitted at Mar del Plata Criminal Court 2 on...

01.03.2023 70

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Summer reads: We asked Argentine authors what they can’t put down

The summer holiday is a time for reading – especially in Argentina, where many businesses shut down, thermometer readings peak, and anyone who knows...

28.02.2023 50

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Prosecution and defense appeal Baez Sosa sentence

The prosecution and the defense in the Fernando Báez Sosa murder case have submitted appeals to the verdict. On February 6, Máximo Thomsen, Ciro...

28.02.2023 60

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Argentina opens Embassy in Bangladesh

Drinking mate and eating alfajores, Argentina’s traditional pastries, the Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero formally opened the...

27.02.2023 70

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Disappeared police officer’s family calls for justice: ‘Where’s Arshak?’

Arshak Karhanyan has been missing since February 24, 2019.  A Metropolitan Police Officer taking the day off, little is known about what happened on...

24.02.2023 70

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Larreta officially launches presidential bid

City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta launched his presidential campaign on social media last night and made it official with a video at midday,...

23.02.2023 70

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Government loses power following Senate split

Four senators announced Wednesday that they would break away from the ruling coalition Frente de Todos and form their own bloc, Unidad Federal...

23.02.2023 70

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Book ends? Paper price hikes put book industry at risk

As Tamara Ceferatti arrived back in the city after two weeks on holiday, she sat to update the prices at her bookshop. Stunned, she noticed that all...

20.02.2023 60

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Frente de Todxs political working group focuses on CFK

Following much anticipation, 33 representatives from Argentine provincial governments, congressmembers, workers’ unions and activists met last night...

17.02.2023 70

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