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The Japan Times
March 27, 2018
CHICAGO – An Army veteran from Chicago who served two tours in Afghanistan and had been in the U.S. since age 8 has been deported to Mexico because of a 2008 drug-trafficking conviction. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed Monday that Miguel Perez Jr., 39, who had aÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
March 27, 2018
This is how, when important demonstrations were held in 2015 the Southern Cone to protest against violence against women, repeated femicides crystallized. The wave of protests began for the first time on June 3, 2015, in eighty cities in Argentina, and these demonstrations were repeated on June 3 andÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 14, 2018
Argentine standup comedian Malena Pichot. Photograph: Courtesy Malena Pichot. But a shift in public opinion in this traditionally conservative country has forced congress to vote on a bill to change the law later this month. The amendment would allow terminations in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. “At lastÃÂ ...
Xinhua
March 9, 2018
Bilateral negotiations have been going on for nearly 20 years due in large part to obstacles in the automobile sector. The EU has asked for a rapid reduction in import tariffs, sparking protests from auto parts makers, especially in Brazil and Argentina, said the Argentine economist. A final accord would resultÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 8, 2018
Two years ago, two important movements manifested themselves. In Poland women went on strike to stop anti-abortion legislation. They succeeded in getting the government to back down. In Argentina, following police inaction after the rape and murder of a number of women, hundreds of thousands tookÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
Hundreds of women gathered at midnight in Puerta del Sol, in the heart of Madrid, to kick off a day of protests across the country, with about 120 demonstrations ... One protest leader, Jean Enriquez, condemned Mr. Duterte's remarks against women, including one in which he asked troops to shoot femaleÃÂ ...
The Badger Herald
March 7, 2018
This protest, like many others in Argentina, caused the postponement of daily life, as one of the largest roads in Buenos Aires was cordoned off, blocking traffic for miles outside of the city and making navigation within the city that much more difficult. What is notable about the protests not only includes theÃÂ ...
People's World
March 6, 2018
This is the context of the massive labor-led protests against the Macri government that have been ongoing, but reached a high point on February 21 of this year. The February 21 protest was initiated by the transport workers' union (National Federation of Truck Drivers), but quickly supported by most ofÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
February 25, 2018
Last Wednesday's mobilizations were organized by national unions and social movements, including the Trucker Union, Workers' Central Union (CTA), Association of State Workers (ATE) and the Argentine Workers' Central Union (CGT) whose combined membership includes over 5 million people. It was aÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 22, 2018
Thousands of Argentine truck drivers and their supporters paralysed parts of Buenos Aires on Wednesday to protest President Mauricio Macri's austerity measures. "Mister president, don't continue with policies that force the most vulnerable parts of our society - retired people, old people - to go hungry,"ÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
February 15, 2018
Argentina: Unions, Social Movements Renew Protests ... Social movements and unions have gathered to protest against austerity policies implemented by President Mauricio Macri's government. They are demanding a halt to ... Other groups directly affected by layoffs have also joined the protests. AmongÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Map data é2018 Google. Map DataMap data é2018 Google. Map data é2018 Google. Terms of Use ÷ Report a map error. 200 m. By The New York Times. A month after the Parkland shooting, on March 14, thousands of students across the United States participated in a national school walkout to protestà...
Americas Quarterly
February 15, 2018
Out of fears of Mapuche protests, Argentina deployed 1,500 federal and provincial security forces in December for a meeting of G-20 negotiators in Bariloche. Argentina's ... It is unclear whether Argentina's Mapuche have the will, numbers or resources to sustain a Chile-style protest movement. AlreadyÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
February 14, 2018
They are arguably the best-preserved ancient bodies ever found—their eldest, dubbed La Doncella (“the Maiden”), looks as if she had just nodded off to sleep—but their removal and subsequent study and refrigerated display in a museum in Salta, Argentina, engendered protest by some ArgentineÃÂ ...
Agriculture.com
February 13, 2018
Truckers in Argentina endeda strike that had stalled grain exports and agreed to meet with transportation authorities later this month to resolve their differences, the government said on Saturday. Nearly 100 cargo ships were waiting on Friday to load soy and corn from Argentina's main agro-export hub ofÃÂ ...
NBC Chicago
February 12, 2018
Tamimi's middle-of-the-night arrest from her home in December and her pre-trial court appearances, flanked by Israeli guards and looking impassive, have evoked a sense of history on a loop. Another generation of Palestinians seems locked in a cycle of protests and arrests by Israel, three decades afterÃÂ ...
Hyperallergic
February 12, 2018
Argentineans are still reeling from the divisive events following the death of Santiago Maldonado, an activist whose disappearance during an indigenous rights protest in Patagonia last year spurred protests by opposition groups accusing the government of concealing Maldonado's seizure and murder byÃÂ ...
Agriculture.com
February 6, 2018
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A protest by grain transporters in Argentina could leave exporters and crushers operating without soy, corn and wheat, an industry group said on Monday. Owners of trucks protesting for higher freight rates have slowed transport of grains in one of the world's top producersÃÂ ...
Independent Online
February 1, 2018
Buenos Aires, Argentina - Ballet dancers have taken to the streets of Argentina's capital with an open-air performance to protest government funding cuts. About 80 dancers, choreographers, and other workers of the state-funded National Ballet of the Dance lost their jobs in December under governmentÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 30, 2017
Argentina: Opposition Senators Denounce Criminalization of Peaceful Protest ... A block of opposition Argentine senators from the Front for Victory-Justicialist Party, FpV-PJ, have rejected the criminalization of peaceful protests in the country by president Mauricio Macri. RELATED: Argentina: Macri Govt.
teleSUR English
December 28, 2017
Massive demonstrations led by union workers and pensioners broke out in Argentina on Dec. 14 to reject Argentina's President Mauricio Macri proposal for pension reform. On the days leading to Congress' approval, protesters clashed with Argentine security forces that used dogs, rubber coated bulletsÃÂ ...
Havana Times
December 22, 2017
Nevertheless, as reports from the Center for Legal and Social Studies indicate [3], there are alarming threats to basic rights relating to work, education and public protest, which are connected to Cambiemos' neoliberal agenda. Most recently, the protests this week against Argentina's controversial pensionÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
December 22, 2017
Protests in Buenos Aires on 18 December 2017. Image: Javier Valente. Some rights reserved. This article is part of Right to Protest, a partnership project with human rights organisations CELS and INCLO, with support from the ACLU, examining the power of protest and its fundamental role in democraticÃÂ ...
CNNMoney
December 19, 2017
A major pension reform became law in Argentina early Tuesday morning after violent protests rocked the nation's capital, Buenos Aires, on Monday. Rioters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails while police fought back with rubber bullets and tear gas Monday afternoon. More than 160 were injured, includingÃÂ ...
Novinite.com
December 13, 2017
Thousands went out on the streets of Buenos Aires to express their anger over the commercial practices and policies of the world's richest economies, reports BNT. The occasion for the demonstrations was the meeting of the World Trade Organization, which is taking place in Buenos Aires. The protestsÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 13, 2017
The meeting took place as the Mercosur regional bloc is advancing trade talks with the European Union while Brazil and Argentina deepens neoliberal adjustment policies. Confrontations between Argentine police and protesters sparked after "a small group of 50 hooded people, holding stones, bladesÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
The State Workers Association (ATE) of Argentina confirmed today's 24-hour national strike against two years of increasing dismissals in the public sector. ... The ministry is seen as the main government organism in charge of the cuts, and the protest was addressed by several union leaders. ATE GeneralÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 23, 2017
Police officers take aim at demonstrators during pension reform protests in Argentina on December 18. ... In August, Argentine artist Santiago Maldonado disappeared after confrontations broke out between federal security forces and Mapuche activists resisting eviction from land claimed by Benetton.
CNNMoney
December 19, 2017
A major pension reform became law in Argentina early Tuesday morning after violent protests rocked the nation's capital, Buenos Aires, on Monday. Rioters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails while police fought back with rubber bullets and tear gas Monday afternoon. More than 160 were injured, includingÃÂ ...
Novinite.com
December 13, 2017
Thousands went out on the streets of Buenos Aires to express their anger over the commercial practices and policies of the world's richest economies, reports BNT. The occasion for the demonstrations was the meeting of the World Trade Organization, which is taking place in Buenos Aires. The protestsÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 13, 2017
The meeting took place as the Mercosur regional bloc is advancing trade talks with the European Union while Brazil and Argentina deepens neoliberal adjustment policies. Confrontations between Argentine police and protesters sparked after "a small group of 50 hooded people, holding stones, bladesÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 6, 2017
About 4 p.m., the protesters started marching from the Congress to the Plaza de Mayo, blocking the capital's main streets. | Photo: EFE. Previous; Next. Published 6 December 2017. 0. Comments. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Gmail Share to Google+ Share to Pinterest Share toÃÂ ...
Equal Times
December 6, 2017
The suspense surrounding Maldonado's whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word “disappeared” brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the very same ...
International Business Times
December 4, 2017
“Whoever is responsible needs to be held responsible.” Missing Submarine Protest Relatives of Luis Carlos Nolasco, one of the 44 crew members of the missing at sea ARA San Juan submarine, hold portraits of him during a demonstration at an Argentine naval base in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Dec.
BBC News
December 4, 2017
Relatives of crew members of an Argentine submarine which disappeared in the southern Atlantic have criticised the government for giving up the search for survivors. They marched through the streets of the port of Mar del Plata demanding the rescue effort resume. The navy has said there is no longer any ...
teleSUR English
November 26, 2017
Following the murder of a 21-year Mapuche member by Argentine police, the Indigenous community has declared it will continue to fight for its land rights regardless of ... Since the incident, protests led by human rights leaders and Indigenous communities have also been organized around the city.
teleSUR English
November 23, 2017
A recently released study by the Institute of Social, Economic and Citizens Institute found that malnutrition in Argentina has increased from 43 to 48 percent in kids aged 2 to 19. In a country with the third largest economy in Latin America, over 11 million Argentine residents live in poverty. Activist leader ...
Scroll.in
November 20, 2017
The big news: Viacom18 defers Padmavati's release as protests continue, ... Signals from missing Argentine Navy vessel raise hope that 44 on ...
teleSUR English
November 16, 2017
Mapuches of Chile and Argentina Launch Cross-Border March ... after the police arrested him during a protest for Indigenous rights. ... Mapuches from Chile marched in solidarity with their Argentine counterparts in September.
Telegraph.co.uk
November 14, 2017
But despite the pass obviously being forward the try was not disallowed, even in the face of Argentine protests. The reason is that Law 12, ...
PRI
November 14, 2017
Miss Peru contestants say their viral anti-violence protest was only the .... movement that started in Argentina has now made its way to Peru.
teleSUR English
November 9, 2017
Argentine President Mauricio Macri speaks during an interview with ... incited various labor union strikes and protests over the past six months.
NPR
November 3, 2017
PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: The wounds left by Argentina's dark past are easy to ... body was fished out of a river near the scene of the protest.
NPR
November 3, 2017
REEVES: Santiago Maldonado disappeared in Argentina's deep south in Patagonia. He'd been taking part in a protest there by indigenous ...
MercoPress
October 28, 2017
Argentina presented on Thursday a formal protest to the United ... “The Argentine foreign ministry became aware on 24 October that the British ...
The Conversation UK
October 27, 2017
... 1 at a protest for the land rights of the Mapuche, a group of indigenous peoples from ... Some involved are accusing state police of infiltrating their protests. ... Jones Huala, who is currently being held by the Argentine state.
Aljazeera.com
October 22, 2017
The Argentine League for Human Rights has opened a legal case against Macri himself ... Infobae that she no longer believed there was "rule of law" in Argentina. ... Enrique, who has been at every protest in Buenos Aires since ... forces are used by the state to repress internal protests, and these security ...
RT
October 22, 2017
The violence erupted as activists took to the streets of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on Saturday demanding justice for Santiago ...
teleSUR English
October 20, 2017
Macri's government has been plagued with protests by unions and ... Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the former Argentine president who is ...
Democracy Now!
October 20, 2017
Argentina: Thousands Protest as Body Is Found Near Site of Activist's ... Eyewitnesses say Argentine security forces beat and arrested a person ...
