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JURIST (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
[JURIST] Argentina's Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill that would decriminalize defamation, bringing the government's policies more in line with the American Convention on Human Rights and garnering praise from international human rights groups. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner proposed the bill in September, but the Senate must pass the bill before it can become law. The legislation...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Palestinians will not launch a new uprising against Israel despite their frustration at the deadlock in US-sponsored peace efforts, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday. Israel has rejected US calls to freeze settlements in the West Bank, and Abbas - eyeing the internal challenge from Hamas - has refused to yield on this core demand and revive negotiations. But Abbas made clear that Palestinians...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner on Monday urged the United States to "do more" to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as she held talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas. "The United States could do more than it is doing" to relaunch negotiations between the two sides, Kirchner told a joint press conference with Abbas in Buenos Aires. "We cannot ignore the role...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas began an official visit to Argentina Sunday that includes a meeting with President Cristina Kirchner to discuss the Middle East, just days after a visit by Israeli President Shimon Peres. "President Abbas' visit brings the opportunity of exchanging views on the Middle East situation, the state of Palestinian-Israeli talks and the possibility of Argentina cooperating...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The presidents of Brazil and Argentina on Wednesday established a mechanism to solve ongoing trade disputes between the two countries. Under the mechanism, the commercial ministers of the two countries will meet every 45 days to address trade conflicts caused by the imposition of non-automatic import licensing by both nations. Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Cristina Fernandez de...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and his Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner said on Wednesday that they would not recognize the results of the elections to be organized by the post-coup de facto government in Honduras. The two had a working meeting in Brasilia and issued a joint statement afterward. Da Silva and Kirchner said that Jose Manuel Zelaya, the Honduran president ousted...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The presidents of Brazil and Argentina, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, reaffirmed on Wednesday their concern with the presence of a "military base of extra-regional power in South America," which they consider as an "incompatible situation with the principles of respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States in the region." In a joint...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, will pay an official visit to Brasilia on Wednesday, where she will discuss a solution to the growing commercial differences between both countries with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The trade dispute began late last year, when Argentina began to require non-automatic licensing to a range of Brazilian products, affecting more than 15 percent...
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Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The Wall Street Journal has a revealing article on why Argentina has the largest concentration of psychologists anywhere in the world and why it has a long-standing cultural fascination with psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a set of psychological theories and form of psychotherapy based strongly on the ideas of Freud. Buenos Aires is one of the world centres of psychoanalysis and has been since the...
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Worldfocus (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Argentinian man views the daily newspapers in La Cumbre. Photo: flickr user Adam Jones, phD. The Kirchner era in Argentina has been characterized by mixed signals. First there was Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić, little-known as governor of Santa Cruz until he vaulted into the Argentine presidency in 2003. In a country that endured military coups, an economic [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Argentina has moved closer to removing jail sentences for slander and libel from its penal code. Prompted by the government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , the chamber of deputies passed a reform bill that must now be voted on by the senate. It follows a 2008 Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling that overturned the conviction of journalist Eduardo Kimel for criminal defamation....
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newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The trial of former President of Argentina Reynaldo Bignone has begun in Argentina, according to the BBC . Also on trial are five of his former army officers, including intelligence chief General Santiago Omar Riveros, and a Buenos Aires police commissione. The seven are accused of the kidnapping,torture and murder of 56 people, committed in the Campo de Mayo dentention centre between 1976 and 1978,...
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Stationary Bandit (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes After more than five years of heavy state intervention in the economy, Argentina is again sliding into recession. Double-digit inflation is spiraling north and the government is running out of money. In response, President Cristina Kirchner...
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