Capybaras occupy Buenos Aires suburb; no demands yet issued

KHOU 11 reports that an army of capybaras has overrun Tigre, a suburb of Buenos Aires, and begun breeding there.

COUNTLESS CAPYBARAS: People living in this community in Argentina have a lot of furry, four-legged neighbors. Local media reports hundreds of capybaras have overrun a suburb in Tigre, and the population has been increasing over the years.

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Capybaras take over upscale neighborhood in Argentina

In Nordelta, an upscale suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina, capybara’s have been finding a new home. Capybara’s are giant South American rodent species weighing roughly 120 lbs. and 3 feet in height and hordes of them have decided they would like to share the neighborhood with the people, mostly because there is no place else to live. — Read the rest

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Argentinians protest for more jobs, food amid economic crisis

About 42 percent of people in Argentina live below the poverty line amid an economic downturn worsened by COVID-19.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/7/argentinians-protest-for-more-jobs-food-amid-economic-crisis
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Argentina breaches 100,000 COVID deaths amid deepening crisis

Argentina, which saw recent surge of coronavirus infections, is fifth Latin American nation to reach 100,000-deaths.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/15/argentina-surpasses-grim-milestone-of-100000-covid-deaths
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Fed up, Argentina’s domestic workers demand a better deal

Argentina’s domestic workers, badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic, are unionising for better pay and job security. 

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/24/fed-up-argentinas-domestic-workers-demand-a-better-deal
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Uproar after Argentina president says ‘Brazilians came from the jungle’

Misjudged comments to prime minister of Spain sought to play up the South American country’s ties with Europe

Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernández, has triggered a Twitter storm and a regional race debate with misjudged comments to visiting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain that sought to play up the South American country’s ties with Europe.

“The Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle, but we Argentines came from the ships. And they were ships that came from Europe,” Fernández said, referring to the many European migrants who arrived in the country. He later apologized for the comments and said his country’s diversity was something to be proud of.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/09/argentina-president-comments-uproar
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Brazil to host 2021 Copa America after Argentina ruled out

Postponed South American football tournament scheduled to be played between June 13 and July 10.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2021/5/31/brazil-to-host-copa-america-after-argentina-drops-due-to-covid
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Argentina sends out DNA kits in drive to identify thousands ‘disappeared’ under dictatorship

Move is part of groundbreaking effort to name 30,000 murdered by regime after 1976 coup

The Argentinian government has sent hundreds of DNA testing kits to its consulates around the world in a groundbreaking effort to put names to unidentified victims murdered in the “Dirty War” waged by the brutal military dictatorship four decades ago.

Last month, the Argentinian authorities, in collaboration with the National Commission for the Right to Identity, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo movement and investigators from the Argentinian Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), launched its international Right to Identity campaign, committed to putting a name to every woman, man and child killed by the military junta in Argentina in the 1970s and early 80s.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/may/28/argentina-sends-dna-test-kits-embassies-find-juntas-disappeared-victims
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Giant River Otter Believed to Be Extinct Has Been Spotted in Argentina

Otters are some of the cutest and most fun animals on Earth. It’s always a joy to see them in the wild. That was doubly so for the conservationists at Fundación Rewilding who recently spotted a wild giant river otter swimming in the Bermejo River in Impenetrable National Park, located in the Chaco province of…

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Argentina announces strict coronavirus lockdown amid case surge

Businesses, schools and social activities will be suspended from Saturday until May 31 as new COVID infections surge.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/21/argentina-announces-strict-pandemic-lockdown-after-case-surge
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Where’s the beef? Argentina limits beef exports

The government is limiting beef exports temporarily to try to tame runaway inflation that’s nearing 50 percent annually.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/5/18/wheres-the-beef-argentina-limits-beef-exports
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Strange white orbs wash up on Argentina beach

On the lovely beach of Mar del Plata in Argentina, 250 miles south of Buenos Aires, thousands of white translucent orbs started to appear all along the beach this past weekend. These large pearl-esque objects were actually snail eggs. They are embryos of the carnivorous snail Adelomelon brasiliana, which lives near the coast of southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina and can grow up to 8 inches in length. — Read the rest

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Activists demand sexual violence against Argentina’s indigenous people be classified a hate crime

The attacks are common in northern Argentina against women and children – including one victim who was just four years old

Ana* was on her way home from school with her young cousin when it happened. “She managed to run away, but I didn’t,” she said, her voice trembling. “They put me in a car. They were white men. And they raped me.”

Ana’s ordeal wasn’t an isolated incident, but part of a horrific pattern of brutal sexual violence inflicted on indigenous children and women in northern Argentina by non-indigenous men, often in groups.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/18/argentina-indigenous-sexual-violence-hate-crime
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Argentina’s president decries ‘unforgivable’ vaccine scandal

Country’s health minister resigned late on Friday after reports he helped people jump queue to receive coronavirus jabs.

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Carlos Menem, former president of Argentina, dies aged 90

Menem, who served as president from 1989 to 1999, had been hospitalised for pneumonia several times in recent months.

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Argentina is now largest Latin American nation with legalized elective abortion

Government officials and women’s groups will be monitoring its full implementation despite opposition from some conservative and church groups.

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Bill legalizing abortion passed in pope’s native Argentina

The measure would make Argentina the largest Latin American country to legalize abortion.

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Argentina on brink of historic vote to legalise abortion

Senate to debate bill that would make it first major Latin American country to allow terminations

Argentina is on the verge of making history as the first major Latin American country to legalise abortion.

Its 72-member senate will convene on Tuesday to debate a bill that was approved by the lower house earlier this month to the delight of pro-choice activists.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/28/argentina-on-brink-historic-vote-legalise-abortion
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Argentina moves closer to historic abortion legalisation

A pro-abortion movement, symbolized by a green handkerchief, has swept through Latin America, where abortion is punishable by law

Belén ended up in jail after suffering a spontaneous miscarriage. Unaware that she was pregnant, the 25-year-old went to seek medical care at a hospital in Argentina’s northern province of Tucumán when she suffered abdominal pain.

In accordance with Argentina’s stringent anti-abortion legislation, Belén (not her real name) was reported by the hospital to the authorities and sentenced to eight years in prison for homicide. She did not regain her freedom until almost three years later, in 2017, after a feminist lawyer who took up her case convinced the Tucumán supreme court to overturn her conviction.

“There are many Beléns in Argentina and this madness will continue until abortion is legalized,” said Ana Correa, pro-abortion campaigner and author of the book Somos Belén (We Are Belén).

That long-awaited moment may be about to arrive.

Argentina is expected to move one step away from becoming the first major Latin American nation to legalize abortion on Thursday, when the lower house of congress votes on a legal abortion bill sponsored by president Alberto Fernández. The president holds a majority in the lower house, and a government source said the senate could vote the move into law as soon as next week.

The push for reform in Argentina is part of a pro-abortion “green wave” sweeping through Latin America, symbolized by the green handkerchief that has become the campaign’s instantly-recognizable flag across the entire region.

“The women of Argentina now enjoy the encouragement of all Latin America, where the green handkerchief is being raised up high from north to south,” said Claudia Piñeiro, an Argentinian author who has spent years campaigning for legal abortion.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/09/argentina-legalize-abortion-bill-congress-vote
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Argentine police evict protesters occupying contested land

Argentine police have clashed with a group of protesters while evicting them from makeshift homes on a contested property south of the capital, Buenos Aires

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/argentine-police-evict-protesters-occupying-contested-land-police-police-land-protesters-protesters-b1424727.html
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