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After many years of campaigning, Argentina’s feminist movements booked a historic victory at the end of 2020 when abortion was finally legalized.
On December 30, 2020, at 4am, Argentina’s senate voted on an issue the whole nation had been waiting for: whether or not to legalize abortion.
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The right to abortion is a major achievement of women and the fruit of a long fight for their rights. After a 9th presentation to the Parliament - the first presentation of the bill took place on May 28, 2007 - abortion is now legal in Argentina.
This is an achievement of the feminist (...)
As Argentina’s upper house prepares for its historic vote on abortion rights, Verónica Gago, our leading theorist of the Feminist International, discusses how the struggle around abortion has opened up the central question of ’political decision’ for those typically excluded from politics.
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Argentina will become only fourth Latin American country where abortion is legal
Argentina is poised to become the first major Latin American country to legalize abortion after legislation was given the green light by lower house.
The bill, which was submitted last month by the leftwing (...)
Argentina’s feminist movement is grappling with the death of Diego Maradona, the popular football hero with a history of violence against women.
November 25 is the International Day Against Domestic Violence. On this very day, Diego Maradona, the Argentine millionaire and slum-born footballer, (...)
The following interview, given by Éric Toussaint to the Argentine review Mugica, has been adapted to make it accessible to readers who are not necessarily aware of the details of what is going on in Argentina.
The arguments used in the article are supported by the realities of the situation in (...)
After four years of brutal neoliberal policies under Mauricio Macri as President, Argentina is again facing a major debt crisis.
Let us remember that when Macri started his mandate in December 2015 he accepted all the injunctions formulated by a New York magistrate, who had ruled in the favor (...)
Argentina’s recent elections have set the country’s right on the path to defeat. But that won’t immediately put the working class back in the driver’s seat — much greater mobilization is needed for that.
The thumping electoral defeat of neoliberal president Mauricio Macri is a major political (...)
Mauricio Macri came into office promising to stem corruption and bring down inflation. But his austerity policies have left Argentina’s economy in shambles.
Mauricio Macri, the businessman-turned-politician about to complete his first term as Argentina’s president, is up for reelection later (...)
In the country of Pope Francis, under the neoliberal government of conservative Mauricio Macri, the feminist movement won a historic approval by the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of Argentina’s congress) for the Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo (IVE), or Voluntary Termination of (...)
Campaigners condemn authorities who ignored girl’s plea ‘to remove what the old man put inside me’
An 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped was forced to give birth after Argentine authorities refused to allow her the abortion to which she was entitled.
The authorities ignored (...)
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The current situation is visibly unstable, fragile, uncertain. Any analysis runs the risk of getting old quickly. There are several factors provoking social and political instability: the worsening economic crisis, increasing social conflict and the (now slightly obscured) “Centeno affair” (...)
More than 3,700 people submit apostasy requests in protest against anti-abortion campaign
Thousands of Argentinians – most of them women – have started formal proceedings to abandon the Catholic church, in protest of the church’s campaign against efforts to legalise abortion in the country.
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A bill to legalize abortion narrowly failed in the Argentinian Senate. But feminist movements have already effected a social revolution in South America.
On August 8 the Argentine Senate, by a narrow margin, voted down the Law of Voluntary Pregnancy Interruption (IVE), which would have (...)
Lawmakers vote against allowing elective abortion in first 14 weeks of pregnancy
Argentina’s senate has rejected a bill to legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
Lawmakers debated for more than 15 hours and voted 38 against to 31 in favour, despite the fact opinion polls showed (...)
Senate votes on bill opposed by Catholic church and pope that would legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy
Ana María Acevedo was a 19-year-old housemaid and already the mother of three children when she was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw.
Her prognosis took a turn for the worse (...)
Update
After a long debate, the Argentine Senate refused to legalize abortion by a 38-31 vote early Thursday morning. As senators deliberated, hundreds of thousands of women — maybe as many as 1 million — flooded Buenos Aires despite bad weather to demand their right to legal, safe and free (...)
Our correspondent went to the deserts of Patagonia to examine how China secured its new base, a symbol of its growing clout in the region. [The many photos – by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times – are not reproduced here. See the original article.]
QUINTUCO, Argentina — The giant antenna (...)
Sergio Ferrari from Berne, Switzerland interviewed Eric Toussaint, international debt specialist.
1. The vicious circle of illegitimate debt grapples the Argentine people once again
2. IMF’s $ 50 billion loan surpasses Greece’s previous record
After more than a decade of Argentina’s official (...)
Today in Argentina we see a battle for political spirituality in the streets, in houses, in beds, and in schools.
Feminism speaks of bodies at the same time that it raises a dispute about political spirituality. That is political precisely because it does not separate the body from the (...)
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