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Montevideo, April 3rd 2025 - 11:37 UTC

Tag: Milagro Sala

  • Friday, December 20th 2024 - 22:00 UTC

    Venezuela: Asylum seeker leaves diplomatic mission

    A former Transport and Communications Minister under former President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Martínez Mottola was also CEO of the State-run communications company Cantv

    Venezuelan authorities announced Friday that Fernando Martínez Mottola, one of the six asylum-seekers at what used to be Argentina's Embassy in Caracas now guarded by Brazil following the diplomatic breakup, turned up “voluntarily” Thursday before the Public Prosecutor's Office and testified about “a group of members of the extremist organization Vente Venezuela who are fugitives.”

  • Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 21:09 UTC

    Argentine President visits hospitalized convicted social leader

    Fernández urged the Courts to review Sala's cases

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Wednesday traveled to the province of Jujuy to pay a visit to social leader Milagro Sala, who has been hospitalized after suffering a deep vein thrombosis while under arrest.

  • Saturday, March 5th 2016 - 10:24 UTC

    UN requests to know why Argentine social leader Milagro Sala remains in jail

    Charges were filed against Sala in January for instigation of ''crimes and sedition'', after staging a sit-in against Jujuy Governor Gerardo Morales, an ally of Macri.

    United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention wants Argentine President Mauricio Macri to explain why social leader Milagro Sala has been in jail for almost two months. The request comes two weeks after the UN Group accepted a filing submitted by the Centre of Legal and Social Studies (CELS), Amnesty International and Andhes, a group of lawyers from the northern area of the country.