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In the evening of the 1 September, TV viewers in Argentina were horrified by a scene in which a weapon was pointed at the vice-president of the country, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), and triggered pointing at her face. Although later it was confirmed that the gun was loaded and ready to fire, the bullet failed to fire which was considered a ‘miracle’. In a matter of minutes, the news spread all over the world and condemnation of the assassination attempt and solidarity with Mrs Fernández de Kirchner was expressed by leaders across the globe but there was absolute silence from right-wing politicians in the country. Since then, the very slow investigation has concentrated its efforts on the individual perpetrators and some Nazi-fascist groups that had demonstrated agai...

by: Get our newsletter delivered directly to your inboxI have already subscribed | Do not show this message again The approval of this HB4 seed permit was not based on an adequate investigation of its health and environmental impacts. Prosecutor Fabian Canda asked the Argentine Prosecutor's Office that the marketing permit for HB4, a transgenic seed produced by the company Bioceres, be immediately suspended. Related: New Giant Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina He explained that the approval of this product's permit was not based on an adequate investigation of its health and environmental impacts. Canda also recalled that no other country has approved a genetically modified strain of wheat. Currently, Brazil is the main buyer of Argentine wheat. In 2019, fo...

On Sept. 16, 1976, ten high school students were kidnapped, tortured, and disappeared by the dictatorship. Forty-five years ago, high school students from La Plata's Colegio Normal 3 were kidnapped by Buenos Aires Police officers as part of a repressive operation known as ‘The Night of the Pencils’. RELATED: Argentina: Interior Minister and Other Top Officials Resign On the night of Sept. 16, 1976, a police and Army Battalion 601 troops operation was launched to capture ten young people aged between 16 and 18, most of whom were members of the Union of Secondary Students (USS). They were demanding a free secondary school transportation ticket. All of them were taken to "Arana", a clandestine detention center where they were tortured for weeks. Years later, documents fo...

An Argentine government official says President Alberto Fernández has asked his health minister to resign after a well-known journalist said he had been gotten a coronavirus vaccination preferentially after requesting one from the minister Via AP news wire Virus Outbreak Argentina (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) https://buy.tinypass.com/checkout/template/cacheableShow?aid=SEz5CAOYyJ&templateId=OT5K0SE6GQ3U&offerId=fakeOfferId&experienceId=EXEXJ3VLHDAV&iframeId=offer_c9a52706297aa13d372a-0&displayMode=inline President Alberto Fernández asked Argentina's health minister to resign after a well-known local journalist said he had been given a coronavirus vaccination preferentially after requesting one from the minister, ...

Argentinian Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sings the national anthem before leading a virtual session of the Argentine Senate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 4, 2020. BY: Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams Lawmakers in Argentina on Friday approved a new one-time levy on the country’s richest citizens to raise money to address the devastating health and economic consequences of the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Senators passed the bill, which imposes a tax of at least 2% on individuals with assets worth more than $2.45 million, by a margin of 42 to 26, Reuters reported Saturday. Government revenue has declined amid the Covid-19 outbreak and resulting lockdown measures, and proponents of the legislation — dubbed the “millionaire’s tax” — hope ...

The 85 percent of infected people live in either the capital city or the Buenos Aires province. Argentina’s health authorities launched a house-to-house operation to search for close contacts of coronavirus-infected persons in the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, the capital city that is the epicenter of the pandemic in this South American country. RELATED: Argentina: 'Not One Less' Movement Reaches 5 Years of Struggle The Strategic Field Coronavirus Testing Device (DETECTAR), which has been implemented for several weeks in vulnerable neighborhoods, will be extended to the rest of the city. On Saturday, the operation began in Balvarena, Palermo, and Flores, the three neighborhoods with the highest number of infected people according to the latest records. "Door-to-door, we seek...