Argentina

Mothers Of Argentina’s Disappeared March Against G20

November 30, 2018 Amy Booth, Aljazeera.com Resist! Argentina, G20

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Every Thursday since 1977, a group of women march around the Plaza de Mayo, the square in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, where the presidential palace is located. Their demand? The return of their disappeared children. Tens of thousands of people were forcibly disappeared during Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983). Many have been confirmed dead, the whereabouts of others remain unknown. On Thursday, the group marched again, for the 2,120th time, reiterating their demand as world leaders arrived in the city for the G20 summit. "There are places here where children don't have bread or meat, and the politicians are busy worrying about taking each other's jobs," Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association, said of the upcoming summit.

Argentina Goes Back To The IMF, Opening Floodgates For Neoliberal Intervention And Structural Adjustment

November 17, 2018 Staff, The Tricontinental Educate! Argentina, Capitalism, IMF, Latin America

Argentina. After 15 years of distancing itself from the grip of IMF policies, in May 2018 Argentina went back to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the watch of President Mauricio Macri. Far from Macri’s promise to make Argentina the “supermarket of the world” and attract foreign investment, the negotiations with the IMF deepened Argentina’s crisis. The agreements between Macri and the IMF are part of a political intervention masquerading as economic policy. As long as there is a commitment to repay the massive debt to the IMF, it is international capital that will write Argentina’s economic policies—not the people—regardless of who sits in the presidential office.

Realities And Challenges Of Recuperated Workplaces In Argentina

November 15, 2018 By Ricardo Vaz, Mronline.org Create! Argentina, Class Struggle, New Economy, Social Movements, Workers

Facultad Abierta (Open School) is something that in Latin America is usually known as a University Extension, understood as the university function that is dedicated to the community. Usually these have to do with cultural aspects, courses, workshops, and this issue has also been commodified recently. We started the programme in 2002. In the School of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos Aires we set up a tiny extension unit to work with social movements, popular movements, that were flourishing at the time, among them the recuperated workplaces. We quickly turned to the subject of worker self-management, or workers’ control, on one hand doing research, and on the other taking part in the processes, trying to support the organizations that emerged.

Unions Bring Argentina to a Standstill As Macri Meets Bankers

September 28, 2018 Telesur. Resist! Argentina, Austerity, Finance and the Economy, Labor

On Tuesday at midnight, Argentina’s General Confederation of Workers (CGT) began its 24-hour general strike against Mauricio Macri’s austerity policies. On Monday, the Argentine Workers’ Central Union (CTA) launched a parallel 36-hour strike with the support of several smaller unions, neighborhood associations, and social movements to reject the government’s social and economic policies. Macri has faced massive protests and four national strikes. In June, shortly after the government agreed on a US$50 billion emergency loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the CGT and several other unions paralyzed the country to reject the agreement and the austerity measures that accompany IMF loans.

If You Care Nothing Of Starvation, You Are Not A Socialist

September 8, 2018 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute of Social Research. Educate! Argentina, Food and Agriculture, India, LGBTQ

Sentiments whip back and forth – a museum with ancient artefacts burns to the ground in Brazil as India’s Supreme Court decriminalises homosexuality. The first - the fire in Brazil - should never have happened (as the journalist Mário Augusto Jakobskind notes) but did – partly because the government has neglected the infrastructure needed by fire-fighters (hydrants near the 200-year-old museum were dry, which is why Rio’s fire chief Roberto Robadey said, ‘Yesterday was one of the saddest days of my career’). The burnt museum is a metaphor for the political events in Brazil, where the ‘judicial coup’ against the people continues.

Is Cristina Fernandez A Victim Of A Political Persecution?

August 22, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, Brazil, Electoral Politics, Latin America, Repression

For the journalist Stella Calloni, against the former president of Argentina, the same script used in Brazil against Lula da Silva is being repeated. The Senate of Argentina discussed Wednesday authorization to pave the homes of the former president and current senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner . The ruling party will try to get a vote on the judicial measure that was requested by federal judge Claudio Bonadio. The magistrate delivered the request within the framework of the case in which the payment of bribes in public works is investigated during part of the Kirchner government. CFK denounced on Tuesday that is a victim of political persecution against him in which act coordinated "the Judiciary, the Executive and the hegemonic media."

Argentina’s New $50 Billion IMF Loan Is Designed To Replay Its 2001 Crisis

July 28, 2018 Sharmini Peries, Therealnews.com Educate! Argentina, Crisis, IMF, Loans

For several months now. Argentines have been taking to the streets to protest against neoliberal austerity measures of President Mauricio Macri. The most recent such protest took place on July 9 on Argentine’s Independence Day. There has also been three general strikes thus far. In the two years since he took office, President Macri has laid off as many as 76,000 public sector workers, and slashed gas and water and electricity subsidies, leading to a tenfold increase in prices, in some cases. Now, the government argues that all of this is necessary in order to stem inflation, and the decline of the currency’s value. Last month, Macri received the backing of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF agreed to provide Argentina with a $50 billion loan, one of the largest in IMF history. In exchange, the Macri government will deepen the austerity measures already in place.

New Study Finds Links Between RoundUp (Glyphosate) Herbicide And Fetal Defects

July 27, 2018 By Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Argentina, glyphosate, health

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – A new study conducted by Argentinian researchers has found that glyphosate – the controversial herbicide marketed by Monsanto (now Bayer) as RoundUp – causes significant damage to pregnant lab rats and their fetuses at relatively low doses. The study, published in Archives of Toxicology, found that not only was the female fertility of pregnant rats impaired, but fetal growth was retarded and malformations were detected in their second-generation offspring. Researchers tested the glyphosate-based chemical in pregnant female rats at two different doses. The higher dose (200 mg glyphosate per kg of bodyweight per day) was chosen based on the no-observed adverse effect level (NOAEL) for maternal toxicity of 1000 mg/kg bw/day promoted by the agrochemical industry as safe for mothers and fetuses.

Argentina: Protests Against IMF As G20 Ministers Convene

July 23, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, G20, IMF, Protests

IMF chief Christine Lagarde praised the economic policies promoted by president Macri and rejected by vast sectors of Argentine society. Argentines welcomed International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde, who arrived Friday in Argentina for a G20 summit, with protests and roadblocks in Buenos Aires. Social movements, students, opposition political parties, and workers’ unions mobilize to reject the IMF once more. The government of president Mauricio Macri requested a stand-by loan in May in the midst of a rapid devaluation of the Argentine peso. In June the IMF approved a US$ 50 billion loan, which was rejected by many groups in Argentina that associate the IMF’s return with an impending economic and financial crisis, like the one that ravaged the South American nation in the early 2000s.

Anti-IMF Protests Take Place On Argentina’s Independence Day

July 14, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, IMF, Independence Day, Latin America, Protests

Thousands of Argentine demonstrators filled the streets of Buenos Aires telling President Mauricio Marci and the IMF: "INDEPENDENCE CAN'T BE NEGOTIATED." Thousands of Argentines took to the streets on the nation’s independence day - July 9 - to protest the government’s extreme austerity measures and recent IMF loan. Marchers yelled, "The homeland will not give up" and carried signs that read: "INDEPENDENCE CAN'T BE NEGOTIATED" and "NO TO THE IMF" as they symbolically marched along Buenos Aires’ main avenue - 9 de Julio - which bears the country’s date of independence. The former governor of the Buenos Aires province, Felipe Sola told the multitudes that President Mauricio Macri’s economic plan is "creating hunger, misery, discontent in all classes, including in the middle class, where everything has been adjusted. No one can do anything anymore."

Argentina Anti-Austerity Strike Brings Country To Standstill

June 26, 2018 Staff, Bbc.com Resist! Anti-Austerity, Argentina, Strikes

Argentina has been brought to a halt by a general strike, called by trade unions in protest against a $50bn International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan. The General Confederation of Workers is also demanding salary hikes in line with inflation of nearly 30% a year. Trains, buses and the underground system stopped in Buenos Aires. Access roads to the capital were blocked by activists. Some 15 million people were affected in the capital, officials said.

From Mexico To Argentina US Interventionism Intensifies: Expert

May 8, 2018 By Marion Deschamps, Telesurtv.net Educate! Argentina, Mexico, US Imperialism

Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington and president of Just Foreign Policy, talked about how U.S. interventionism has been toppling left-wing governments in Latin America as part of their foreign policy, and how they continue to do so from Mexico to Argentina. Speaking with Greg Wilpert of The Real news Network, Weisbrot noted how the U.S. interventionism has undermined left-wing and progressive governments in Latin America in favor of others friendlier to Washington's economic and political policy. The rise of left-wing and center-left governments in Latin America at the turn of the century brought a period of prosperity and sovereignty to the region, but that trend is now threatened as they have been displaced little by little.

Grandmothers Of Plaza De Mayo: 41 Years Seeking Justice

May 1, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, History, Mothers, South America

On April 30, 1977, a group of women met in the Plaza de Mayo in front of the Casa Rosada, the seat of government in the center of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires, after the disappearance of their children. That meeting occurred while there was a state of siege and the meetings of more than three people were forbidden, and they were forced to leave the square by the police. This is how the March of the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo was born. They were accused of being "crazy" but their struggle to know what had happened to their children remained alive to this day. On more than one occasion they suffered repression from on the hands of security forces of the military dictatorship, again and again, they were violently removed from the Plaza.

Argentine Truckers Block Capital Streets To Protest Macri Reforms

February 26, 2018 Hugh Bronstein and Nicolás Misculin, Reuters.com Resist! Argentina, Protests, Reform

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine truck drivers paralyzed parts of Buenos Aires, throwing up road blocks in some of the city’s busiest downtown neighborhoods, in a protest on Wednesday against President Mauricio Macri’s market-friendly economic policies. The protest was seen as a test of the president’s ability to keep pushing legislation in Latin America’s No. 3 economy after a violent outcry over pension reforms he got through Congress late last year. Macri, who took office in December 2015, is trying to cut Argentina’s fiscal deficit by gradually reducing subsidies for home heating gas and transportation, moves that have triggered an unpopular increase in utility bills and bus fares. “Mister President, don’t continue with policies that force the most vulnerable parts of our society - retired people, old people - to go hungry,” Hugo Moyano, head of Argentina’s largest umbrella union, the CGT, shouted at an afternoon protest rally.

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