Argentina’s Milei faces biggest protest yet as students march over budget cuts
Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities, the biggest protest yet against President Javier Milei’s painful austerity measures. The demonstrations are the latest example of rising tension over spending cuts that are helping undo […]
“Big Brother”: Reboot of Buenos Aires facial recognition plan fuels privacy fears
DAVID FELIBA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that NGOs fear a controversial facial recognition system – dubbed Buenos Aires’ Big Brother – could be revived, threatening rights…
Argentine court blames Iran and Hezbollah for deadly 1994 Jewish centre bombing
Buenos Aires, Argentina AP Argentina’s highest criminal court reported a new development Thursday in the elusive quest for justice in the deadliest attack in the country’s history – the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre headquarters – concluding Iran had planned the attack and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group had executed the plans. In a ruling obtained […]
A bomb destroyed a Jewish community centre in Argentina in 1994. What has happened since?
Buenos Aires, Argentina AP On 18th July, 1994, an explosion destroyed the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association, a Jewish community centre. The worst such attack in the history of Argentina left 85 dead and more than 300 injured. Official reports established that the attack on the center, known by its Spanish initials […]
First protests in Argentina as groups react to Milei austerity plan
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaReuters Thousands of people took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Wednesday to protest against the government’s economic shock measures, in the first real test for Argentina’s new libertarian president, Javier Milei. Milei, who took office earlier this month on a promise to slash public spending, has announced sweeping plans to reform […]
Argentines hopeful, nervous over “leap into the void” with Milei
Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters Argentines expressed a mixture of ecstasy and trepidation on Monday after libertarian outsider Javier Milei, pledging radical fixes to the economy, swept to power with an election win over Peronist government rival Sergio Massa. Milei, who will take office on 10th December, marks a major direction change for Argentina, which is […]
Argentina voting closes with economic crisis driving radical outsider
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaReuters Argentines flocked to the polls on Sunday to vote in a tense national election where a far-right libertarian leads the race for the presidency, a major potential shift in the political landscape due to fallout from the country’s worst economic crisis in two decades. Around the South American country voters cast their […]
Buenos Aires central square becomes night-time soup kitchen as poverty hits 40 per cent
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaReuters Argentina’s historic Plaza de Mayo square in the centre of Buenos Aires, where crowds often gather to celebrate or protest, has become the scene for a regular silent nighttime vigil: growing numbers of people in poverty looking for a hot meal. The South American country is battling annual inflation of 124 per […]
Argentine far-right outsider Javier Milei takes shock lead in primary vote
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaReuters Argentine voters punished the country’s two main political forces in a primary election on Sunday, pushing a rock-singing libertarian outsider candidate into first place in a huge shake-up in the race towards presidential elections in October. With 65 per cent of ballots counted, far-right libertarian economist Javier Milei had 32.2 per cent […]
“Zero capacity to save”: Argentines buckle as inflation tops 104 per cent
Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters Argentina’s annual inflation rate soared to 104.3 per cent in March, the official statistics agency said on Friday, one of the highest rates in the world, straining people’s wallets and stoking a cost-of-living crisis that has pushed up poverty. The inflation reading for the month came in at 7.7 per cent, […]