Posts Tagged ‘Argentina’
Argentine Children Murder Baby
2:29 pm By Maegan La Mala · Argentina|children|crime|Latin America · Comments Off
22 May 2008
Some shocking news out of Buenos Aires, Argentina: two children, aged 7 and 9 have allegedly murdered a baby and declared to police that they did so “with pleasure”:
Argentine society is witness to the horror and confusion caused by the revelation of the details around the death of a 2 year old girl. It happened on Sunday…Milagros Belizán [pictured] was first beaten over the head, later hung on the wall and finally beaten relentlessly with wooden boards and suffocated little by little until she died. Medical examiners say she endured “long agony…
The crime was originally blamed on an adult, and authorities had to intervene to avoid the man being lynched by neighbors. Later the bizarre truth came out. Witnesses had seen two boys abusing the baby in the street, the police questioned them, and when they told the story of what they had done, they did so with pride and excitement.
The children accused of the crime reportedly come from a violent family environment. Police are looking to take the boys out of their homes because of death threats from neighbors.
Via / El PaÃs
Grandmothers Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
5:57 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Argentina|Justice|Latin America|society · Comments Off
13 May 2008
Las Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, an Argentine activist group fighting for justice in the disappearance cases of hundreds of Argentine citizens — many children and pregnant women — during the country’s “Dirty War” have been nominated for a 2008 Nobel Peace Prize
…for their fight to give restore the identity of some 500 children stolen during the last dictatorship, in an act before congress.
Estella Carlotto, president of the organization, in a speech about the candidacy, said: “We are regular women among the thousands of Argentine women who do not back down in desperate situations…Each grandchild we get back is like a Nobel Prize.”
The last Nobel Peace Prize for Argentina was in 1980, for activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
Via / El Universal
How To Offend a Nation : Argentina Mad About los Simpsons
1:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|TV · Comments Off
17 Apr 2008
Spot the offense. Is it the desaparecidos comment? That fact that Eva Peron wasn’t mentioned but Madonna was? Maybe it’s the idea that Argentina and other Latin American nations have a history of less than democratic governments?
One Argentine legislator wants the episode banned, following in the footsteps of Venezuela, who has banned not one episode but the whole damn show because of it’s moral quality (or lack thereof).
Via / The Latin Americanist
Kirshner Got Rich While President of Argentina
11:39 am By Maegan La Mala · Argentina|Celebrities|Money|Politics · Comments Off
18 Jan 2008
Néstor Kirchner, the former president of Argentina now ceding power to his wife Cristina, can’t complain about his time in La Casa Rosada. According to tax records, Mr. Kirchner increased his worth by 160% during his 4-year presidential term, from 1.8 million dollars to 5.6 million dollars, according to Spain’s 20 Minutos.
Not bad at all. Sounds like Néstor’s a good businessman. He certainly helped pull that country out of a nasty recession. Too bad he couldn’t do anything about inflation last year. Can Cristina fix what broke under her hubby?
Not Flying the Unfriendly Skies in Argentina
8:03 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|Labor|travel · 1 Comment
14 Jan 2008
If living in South America showed me anything, it’s that they really know how to protest. Travelers left stranded for up to two days in Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza international airport on Saturday protested by tossing breaking equipment and attacking guards after Aerolineas Argentinas suspended most of its flights there. The delays and suspensions were attributed to a strike by the pilots’ union a union for airport tarmac workers for higher wages. But union officials said the disruptions were caused by overbooked flights.
“There’s no one from the company, no one is showing their face or telling us when we’re going to fly. We’re stranded with children and the elderly,” a woman whose flight to Venezuela was canceled on Friday told local TV.
Sexual Revolution in Argentina?
12:47 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|sex|Women · Comments Off
9 Jan 2008
With Argentina electing a female president for the first time, one would like to think that women are seen and seeing themselves as more than just sex objects or arm candy for futbol players (have you watched an Argentine soccer game on Argentine tv?).
Adrian Sapetti, head of the Argentine Society of Human Sexuality, says the feminine assertiveness began 30 years ago with the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a group of mothers of political dissidents who for three decades protested the disappearance of their children during the military dictatorship of 1976 to 1983.
Argentine Jewish Community Upset with Maradona
5:38 pm By Maegan La Mala · Argentina|Controversia|Culture|iran|Religion · 1 Comment
26 Dec 2007
Maradona might be considered an untouchable demigod in his home country of Argentina, but the embattled soccer star has fallen from grace in the eyes of some in Argentina’s Jewish community because of a controversial comment. La mano de Dios was quoted as saying that he wants to meet the president of Iran: “I’ve already met (Hugo) Chávez and Fidel (Castro). Now the only one I’ve still got to meet is their [the Iranian] president. I want to meet Ahmadineyad.”
The comment was not well-received by the Jewish community, which
…”strongly laments” the words of ex-soccer player Diego Maradona in favor of Iran and hopes that “he rectifies [the situation]“, said the secretary of the Israeli and Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA), Edgardo Gorenber.“We are admirers of Maradona as a player and we strongly lament his expressing his opinion on such delicate an issue as this one,” he said, after citing that in 1994 the AMIA was the target of a terrorist attack which left 85 dead and which the Jewish community attributes to terrorists protected by Iran.
“Diego is the most well-known Argentine in the world and our soccer embassador. It would be good to tell him the true story about how much pain [Iran] brought us 13 years ago,” said the Agencia JudÃa de Noticias.
I think the relative gentleness of this chiding of Maradona is a testament to how powerful he still is in Argentina. I doubt anyone else could get away with such statements as that one given the history of the relationship between Iran and Argentina and Ahmadinejad’s denial of the verity of the holocaust.
Via / 20 Minutos
Venezuelan Agents Covering Up Kirchner Cash Stopped in US
8:46 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|Controversia|Venezuela · 1 Comment
13 Dec 2007
What exactly were four Venezuelan agents doing in the U.S? According to the U.S. Justice Department, the four wanted to talk to Miami business man
Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson so that he wouldn’t talk about $800,000 in cash he was carrying from Caracas, Venezuela, to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Confused? Yeah, me too.
The three Venezolanos and one Uruguayo were allegedly working for Hugo Chavez himself (cue the evil villain music). They were here to cover up the fact that those $800,000 dollars were destined for the pockets of the campaign of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the recently sworn in president of Argentina.
U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta in Miami said: “Today’s complaint alleges an effort by the agents of Venezuela to travel to the U.S. for the purpose of coercing our citizens to help conceal the true nature of a growing international scandal.”
Argentina’s Presidenta and Her First Hombre
8:01 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|Politics · Comments Off
11 Dec 2007
Don’t cry for her Argentina. Yesterday, the Southern Cone nation swore in its first elected female presidenta, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because Fernandez de Kirchner is the wife of former president Nestor Kirchner.
The government that is coming is going to be much better than the one that’s now leaving,” Kirchner said.
He handed over power Monday afternoon to Fernandez, a three-term senator who won office handily on their left-leaning Victory Front coalition ticket.
If the story reminds you a little of a couple named Juan and Eva Peron, it’s certainly no accident. The Kirchners are Peronists. Maybe the story reminds you of a U.S. couple, hmm say Bill and Hillary?
South America now boasts two female heads of states. Chile’s president is Michelle Bachelet.
Via / CNN
Argentina: First gender reassigment on a minor
1:29 pm By Maegan La Mala · Argentina|GLBT · 2 Comments
6 Dec 2007
Nati, a 17 year-old from Cordoba, Argentina, never felt like a boy. In her own words she described her feelings towards gender as being “7 Up trapped in Coke bottle”. But as of this week, Nati is no longer trapped, becoming the first minor in Argentina to have gender reassignment surgery:
The adolescent, totally supported in this decision by her parents, brothers and loved ones, was diagnosed with gender dysphoria (a profound difference between the physical gender and the gender that person feels is their own), and even though she had already received hormone treatment and breast implants, the “essential” part was still missing.
Nati had attempted suicide three times before when local judges denied her the right to surgery because she was a minor. After the surgery issued a new I.D. card reflecting her gender.
Via / 20 Minutos
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