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Montevideo, May 7th 2025 - 01:36 UTC

Tag: Gildo Insfran

  • Tuesday, December 3rd 2024 - 09:17 UTC

    Argentine Senator wants federal intervention in his province

    Paoltroni insisted Formosa was not an isolated case of authoritarianism

    Argentine Senator Francisco Paoltroni went to Casa Rosada Monday to deliver a draft bill to President Javier Milei to impose a federal intervention in the province of Formosa and put an end to the neverending rule of Peronist Governor Gildo Insfran, who has turned the territory into virtually his private ranch: “There is no other institutional way”, the national lawmaker from Formosa explained through social media.

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

    Argentine mayor says hitmen chased him while in Paraguay

    Basualdo insisted he was not aligned with Insfrán's faction within Formosa's Peronist Party

    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.

  • Monday, June 26th 2023 - 08:26 UTC

    Tight win for ruling party in Argentine province of Córdoba

    Llaryora claimed victory at 2 am Monday

    After Sunday's gubernatorial elections in the Argentine province of Córdoba, Martín Llaryora of the ruling front led by Governor Juan Schiaretti was congratulated as the winner by politicians from almost every party.

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

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

    Gildo Insfran, the governor who has dominated the Formosa province for the last 25 years, is praised by president Alberto Fernandez

    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

    Insfran is from the Justicialista Party has been the governor of the province of Formosa since 1995

    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.

  • Saturday, April 30th 2016 - 10:57 UTC

    A natural size bronze statue of Kirchner found during Argentine prosecutors raids in Santa Cruz

    The statue was discovered by the Argentine Federal Police in one of several warehouses in Rio Gallegos, where Baez kept his fleet of expensive luxury cars.

    The mega judicial raids in Argentina into the properties of arrested Kirchnerite businessman Lazaro Baez and his family, in the southern province of Santa Cruz, so far have found less cash than rumored but far more assets that expected, including some surprises such as a full size bronze statue of former president Nestor Kirchner.

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

    Carlitos Tevez shocked with poverty, causes an uproar in Argentina

    The former Manchester City striker triggered controversy on his description of poverty conditions in the northern province of Formosa

    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'.

  • Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 17:08 UTC

    Argentine indigenous people ask Francis to intercede before Cristina Fernandez

    Pope Francis, Qom leader and Perez Esquivel (Centre)

    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.