Argentina

International Desk (EFE).- The government of Javier Milei announced Tuesday that it would transform the Human Rights Secretariat into a sub-secretariat, cutting 40% of the organization’s structure and 30% of its staff to reduce public spending. «The Ministry of Justice has determined that the Secretariat of Human Rights will be...

Buenos Aires, (EFE).- An Argentine appeals court confirmed the indictment of former President Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) in a gender-based violence case filed by his former partner, Fabiola Yáñez, moving the former head of state closer to a criminal trial. The ruling, issued Tuesday by the National Criminal and Correction Appeals...

By Natalia Kidd Buenos Aires, Oct. 29 (EFE).- The Association of State Workers (ATE), Argentina’s largest public-sector union, began a 36-hour strike on Tuesday, protesting in Buenos Aires to demand better wages and denounce President Javier Milei’s economic policies. On Tuesday, demonstrators gathered at the Obelisk in the Argentine capital...

Buenos Aires, Feb 2 (EFE). – Almost an hour and a half after the ‘Omnibus Law’ in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies on Friday was approved, new clashes broke out between demonstrators and security forces. On Wednesday and Thursday, during the congressional debate, the demonstrators tried to block the streets...

Buenos Aires, Feb 1 (EFE).- Groups that support soup kitchens in Argentina demonstrated Thursday in front of the Ministry of Human Capital and several supermarkets against the scarce resources available to them since Javier Milei took office, local organizations denounced. Argentina closed 2023 with an inflation of 211.4%, the highest...

Buenos Aires, Jan 31 (EFE). – The protests around the Argentine Congress during the debate on the Omnibus Law, the flagship project of President Javier Milei’s economic policy, ended in a confrontation between demostrators and the police on Wednesday evening. No serious injuries have been reported so far, but EFE...