Argentina

Occupy Buenos Aires: Workers’ Movement Transformed City

April 11, 2016 Matt Kennard and Ana Caistor-Arendar, www.theguardian.com Create! Argentina, Cooperatives, Occupation, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Matt Kennard and Ana Caistor-Arendar for The Guardian - The Hotel Bauen in downtown Buenos Aires looks like its best days are behind it. The art deco interior is crumbling, three of the lifts are out, and the whole place looks like it could do with a lick of paint. It’s an unlikely candidate to be at the centre of perhaps the most successful worker occupation movement in the world. Bauen was opened in 1978, thanks in no small part to a subsidy from the military junta of the time, to provide five-star accommodation for travellers to the World Cup held in the country that same year.

Macri’s Gov’t Dismisses Calls To Release Activist Milagro Sala

April 2, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, political prisoners

By Staff of Tele Sur - Human rights groups have dubbed Milagro Sala the "first political prisoner" of the right-wing Mauricio Macri administration. Argentina's Appeals Chamber of Jujuy rejected the release of Indigenous leader Milagro Sala, after rejecting the defense appeal filed by her lawyer. For the judges, the release of Sala could "hinder the normal process" against her and the Tupac Amaru neighborhood movement she leads.

Mothers Of Plaza De Mayo Reject Obama’s Visit To Argentina

March 31, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, Barack Obama, Mothers

By Staff of Tele Sur - The head of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, described the visit of President Obama to Argentina as "a mockery of the historical memory of the Argentine people." The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association called misplaced the visit of US President, Barack Obama, to Argentina during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the 1976 coup. "I started thinking what country represents Obama and I immediately jumped to mind the Condor Plan...

Protesters Disown Obama’s Visit To Argentina

March 31, 2016 Staff, www.latercera.com Resist! Argentina, Barack Obama, Protest Demonstrations

By Staff of La Tercera - Protesters marched today against the visit of President Barack Obama to Argentina and burned American flags near the US Embassy in Buenos Aires and place of accommodation of the president and his family. Between 1,500 and 2,000 demonstrators staged a protest outside the convention center La Rural in Palermo, where one organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina business meeting was held.

Newsletter: The Unfolding Story Of Latin America

March 27, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Argentina, Boliva, Brazil, Cuba, Democracy, Ecuador, Honduras, Imperialism, oligarchy, Venezuela

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Latin America has been a key battleground in the conflict between neo-liberal capitalism and US hegemony against the growing people power that is demanding a more equitable economy that builds from the bottom up and is more democratic. Venezuela has been the focal point of the campaign against the progressive cycle. The amnesty bill shows the extreme actions the US and oligarchs are willing to take to wrest power from the people and return it to the wealthy business interests. The wealthy have made progress in some key countries leading to people ask whether the progressive cycle has come to an end and what lies ahead for the region.

Argentina: 6 Indigenous Women At Heart Of Fracking Resistance

March 21, 2016 Nancy Piñeiro Moreno, Translated Laura Beratti, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, Fracking, Indigenous Rights, South America

By Nancy Piñeiro Moreno, Translated by Laura Beratti for Tele Sur - These women have put their bodies on the line, chained themselves to rigs and barricades, in order to protect their land. These six Mapuche women have taken the risk of putting their bodies on the line to stop the drilling rigs from further endangering their community. Aboriginal women are central to the continent-wide resistance against extractivism, and the story of these women from the Campo Maripe community in the Argentine Patagonia is a solid example of their ongoing contribution, and the importance of indigenous resistance for social movements worldwide.

Argentina Protests Macri as He Threatens More Austerity Schemes

March 16, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, Austerity, Protests

By Staff of Tele Sur - The Argentine president was met with widespread protests during his visit to the city of Rosario as he pushes for a deal with U.S. vulture funds. Argentine President Mauricio Macri suggested that without a deal with U.S. hedge funds, commonly referred to as vulture funds, the country is in store for further austerity or hyperinflation. “Austerity or hyperinflation. There is no alternative,” President Macri told an Argentine TV outlet Monday.

Social Movements Organize To Resist Macri’s Neoliberalism

January 11, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, Austerity, Neoliberalism

By Staff of Tele Sur - In one month, President Mauricio Macri signed more than 260 decrees to push through rapid neoliberal changes and started to roll back social programs. While Argentine President Mauricio Macri’s first month in office has given big business reasons to rejoice, thousands have taken to the streets to protest the rapid policy changes and many important social and political groups are organizing to resist the neoliberal trend.

Neoliberalism Raises Its Ugly Head In South America

January 8, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Argentina, Brazil, Neoliberalism, Venezuela

By Staff of Tele Sur - After 9-11, the United States focused its most aggressive foreign policy on the Middle East – from Afghanistan to North Africa. But the deal recently worked out with Iran, the current back-door negotiations over Syria between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and the decision to subsidize, and now export, U.S. shale oil and gas production in a direct reversal of U.S. past policy toward Saudi Arabia – together signal a relative shift of U.S. policy away from the Middle East.

Argentines March With Workers Against Macri’s Pro-Business Policies

December 23, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, March, Protests, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of Tele Sur - Argentines hit the streets on Tuesday in the first mass mobilization against Macri’s fiscal adjustment plan. Thousands of Argentines from various leftist groups gathered at the Plaza de Mayo on Tuesday to decry the fiscal and labor policies of the newly instated President Mauricio Macri, which they view as gains for the “CEOcracy” at the expense of workers. The action, ending at the presidential palace, was the first unified march against Macri’s adjustment program.

Argentina: Columbus Statue Replaced By Female Freedom Fighter

July 24, 2015 TeleSurTV, www.telesurtv.net Create! Argentina, Colonialism, Feminism, Latin America, Social Change

By TeleSurTV - Juana Azurduy was a South America guerrilla military leader and critical figure in the South American struggle for independence. Bolivian President Evo Morales' visit to his Argentina counterpart Cristina Fernandez Wednesday will focus not only on bilateral agreements between the two nations, but also South America's independence history, Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported. The two South American leaders will inaugurate a monument to independence heroine and South American guerrilla military leader Juana Azurduy. The 15-meter high (52 feet) bronze statue has been erected outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires in the place that a monument to Christopher Columbus once stood. “Bye Columbus, see you never. Hello Juana Azurduy, UNTIL VICTORY, ALWAYS… Long live Patria Grande.”

Thousands March Against Femicide In Argentina

June 13, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Argentina, Femicide, Feminism

Thousands of protesters marched on June 3 in Buenos Aires and dozens of other cities across Argentina against violence towards women. Shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, massive crowds of protesters gathered in the Dos Congresos square outside of the National Congress in Buenos Aires. Almost 200,000 people, according to Argentine news agency Telam, participated in the march. The protesters demanded an end to gender violence in the country, and the organizers asked politicians in attendance to sign a five-point promise to put an end to femicide. “Femicide is the most extreme form of violence that crosses every social class, beliefs or ideas,” organizers read from a statement on stage outside of Argentina’s Congressaccording to the Buenos Aires Herald.

Summit Brings Together 25 Indigenous Nations For Resistance

June 11, 2015 Fionuala Cregan, www.intercontinentalcry.org Resist! Argentina, Indigenous People, Land Rights, Oil & Gas

By Fionuala Cregan in Intercontinental Cry - From May 27-29, 2014, Indigenous leaders from across Argentina’s 17 provinces met in Buenos Aires and presented dramatic testimonies of human rights violations and dispossession from their ancestral lands. In all corners of the country, these Indigenous Peoples have found themselves at the forefront of the battle against oil and gas exploration, fracking, mining, hydroelectric dams and deforestation for soy cultivation. As they defend the environment and their ancestral territories, many have suffered death threats, judicial harassment and other forms of persecution. Solidarity was expressed in particular with two emblematic cases – the Mapuche community Winkul Newen and the inter-ethnic organization QOPIWINI.

Pope Francis Orders Vatican To Open Files On Argentina Dictatorship

May 1, 2015 Uki Goñi, www.theguardian.com Educate! Argentina, Faith, History, Pope Francis

Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to open its files on Argentina’s military dictatorship, a move that could help the families of thousands of victims of the military regime finally discover the fate of their loved ones. “This is the pope’s wish – for something to be done – so he has asked the secretariat of state to take charge of it, and work has already begun on declassifying the Vatican archives related to Argentina’s dictatorship,” Father Guillermo Karcher, an Argentinian priest who is a close aide of the pope, said in an interview with a Buenos Aires radio station. During the 1976-83 dictatorship, 20,000 people were made to “disappear” by the Argentinian authorities, who saw them as subversives. The Vatican collected a large amount of information on these cases, principally through the papal nuncio’s office in Buenos Aires.

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