News of victims

Villarruel vows to reopen criminal cases against anti-junta guerrillas

28-08-2024 11:52 Criticism rains down from human rights groups as Vice-President Victoria Villarruel promises to reopen criminal cases against left-wing guerrillas in speech at Senate ceremony for victims of terrorism.

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Six dead as group tries to rescue worker from sewer well

18-03-2024 13:38 Tragedy strikes inhabitants of the town of Blaquier, in the district of Florentino Ameghino, when the news broke yesterday that six people had died in a sewage well rescue gone wrong.

IN FOCUS: VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT

Victoria Villarruel: First vice-president to play down dictatorship’s crimes

22-11-2023 11:37 By presenting herself as a militant of "complete memory," the La Libertad Avanza vice-president-elect has constructed her political figure around the controversial “theory of two demons,” equating left-wing killings with state terrorism.

Human rights

Ex-Trial of the Juntas judge: ‘Argentina should punish denialism by law’

20-09-2023 16:32 One of the judges who sat on the court that convicted Argentina’s military junta of crimes against humanity declares that “denialism tends to undermine the validity of the democratic rule of law.”

Human rights

Outcry at event puts Villarruel's dictatorship beliefs in spotlight

05-09-2023 16:23 Demonstrators protest against Victoria Villarruel's event paying tribute to "the victims of terrorism" held at the City Legislature.

BOOKS & LITERATURE

Relatives of María Kodama declared heirs of Jorge Luis Borges’ legacy

29-06-2023 15:32 Two nephews and three nieces of the late writer María Kodama, the widow of Jorge Luis Borges who died earlier this year, are declared universal heirs of the famous Argentine author’s copyright.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Venezuela rights abuse victims hopeful ICC will bring peace

12-04-2023 13:07 Victims of alleged human rights violations in Venezuela say they're hopeful an International Criminal Court probe into killings and torture will bring them some closure.

VIOLENCE IN ROSARIO

Campaigners in Rosario demand action in ‘capital of perfect crime’

15-02-2023 21:58 "They’re killing us and nobody does anything" – activist group Familiares y Víctimas de la Inseguridad makes new appeal to provincial and national governments; Narco violence continues to terrorise Rosario with 41 homicides since turn of the year.