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Montevideo, November 2nd 2024 - 15:40 UTC

Tag: German Garavano

  • Wednesday, July 17th 2019 - 23:59 UTC

    Macri paves way for Hezbollah to be deemed 'a terrorist organisation' in Argentina

    Macri's measures are considered to be a response to separate requests from the United States and Israel among other countries as well as from the local Jewish leadership.

    The Argentine Government has created the Public Registry of Persons or Entities Linked to Acts of Terrorism and its Financing (RePET), a tool whereby Hezbollah can be included. So far, local authorities adhered to the list penned by the United Nations, where Hezbollah is not included. President Mauricio Macri also decreed a day of national mourning to mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Israeli Social Welfare Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires. In a third measure, Macri gave the victims of that attack 180 days to file for monetary compensation from the state.

  • Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 07:40 UTC

    US hands Argentina thousands of declassified documents from the military dictatorship

    United States fulfilled a pledge made three years ago by then president Barack Obama when he honored the victims of the 1976-1983 military regimes

    The United States handed thousands of documents on Friday to Argentina on disappearances by the military dictatorship (1976/1983), completing Washington's biggest-ever transfer of documents to another government.

  • Monday, November 26th 2018 - 21:39 UTC

    Dollar climbs in Argentina as Macri worries about football violence

    Macri was publicly addressing the issue of football violence flanked by Ministers Patricia Bullrich and Germán Garavano while the US dollar was going up against the Argentine peso.

    Buenos Aires was still shaking around noon Monday from the weekend's Libertadores Cup fiasco. President Mauricio Macri was publicly addressing the issue for the first time at a press conference escorted by Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Justice Minister Germán Garavano. And with the spotlight there, the US dollar crept back up against the Argentine peso after a two-month nadir, closing at AR$ 39.9 per 1 US dollar at the end of the business day.

  • Saturday, March 19th 2016 - 05:41 UTC

    Praise for Obama's decision to declassify documents from the Argentine dictatorship

    Claudio Avruj considered the decision a “fundamental step” to shed light on Argentina’s darkest years and the involvement of the United States

    There is no doubt about the participation of the United States in Argentina’s bloody 1976-1983 military dictatorship, Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj said in Buenos Aires following the news that Washington announced it will declassify military and intelligence files from the Dirty War period ahead of Barack Obama’s visit to the country.

  • Monday, December 28th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

    Argentina's MOU with Iran sponsored by Cristina Fernandez, dropped by Macri

    Macri's first move was to drop the appeal filed by the Kirchnerite administration against the ruling that declared the agreement sealed with Tehran, unconstitutional

    Argentina's divisive 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran was finally dropped became after Argentine Federal Judges Juan Carlos Gemignani and Angela Ledesma accepted a request filed by the president Mauricio Macri administration Justice Ministry to drop the Executive’s appeal to the Federal Cassation Court.