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Argentina’s riot police clash with protesters in capital’s streets over president Javier Milei’s reforms
6 months, 1 week ago

Argentina’s riot police clash with protesters in capital’s streets over president Javier Milei’s reforms

The Independent  

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In progressive Argentina, the LGBTQ+ community says President Milei has turned back the clock
7 months, 1 week ago

In progressive Argentina, the LGBTQ+ community says President Milei has turned back the clock

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — When Luana Salva got her first formal job after years of prostitution, she was ecstatic. Yet just months after Salva got her first paycheck, right-wing President Javier Milei entered office and began slashing public spending as part of his state overhaul to solve Argentina’s worst economic crisis in two decades. Since drawing attention as a brash …

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Argentina labor unions’ 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Argentina labor unions’ 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and halted key bus, rail and subway lines. Milei posted a photo on Instagram holding up a soccer jersey emblazoned with the …

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Labor unions’ 1-day strike in Argentina paralyzes daily life
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Labor unions’ 1-day strike in Argentina paralyzes daily life

LA Times  

The outside of Constitution Station is empty of traffic because of a general strike against the reforms of President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, on Thursday. Argentina’s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights …

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Massive protests in Argentina slam Milei’s education cuts
8 months ago

Massive protests in Argentina slam Milei’s education cuts

Al Jazeera  

President Milei ran on a promise of taking a chainsaw to public spending, and continues to defend his approach. Students and university professors were joined by the country’s powerful trade unions and opposition political parties as hundreds of thousands rallied on Tuesday against the effect of President Javier Milei’s radical austerity measures on public universities. Milei had brandished a chainsaw …

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Argentina protesters march against Milei’s public university cuts
8 months ago

Argentina protesters march against Milei’s public university cuts

Al Jazeera  

Hundreds of thousands of Argentines have taken to the streets to voice outrage at cuts to higher public education under budget-slashing President Javier Milei, protest organisers say. Joined by professors, parents and alumni from the 57 state-run universities in the economic crisis-riddled South American country, students rose up on Tuesday “in defence of free public university education”, they said. Labour …

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With public universities under threat, massive protests against austerity shake Argentina
8 months ago

With public universities under threat, massive protests against austerity shake Argentina

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Raising their textbooks and diplomas and singing the national anthem, hundreds of thousands of Argentines filled the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities on Tuesday to demand increased funding for the country’s public universities, in an outpouring of anger at libertarian President Javier Milei’s harsh austerity measures. A veterinary student Agustina Aguirre holds a sign …

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Facing historic shifts, Latin American women bathe streets in purple on International Women’s Day
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Facing historic shifts, Latin American women bathe streets in purple on International Women’s Day

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Cities across Latin America were cloaked in purple Friday as hundreds of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Women’s Day, coming at a moment of change in a region marred by soaring levels of violence against women. We keep getting murdered.” For many in the march, Mexico’s upcoming June 2 presidential election inspires hope that things …

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Argentinian court overturns Milei's labor rules, in a blow to his reform plans
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Argentinian court overturns Milei's labor rules, in a blow to his reform plans

The Hindu  

An Argentine court on Tuesday overturned labour rules proposed by President Javier Milei that would make it easier to fire workers, in a new blow to the leader's efforts to shake up regulations that he says have hampered the country's struggling economy. The appeals court already temporarily suspended the incoming President's new regulations in early January after a legal challenge …

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Argentinian court overturns Milei’s labor rules, in a blow to his reform plans
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Argentinian court overturns Milei’s labor rules, in a blow to his reform plans

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine court on Tuesday overturned labor rules proposed by President Javier Milei that would make it easier to fire workers, in a new blow to the leader’s efforts to shake up regulations that he says have hampered the country’s struggling economy. The appeals court already temporarily suspended the incoming president’s new regulations in early January …

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Argentina’s unions take to the streets to protest president’s cutbacks, deregulation and austerity
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Argentina’s unions take to the streets to protest president’s cutbacks, deregulation and austerity

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Thousands of union members and activists took to the streets of Argentina’s capital Wednesday to protest a decree from President Javier Milei that imposes sweeping deregulation and austerity measures meant to revive the country’s struggling economy. Argentine labor activists question whether Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist who has long railed against the country’s “political caste,” can impose …

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What to know about Argentina's deregulation protests
1 year ago

What to know about Argentina's deregulation protests

NPR  

What to know about Argentina's deregulation protests Argentina's new president was inaugurated less than two weeks ago. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: This week the new president of Argentina, Javier Milei, deregulated an enormous swath of his country's economy. ARONCZYK: Now, because many of these changes were done by executive order - basically, president's choice - it's quite likely that some of …

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Argentina’s president announces economy deregulation as thousands protest against austerity
1 year ago

Argentina’s president announces economy deregulation as thousands protest against austerity

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — President Javier Milei announced sweeping initiatives Wednesday to transform Argentina’s struggling economy, including easing government regulation and allowing privatization of state-run industries as a way to boost exports and investment. Argentina’s government cut transportation and energy subsidies and devaluated the peso by 50% as part of shock measures new President Javier Milei says are needed to …

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Victims of Argentina’s dictatorship see step backward in Milei’s presidency
1 year ago

Victims of Argentina’s dictatorship see step backward in Milei’s presidency

Al Jazeera  

Buenos Aires, Argentina – At noon on January 12, 1977, soldiers burst into Alicia Partnoy’s home, tore her away from her 18-month-old daughter and threw her in the back of a truck. Revisionist history Since Argentina’s return to democracy four decades ago, human rights activists have fought to preserve the history of the dictatorship and hold its perpetrators accountable. A …

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