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Labor union leaders said Thursday they are paying close attention to what the libertarian president-elect says and what they are hearing is in opposition to their interests. “In the moment they move forward with reforms related to labor rights, both individual and collective, and when the labor organizations affected by these adjustments request it, the CGT will take a stance,” Dear said. “We expect absolutely nothing from Javier Milei.”Catalano was one of the representatives of labor unions and social organizations who joined the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in their weekly march in downtown Buenos Aires Thursday. There’s also concern among human rights organizations about a potential setback in policies that allowed for the prosecution of perpetrators of crimes against humanity during the dictatorship. Leaders of leftist social organizations also held a meeting Thursday to discuss their response to Milei’s policies and “a plan for struggle against austerity” that will involve street protests.

Persons: Javier Milei, ” Héctor, Pablo Biró, Milei, ”, ” Daniel Catalano, ” Catalano, There’s, “ it’s, Nicolás Saldías, ” Sadias, —, Débora Rey Organizations: Labor, Confederation, Airline Pilots Association, Aerolineas Argentinas, Milei, State Workers ’ Association, de Mayo, Economist Intelligence, Latin, Associated Press Locations: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, “, Buenos Aires, Latin America, Caribbean, ” Argentina

☆ Buenos Aires central square becomes nighttime soup kitchen as poverty hits 40%
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Miguel Lo Bianco | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Demonstrators camp outside the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace, as unemployed and informal workers protest to demand more subsidies from the national government, at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina April 19, 2023. Standing in a long line for food in the central square that is flanked by the Casa Rosada presidential palace, Erica Maya, 45, told Reuters she could earn just 3,000-4,000 pesos working all day collecting cardboard, worth $4 at real exchange rates. "We estimate the level of poverty in Argentina at 40% of the population," said Eduardo Donza, from the Social Debt Observatory of the Catholic University. "I have resorted to selling tortillas to find a way for my family and my daughter to survive," said Diego Ortiz, 30, as he cooked flour tortillas over hot coals in a Buenos Aires suburb. Reporting by Miguel Lo Bianco; Writing by Nicolas Misculin; Editing by Adam Jourdan and Rosalba O'BrienOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mariana Nedelcu, Erica Maya, Sergio Massa, Javier Milei, Conservative Patricia Bullrich, Eduardo Donza, Donza, Diego Ortiz, Miguel Lo Bianco, Nicolas Misculin, Adam Jourdan, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Casa, Plaza de Mayo, REUTERS, Reuters, Peronist, Economy, Conservative, Social, Catholic University, Thomson Locations: Buenos Aires, Argentina, BUENOS AIRES, de Mayo

☆ AI imagines kids of victims kidnapped during Argentina dictatorship
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Candelaria Grimberg | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

After Argentina's 1976 military coup, about 30,000 people including about 500 children and babies were killed or disappeared, almost all of them civilians. Mothers and grandmothers of the victims, the Abuelas of Plaza de Mayo, rose to prominence advocating for answers about their loved ones. The group, which has located 132 grandchildren, thanked the initiative but noted that DNA testing remains the "only infallible" identification method. Barros said he had always aimed to support Abuelas' mission, using AI as a way for younger generations to examine past atrocities. But "it does not replace the DNA samples or any of the Abuelas methods" such as investigating possible illegal adoptions and collecting DNA samples, he noted.

Persons: Santiago Barros, Marta Bugnone, Jorge Ayastuy, Argentina's, Read, Barros, Esteban Herrera, Abuelas, Herrera, Candelaria Grimberg, Lucila Sigal, Kylie Madry, Anna, Catherine Brigida, Richard Chang Organizations: Thomson Locations: Argentine, BUENOS AIRES, Instagram, Plaza de Mayo

☆ Argentina 'death flight' plane returned from US
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Miguel Lo Bianco | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The turboprop plane took part in the so-called "death flights" that Argentina's bloody 1976-1983 dictatorship employed as one of its tools to get rid of critics. At the request of relatives of the victims, Argentina's economy minister bought the plane and organized its transfer from the United States. It will be housed at a museum in the capital, Buenos Aires, on the site of a former clandestine detention and torture center where death flight victims were held before their murders. The Skyvan PA-51 was identified in 2010 by journalist and survivor of the dictatorship, Miriam Lewin, and the Italian photographer Giancarlo Ceraudo, using flight logs. About 30,000 people disappeared during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, according to human rights organizations.

Persons: Read, Alice Domon, Leonie Duquet, Azucena Villaflor, Cecila, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Fernandez de Kirchner, Sergio Massa, Miriam Lewin, Giancarlo Ceraudo, Miguel Lo Bianco, Lucila Sigal, Brendan O'Boyle, Gerry Doyle Organizations: de Mayo, Monday, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Argentine, Naval, de, BUENOS AIRES, United States, Buenos Aires, Italian

☆ Leader of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Argentina dies at 93
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Hebe de Bonafini, who became a human rights campaigner when her two sons were arrested and disappeared under Argentina’s military dictatorship, died Sunday, her family and authorities reported. She became president two years later and led the more radical of two factions of the organization until her death. Both had been members of leftist militant groups, one of them armed, de Bonafini later said. But they began gathering every Thursday, walking counterclockwise around a clocktower in the center of the plaza. Her defense of Kirchner and his wife and successor, Cristina Fernández, sometimes led to friction with other human rights groups who had criticized some of the leftist administration’s policies.

☆ Hebe de Bonafini, the mother who defied Argentina's dictatorship, dies at 93
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Hernan Nessi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BUENOS AIRES, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Hebe de Bonafini, the iconic co-founder of Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and a staunch fighter against the human rights violations committed during the country's military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, died on Sunday at the age of 93. Bonafini became one of Argentina's most famous human rights activists when she and 13 other women began searching for their children who were kidnapped by security forces during the dictatorship. Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner lamented Bonafini's passing on Twitter and the government called for three days of national mourning. "Dearest Hebe, Mother of Plaza de Mayo, you are a world symbol of the fight for Human Rights, and a pride of Argentina," Fernandez de Kirchner wrote. "As founder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, she shed light in the middle of the dark night of the military dictatorship."

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