Tag: Alberto Nisman

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  If Argentine prosecutor Nisman was murdered, the U.N. should conduct the investigation into his death

  

  The following opinion column was written by Andres Oppenheimer, an Argentine journalist who has been living in the United States for several decades and is an expert in Latin American affairs.

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Iran upsets Argentine president with comments on the still unsolved death of special prosecutor Nisman

  

  An Iranian accused of involvement in the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina has added to speculation over the mysterious death of a prosecutor who investigated the attack.

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Nisman's death controversy reignited: “there isn't a shred of proof” he was murdered, says president Fernandez

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday he doubts that a prosecutor who died two days after accusing former President Cristina Kirchner of a cover-up in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre committed suicide. But he insisted “there isn't a shred of proof” that Alberto Nisman was murdered, as his family insists.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:30 UTC

  An intriguing Netflix's production, “The prosecutor, the president and the spy”

  

  Netflix will be launching on January first a six-chapter film on one of the most intriguing criminal cases in recent Argentina history, still unsolved, which refers to the killing of former special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, and which was first categorized as suicide.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez under fire from Zion organization for comments on “oranges from Israel”

  

  Former president of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has come under fire from Argentina’s Jewish community after referring to fruit imports from Israel.

• Friday, July 19th 2019 - 10:48 UTC

  Macri wants those behind the AMIA attack to be tried in Argentina

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri Thursday pledged to continue to seek that the people involved in the 1994 bombing of the Israeli Social Service Associacion (AMIA) “be tried in Argentine territory” to bring impunity to an end, once “the weight of the law has reached those responsible.”

• Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  A unique monument pays tribute to the victims of the AMIA bombing

  

  By Eduardo Eurnekia - On July 18, 1994, the center of Buenos Aires, the bustling capital of Argentina, was shattered by a huge explosion. A suicide bomber drove his explosives-loaded van into the building of the Jewish Community (AMIA-Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina), killing 85 people and injuring hundreds.

• Saturday, June 15th 2019 - 08:24 UTC

  Argentina hosts regional summit on Hezbollah, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the AMIA bombing

  

  The United States and Argentina convened this week a two-day regional summit in Buenos Aires to address the Hezbollah threat in the Western Hemisphere. The summit on Tuesday and Wednesday was held a month ahead of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish centre in the Argentine capital.

• Saturday, January 19th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Four years on ex prosecutor Nisman’s death remains unsolved, as the AMIA attack from 1994

  

  Israeli and Jewish leaders on Friday marked the fourth anniversary of Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s murder by unveiling a memorial plaque in his honour at the Ben Shemen forest in central Israel.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 06:52 UTC

  Nisman's ex-wife, fearing for her family, drops out of lawsuit into the death of her former husband

  

  Argentine federal Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, ex-wife of the late AMIA Jewish center prosecutor Alberto Nisman, removed herself from a lawsuit that prompted an investigation into the death of her former husband.