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Argentina has become the first Latin American nation to legalize same-sex marriages following a marathon Senate vote.
The law, backed by the center-left government of Cristina Kirchner, the president, was adopted in a 33-27 vote after 15 hours of debate ending...
UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (UPI) -- Argentina took its claim over British-ruled Falkland Islands to a U.N. meeting on decolonization with the clear aim of capitalizing on the talks' agenda. The usually placid annual session of the U.N. Decolonization Committee, C24, was...
Uruguay’s concerns over the food import ban have developed into a discussional tit-for-tat, with Argentina’s Interior Minister confirming yesterday that the government “has not halted imports”.
...Uruguay should have informed Argentina about its plans to build two paper mills on the banks of a river they share, the UN's top court has ruled.
But the International Court of Justice in The Hague said Uruguay had not violated its environmental obligations and the...
Former dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, has been convicted for human rights violations committed between 1976 and 1978 at the Campo de Mayo army base and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Human rights groups praise the ruling but claim that there are hundreds more accused of similar abuses that...
A British rig has begun drilling for oil in the territorial waters of the Falkland Islands, despite strong opposition from Argentina.
The platform has been towed to a point 100km (62 miles) north of the UK territory in the South Atlantic.
Argentina claims...
Reviewed: Sin Patron: Stories From Argentina’s Worker-Run Factories, edited by Lavaca, 320 pages, Haymarket Books, 2007.
Following the social upheaval in Argentina in 2001-2002 a book was published in Spanish that a lot of activists and independent journalists in the country...
Worldwide, industrial mono-culture farming has displaced traditional food production and farmers, wreaking havoc on food prices and food sovereignty. This is particularly true for the global south, where land has been concentrated for crops destined for biodiesel and animal feed....
