Tag: Eugenio Zaffaroni

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 09:18 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez wins a battle on her ongoing attack on the non submissive Judiciary

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and her followers might be having a rough time in the current round of local elections and primaries leading to the presidential vote next October, but her infighting skills remain intact: on her ongoing battle with the Judiciary branch she managed to put in check the Supreme Court.

• Tuesday, December 23rd 2014 - 04:05 UTC

  Buenos Aires Zoo orangutan granted writ of 'habeas corpus'

  

  Animal not just things. Unprecedented court ruling indicates that although not human, 29-year-old Sandra has the right to be set free to live in a Brazilian sanctuary.

• Monday, August 11th 2014 - 01:54 UTC

  Argentina/holdouts, a clash between 'global financial power and political power'

  

  A Judge from Argentina's Supreme Court joined the ongoing battle in New York between the Argentine government and the holdouts and slashed out at the US Supreme Court for rejecting to take the case back in June. Eugenio Zaffaroni argued that the conflict must be addressed in the context of “attacks from the global financial power on political power”.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 07:39 UTC

  Argentine Supreme court Judge blasts the police and the political elite

  

  To avoid a repeat of recent police strikes and the violence that followed the government should review the structure of Argentina’s police force, Supreme Court Justice Eugenio Zaffaroni declared, taking aim at both the country’s police and its political elite.