Human rights and the dictatorship take center stage in heated VP debate
Villarruel, who has ties with military officers who were part of the 1976 dictatorship, once again denied that the number of disappeared was 30,000. She also refused to say what she thought should be done with military officers convicted of crimes against humanity. She answered that there were “no human rights” for the victims killed by armed groups in the 1970s. “I think that, deep down, you stand by the dictatorship,” Rossi told Villarruel. The CELTYV and Villarruel herself have been accused by human rights organizations of promoting denialist ideas of the state-sponsored terrorism that took place during the dictatorship.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 09, 2023 15:35 UTC
SilverCrest Reports Third Quarter 2023 Results
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Source:The Bubble
November 09, 2023 04:50 UTC
Kanazawa University research: Researchers tune the speed of chirality switching
AdvertisementKANAZAWA, Japan, Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Science Advances how they can accelerate and decelerate chirality inversion in large cage molecules using alkali metal ion binding. Now researchers led by Shigehisa Akine at Kanazawa University have demonstrated how environmental changes can also accelerate or decelerate this chiral inversion process, providing “a novel time-programmable switchable system”. Acceleration and deceleration of chirality inversion speeds in a dynamic helical metallocryptand by alkali metal ion binding, Science Advances 9, eadj5536 (2023). About Kanazawa Universityhttp://www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/e/As the leading comprehensive university on the Sea of Japan coast, Kanazawa University has contributed greatly to higher education and academic research in Japan since it was founded in 1949. Kanazawa University is divided into two main campuses: Kakuma and Takaramachi for its approximately 10,200 students including 600 from overseas.
Source:The Bubble
November 08, 2023 22:42 UTC
Milei calls Macri’s government a ‘failure’, denies being part of the caste
Milei scornfully refers to career politicians as “the caste” and his economic program as the “chainsaw plan” — a nod to his proposed wide-ranging budget cuts and drastically reducing the size of the state. He had the right ideas, the right direction, but he failed at the speed [needed to set them in motion],” Milei said, adding that Macri’s allies were to blame for his lack of success. During the interview, Milei also made unfounded claims that there were “irregularities” in the October 22 elections, saying that the electoral authorities were “influenced” by the government’s executive branch. Milei and his supporters have been making unfounded claims of electoral fraud since before the elections even happened. Milei’s party has not presented any formal reports of fraud to the electoral authorities.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 08, 2023 16:28 UTC
Massa announced state-sponsored insurance for platform workers
Economy Minister Sergio Massa announced on Tuesday that delivery app workers will be able to access free insurance as of December 15 through the state-owned Banco Nación’s insurance company, Nación Seguros. The Economy Ministry will later analyze the results to write a bill regulating the sector together with the workers and companies. In September, Ramiro Marra, La Libertad Avanza (LLA)’s erstwhile mayoral candidate for Buenos Aires met with gig workers to discuss their situation. The Herald spoke with gig workers about the recently-announced measures. “One has a perspective that wants to keep labor deregulated and unprotected, the other from a perspective that seeks to gain labor rights,” said Ottaviano.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 08, 2023 16:28 UTC
Corrientes: Seven ex-military convicted of crimes against humanity
Seven former members of Argentina’s military were convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s last dictatorship (1976-1983) at the Federal Oral Court in Corrientes on Tuesday morning. Also sentenced were former 9th Infantry Regiment officials Abelardo Carlos De la Vega (12 years), and Raúl Horacio Harsich (eight years). According to Argentina’s human rights secretariat, state prosecutors will appeal once the court has published the reasoning behind its judgment . One of the largest was the Corrientes 9th Infantry Regiment, where the crimes took place — all 101 victims named in the case were detained there. The dates of hearings and other information about Argentina’s ongoing human rights trials can be found on the Juicios de Lesa website.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 07, 2023 17:31 UTC
Buenos Aires City inflation cooled to 9.4% in October
Prices in Buenos Aires City rose by 9.4% in October, bringing yearly inflation to 146%, according to local government statistics published Tuesday. The city Consumer Price Index figure for October is down from the previous month, when it hit 12%, but prices have risen by 120% in 2023 to date. Educational costs were up by 15.2%, largely as a result of increases in school fees. Other sectors and industries that weighed heavily on the index included cars, bars and restaurants, and health insurance payments. Argentina’s INDEC statistics bureau will publish national inflation data for October on November 13, six days before the presidential run-off election.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 07, 2023 17:31 UTC
Massa says he’d eliminate currency restrictions in late 2024 if elected
Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa said that he will eliminate currency restrictions at the end of 2024 if he wins the November 19 run-off election. The currency restrictions are known in Spanish as the cepo. “We will eliminate the cepo when 2024 ends and we have enough dollar reserves for trade to flow freely, while also not having to strain our reserves,” Massa said. Lifting currency restrictions was one of the main campaign promises of right-wing candidates Javier Milei, who will compete against Massa in the November 19 run-off, and Patricia Bullrich. Currency restrictions have been in place, on and off, for the past decade, through former Presidents Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Mauricio Macri’s governments.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 06, 2023 18:49 UTC
Pope skips reading speech because of a cold but continues schedule
Pope Francis on Monday skipped reading a prepared speech for a meeting with European rabbis, telling them he was not feeling well, and the Vatican said he was suffering from a slight cold but would go ahead with his other engagements for the day. I greet you all and I welcome you and thank you for this visit, which greatly pleases me,” he told a delegation from the Conference of European Rabbis. “Pope Francis has a bit of a cold and a long day of audiences,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement. “He wanted to greet the European rabbis individually and so he gave them his written speech. In the past, Francis has not read prepared speeches at the last minute in order to preserve his strength.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 06, 2023 18:39 UTC
Dictatorship-era sexual abuse ratified as crime against humanity
The Federal Criminal Cassation Court ratified its decision to declare sexual abuse and rape committed during the last military dictatorship as crimes against humanity. Being considered a crime against humanity means that there is no longer a statute of limitations for reporting dictatorship-era sexual abuse and the crimes are considered to be part of a systematic attack against a sector of the civil population. These include crimes against sexual integrity, such as violence against pregnant women and forced pregnancy. The first time a sexual crime was convicted as a crime against humanity was in 2010 in Mar del Plata. One of the officers convicted of sexual crimes against humanity is Jorge “Tigre” Acosta, who recently seemed to back far-right candidate Javier Milei in an open letter written from prison.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 05, 2023 20:46 UTC
Translation troubles: corn and innuen-dough
From behind-the-scenes conversations at the newsroom to classic translation troubles where the English translation just hits different, here are three words that tickled our linguistic funny bone recently at the Herald. You might not look at corn and dough the same way again. We were discussing these choclos in Spanish in the newsroom and suddenly we thought “Hang on a second, why do we refer to hulking long texts as corn? And maybe next time I see a particularly long quote, I’ll just comment “corn,” professional editor that I am. Share your thoughts and translation hang-ups with us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram!
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 05, 2023 20:45 UTC
Despite lack of evidence, LLA supporters push electoral fraud narrative
Even Milei’s party LLA failed to present any legal complaint and its technical representative, Fernando Cerimedo, told the Herald there had been no fraud. Marcos Schiavi, head of the National Electoral Directorate, told the Herald that LLA authorities never suggested there would be fraud in the numerous meetings they held regarding vote count. A great power but no responsibility“Oh, I saw the videos,” Schiavi told the Herald. “Those were voting stations that weren’t counted during the provisional tally [for any number of reasons],” Schiavi told the Herald. “This was the presidential election with the lowest-ever difference between the provisional and final tallies,” Schiavi told the Herald.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 05, 2023 01:15 UTC
IDB to finance a bridge in Argentina with US$1 billion loan
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) board approved two loans for Argentina for US$1.4 billion meant to finance the construction of a new bridge that will connect neighboring provinces Chaco and Corrientes. The press release also said that 88,000 people will use the bridge daily, adding that 9.5 million people will benefit indirectly. “[The Belgrano bridge] is severely limited by vehicle capacity, weight restrictions, and traffic,” the IDB press release said. The US$1.4 billion credit will be divided into two payments. The second part will be a US$700 million Credit Line for Investment Projects (CCLIP).
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 04, 2023 22:17 UTC
Argentina’s LGBTQIA+ community is marching for more than pride
From 10 a.m., hundreds of thousands are taking to the streets as part of the 32nd annual Pride March. While the day’s largest march will be held in Buenos Aires, dozens of cities and municipalities will be celebrating as well. For Argentina’s LGBTQIA+ community, the personal is the political. Argentina’s inaugural pride march took place in 1992, near the height of the HIV epidemic, and was the first of its kind in Latin America. The event was subsequently moved to November 4 to honor Argentina’s first LGBT+ organization, Nuestro Mundo, which was established in November 1967.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 04, 2023 11:58 UTC
Argentina’s Supreme Court rejects environmental writs against offshore drilling
Following that, three amparo writs were filed, requesting the suspension of exploratory activities and the revocation of permits. 2 in Mar del Plata granted the requested preliminary measures and ordered the immediate cessation of the project. Four months later, in June of last year, the Federal Court of Appeals in Mar del Plata annulled the preliminary measure and replaced it with another. It also required the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development to be involved in overseeing and enforcing the environmental impact declaration and the environmental management plan. Lamacchia stated that the country could have up to a 50% local component in Mar del Plata offshore, though he emphasized that reaching that level is not easy.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
November 04, 2023 07:41 UTC