News of juan carlos

Abuelas announce discovery of 138th child taken by dictatorship

27-12-2024 20:50 Human rights group Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo confirms they have found the 138th missing grandchild snatched by the 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

COURTS & JUDICIARY

'They notified me I had to go,' says retiring Supreme Court justice

23-09-2024 14:27 Juan Carlos Maqueda, who will step down from his seat on the nation’s highest tribunal at the end of the year, reveals he was not consulted as to whether he wanted to continue in situ and was asked to leave by President Javier Milei’s government.

by Rodis Recalt

POLITICS & JUDICIARY

Government’s row with Supreme Court hits new heights

11-05-2023 23:36 Explosive reaction to ruling suspending gubernatorial elections in San Juan and Tucumán; President Alberto Fernández accuses justices of targeting Peronist candidates.

ELECTIONS 2023

Supreme Court suspends elections in San Juan, Tucumán

09-05-2023 18:19 Supreme Court suspends provincial elections in San Juan and Tucumán, just five days before voters are due to go to the ballot-box.

CRIME & SECURITY

Family seek justice for slain Catamarca minister

06-04-2023 18:00 The children of Juan Carlos Rojas, late Catamarca Province social development minister, denounce the “cover up” of their father’s brutal murder last December, providing photos of mutilated victim as proof of wrongdoing.

DIPLOMATIC SPAT

Ecuador and Argentina in diplomatic row over fugitive ex-minister

15-03-2023 10:34 Diplomatic spat escalates after it emerged María de los Ángeles Duarte, a convicted former cabinet minister who had been living in the Argentine Embassy in Quito, had escaped to Venezuela.

UNREST IN PERU

Peru judge extends ex-president Castillo's pre-trial detention to three years

10-03-2023 10:46 A Peruvian judge on Thursday extended former president of Peru Pedro Castillo's pre-trial detention to 36 months for "allegedly being the leader of a criminal organisation," the Supreme Court announced.