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Venezuelan migrants wash their clothes in a humanitarian camp in Bogotá, Colombia.

Dr Elena Block: 'Maduro is denying the migration crisis exists'

19-01-2019 10:43 Interview with Dr Elena Block, academic and specialist on Venezuela’s chavista movement, addressing the migration crisis.

by Jayson McNamara

Chicha Mariani, founder and former president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.

'ABUELAS' FOUNDER

Iconic Grandmother of Plaza de Mayo 'Chicha' Mariani dies aged 94

21-08-2018 11:19 Chicha Mariani's struggle to find her granddaughter Clara Anahí happened largely in the shadows of the internationally-acclaimed organisation she once presided.

by Jayson McNamara

Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner leaves court after submitting a written statement to judge Claudio Bonadio on Monday, August 13, 2018.

OUT THIS SATURDAY!

In this week's Times: CFK faces graft allegations

17-08-2018 21:30 Corruption was on everybody's lips this week, as former president Cristina Kirchner headed back to court to face graft accusations.

by Jayson McNamara

Sergio Wisky (right), pictured with Preisdent Mauricio Macri.

INTERVIEW WITH SERGIO WISKY

‘Abortion is a public health issue’

26-05-2018 09:32 National deputy Sergio Wisky (Unión PRO, Río Negro) on the decriminalisation of abortion, the debate in Congress and why women should be given greater autonomy over their bodies.

by Jayson McNamara

Sergio Maldonado (left) looks at lawyer Verónica Heredia (right).

INTERVIEW WITH VERONICA HEREDIA

Maldonado investigation is flawed: lawyer

12-05-2018 20:11 Verónica Heredia, who represents Santiago Maldonado’s family, says the ongoing investigation into the 28-year-old’s death cannot provide answers if Security Forces continue participating in the gathering of evidence.

by Jayson McNamara

THIS SATURDAY'S EDITION

In this week's Times: Macri turns to IMF in urgent attempt to stunt peso’s dive

11-05-2018 20:30 Pick up your copy inside the Perfil newspaper, this and every Saturday...

by Jayson McNamara

Members of a neo-Nazi group in Mar del Plata receive prison sentences of four to nine years.

4-9 year sentences

Neo-nazis sentenced to jail time for hate crimes in Mar del Plata

04-05-2018 13:15 Local human rights groups, Jewish organisations and a team of federal prosecutors collaborated throughout 2017 to elevate the gang’s crimes to a public and oral trial.

by Jayson McNamara

BUENOS AIRES

Development in City prompts debate over gentrification, cultural heritage

28-04-2018 12:09 In some parts of the Buenos Aires, residents are fighting to retain the history and character of their beloved 'barrios'.

by Jayson McNamara

Airbnb’s Global Head of Policy and Communications Chris Lehane, pictured with Jujuy Governor Gerardo Morales.

GROWING TOURISM

AirBnB policy chief: ‘Tourism must work for communities’

21-04-2018 19:06 Chris Lehane, global head of policy and communications, of the successful Company visited Argentina last week to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of Jujuy, which will encourage shared tourism endeavours in that province.

by Jayson McNamara

Ousted Justicialist Party president José Luis Gioja.

GIOJA OUT, BARRIONUEVO IN

Peronism in crisis: Ousted leader Gioja cries foul over court intervention

11-04-2018 13:24 Federal Judge Servini de Cubría’s decision to intervene in the party has highlighted the major cracks in what is, traditionally, Argentina’s most powerful political party.

by Jayson McNamara

Participants of the 2016 march to commemorate the 1976 coup carry an anti-Macri sign.

42 years

Argentina to remember coup

23-03-2018 13:22 The anniversary finds a number of the country’s human rights organisations united around a shared opposition to the Mauricio Macri administration.

by Jayson McNamara

Estela de Carlotto, head of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Estela de Carlotto: 'Polarisation is stronger than ever because they provoke it'

03-03-2018 08:41 The Kirchners. Macri. Corrption. Bonafini. Guido. Chocobar. The future of the Grandmothers. Estela de Carlotto, on the record.

by Jayson McNamara

Relatives of the 52 people killed when a passenger train crashed at the Once train station gather at Platform 1 for the six year anniversary of the crash.

6-year anniversary

'Once' crash relatives: "We won’t stop until they’re behind bars"

22-02-2018 13:07 Several former Fernández de Kirchner government officials were found guilty of manslaughter in 2015, including former Transport secretaries Ricardo Jaime and Juan Pablo Schiavi. A Criminal Appeals Court will decide on the verdicts from April.

by Jayson McNamara

VIOLENCE, VANDALISM AND HATE CRIMES

Mar del Plata court set for unprecedented neo-Nazi trial

21-01-2018 08:30 A federal court in the Buenos Aires province seaside town will put eight men in the dock for a string of violent attacks, including against the LGBT and Bolivian communities.

by Jayson McNamara

Teachers unions are warming up for what are expected to be tense collective wage bargaining negotiations with provincial governments.

conflict ahead?

Tensions flare between gov’t, union movement as labour reform nears

19-01-2018 17:50 As a labour reform package nears a vote in Congress, unions say President Macri's latest decree package could threaten local jobs. Many union bosses remain on alert over a recent crackdown on union corruption.

by Jayson McNamara

Ana María Careaga meets with Pope Francis in Paraguay in 2015.

HUMAN RIGHTS

'The human rights movement has its own history, one which transcends politics'

14-01-2018 00:17 Author, activist and psychoanalyst Ana María Careaga on the ESMA megatrial, the death of Santiago Maldonado and the pontiff previously known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

by JAYSON MCNAMARA. ON TWITTER: @JAYSONMCNAMARA

INTERVIEW WITH CECILIA GONZÁLEZ, AWARD-WINNING MEXICAN JOURNALIST BASED IN BUENOS AIRES

"Mexican journalists are being killed, Argentine journalists are being fired"

07-01-2018 01:29 The author of several publications about journalism and organised crime, both here and in Mexico, she spoke to the Times about her views on the health of journalism in Argentina.

by JAYSON MCNAMARA. ON TWITTER: @JAYSONMCNAMARA

People pray next to the coffin of slain journalist Gumaro Pérez during his wake inside his mother’s home in Acayucan, Veracruz state. Pérez, who was 34, got his start as a journalist as a young man working for Diario de Acayucan, the local newspaper in the city of the same name.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH UNDER THREAT

Mexico’s bloody war on journalism

07-01-2018 01:21 Independent journalists in Mexico are reflecting on one of the worst years for their ravaged profession in living memory. In 2017, at least 10 reporters were murdered.

by Jayson McNamara

Carriers including Norwegian Air and FlyBondi plan to be up and running in first half of year – but union leaders express caution and concerns over infrastructure.

argentina

Low-cost airlines ready for take-off in 2018

06-01-2018 11:41 Carriers including Norwegian Air and FlyBondi plan to be up and running in first half of year – but union leaders express caution and concerns over infrastructure.

by Jayson McNamara

Chilean president-elect Sebastian Piñera greets President Michelle Bachelet (left) upon her arrival at his residence in Santiago on Monday. The 68-year-old conservative billionaire will return to power next year.

CHILE’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

‘Piñera will be forced to respond to the demands for change that began during his last term’

23-12-2017 23:58 Alexis Cortés, professor of political science and sociology at the University of Alberto Hurtado, on Michelle Bachelet’s legacy and the path ahead for Sebastián Piñera.

by Twitter: @JaysonMcNamara

There are an estimated 122,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in Argentina and while attempts to tackle the virus have made headway in recent years, experts are cautioning against complacency and calling for a more proactive approach.

International AIDS Day

Argentina’s ongoing struggle to tackle HIV/AIDS

09-12-2017 12:26 There are an estimated 122,000 people in Argentina living with HIV/AIDS. While attempts to tackle the virus have made headway in recent years, experts are cautioning against complacency and calling for a more proactive approach.

by Jayson McNamara

From left to right: Paola Bravo, Adam Resplandor, Irene Martínez and Alveiro Izarra.

600 ARRIVE TO ARGENTINA PER WEEK

Families flee crisis in Venezuela seeking new homes in BA

25-11-2017 10:52 Inflation in Venezuela is the highest in the world at around 1,100 percent, according to data compiled by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). With the exception of the upper classes and ruling elite, food shortages are a daily reality while looting and armed robberies are regular occurrences.

by JAYSON MCNAMARA. On Twitter: @JAYSONMCNAMARA