Tag: Formosa

• Monday, October 28th 2024 - 07:45 UTC

  Argentine mayor says hitmen chased him while in Paraguay

  

  Atilio Basualdo, the Mayor of the Argentine city of Las Lomitas in the province of Formosa said Sunday that hitmen had tried to kill him while visiting neighboring Asunción in Paraguay on Saturday afternoon. He also hinted Formosa's Peronist Governor Gildo Insfran could have been involved.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  NGOs claim most deforestation in northern Argentina during 2021 was illegal

  

  Around 110,180 hectares of forest were destroyed in the Argentine provinces of Santiago del Estero, Formosa, Chaco, and Salta during the year 2021 as a result of illegal practices, according to Greenpeace.

• Friday, March 12th 2021 - 18:06 UTC

  Argentina: Terrorized pregnant indigenous women hide in forest fearful of police raids that snatch their babies

  

  Some eighty pregnant women from the Argentine indigenous Wichi people in the northern province of Formosa, ruled by Kirchnerite governor, Gines Insfran, hide in the forest fearful of having their babies snatched or forcefully taken to provincial hospitals where they are submitted to cesarean surgery.

• Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Social uprising in an ultra Kirchnerite province; UN and Amnesty warn about repression

  

  Formosa in the north of Argentina, next to Paraguay is one of the poorest provinces in the country and has been under the iron fist control and patronage of governor Gildo Insfran, who rules as a feudal lord, with virtual control of the three branches of the local government and excellent relations with the federal government in Buenos Aires where his deputies and senators support the ruling coalition in exchange for fat checks that ensure his perpetuity.

• Wednesday, February 3rd 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner political ally accused of human rights abuses in the province of Formosa

  

  Members of the opposition, international NGO’s and several Catholic and Anglican clerics, have criticized Gildo Insfran, the governor of Formosa, and a close political ally of Cristina Kirchner, for treating those who test positive for the coronavirus and their close contacts in an “inhuman” way, forcing them into public isolation centers for over 20 days.

• Wednesday, October 28th 2020 - 23:53 UTC

  “Why all the fuss about Malvinas and not a word on Formosa which Argentina should return to Paraguay?”

  

  “Why all the fuss about the Malvinas, all the indoctrination which starts at school claiming the Islands, and not a word about the province of Formosa which should be returned to Paraguay and we took as spoils of the Triple War in 1870?”, asks Argentine writer Federico Jeanmaire, a well-known author of several best sellers.

• Monday, August 24th 2015 - 09:13 UTC

  Carlitos Tevez shocked with poverty, causes an uproar in Argentina

  

  The Argentine football star Carlos Tevez, who played in England, Italy and is now back in Argentina caused a major uproar when during a television interview he said that in the northern province of Formosa he had come across poor people who were literally 'dead hungry'.

• Saturday, August 10th 2013 - 02:10 UTC

  Indigenous peoples in Argentina: “we don’t want to be considered strangers in our own country”

  

  “We want to live as human beings. We don’t want to be considered as strangers in our own country, poor or useless. We want to live without discrimination. We don’t want blood shed, we just want to reclaim our community,” said to Amnesty International Félix Díaz, leader of the Qom indigenous community of Potae Napocna Navogoh (La Primavera), in Argentina’s northern province of Formosa.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2013 - 08:06 UTC

  Argentina refuses to inform Paraguay on a nuclear reactor it is planning along the border

  

  The administration of President Cristina Fernandez rejected a request from Paraguay on the nuclear plant, and area of influence, Argentina plans to build in the neighbouring province of Formosa. The situation was exposed by Paraguayan lawmaker Olga Ferreira de Lopez who called the Argentine president a ‘perverse woman’.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 17:08 UTC

  Argentine indigenous people ask Francis to intercede before Cristina Fernandez

  

  Leaders of an Argentine indigenous community together with Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Perez Esquivel met on Monday with Pope Francis and requested he intercedes before Argentine president Cristina Fernandez so that she receives a delegation from the Qom community.