Tag: Plaza de Mayo

• Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  Argentina wants 1955 bombings to become a crime against humanity

  

  Argentine authorities have asked the Judiciary to stage a “trial for the truth” about June 16, 1955, bombings at Plaza de Mayo during the military revolution that ousted then-President Juan Domingo Perón.

• Saturday, March 25th 2023 - 10:57 UTC

  Argentina: Human Rights groups commemorate 24M at Plaza de Mayo

  

  Human rights and leftwing militants convened Friday at Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the last military coup d'état in the country and to insist that “Never Again” should democracy be taken away from Argentines.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Leftwing organizations hold bartering fair in front of Casa Rosada

  

  Social organizations have staged a countertrade fair at Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo (in front of Casa Rosada, the Presidential HQ) and at other squares nationwide to protest against what they call the demise of the monthly wage.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  Argentines rally at Plaza de Mayo against attack on CFK

  

  Thousands of Argentines gathered Friday at Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo to express their support for Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and condemn any act of violence as a means to solve political differences. Similar demonstrations were held nationwide at each city's main square.

• Friday, September 2nd 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Kirchnerism to gather at Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo

  

  Argentine authorities have called the citizenry to stage a demonstration at noon Plaza de Mayo in support of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner following the assassination attempt against her.

• Monday, April 25th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentine opposition steals show of rural producers marching onto Plaza de Mayo

  

  Argentina's opposition leaders of the Juntos por el Cambio (JxC - Together for Change) took center stage during Saturday's tractorazo (tractor caravan) towards Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo with which rural producers protested against several measures from the administration of President Alberto Fernàndez which were detrimental to them.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2021 - 22:50 UTC

  Argentine surrealism: turning a major defeat into a victory celebration

  

  “On Wednesday, I'm inviting you to celebrate this great triumph by filling the Plaza de Mayo with militants,” Argentine president Alberto Fernandez announced calling the trade unions and the organizations of picketers in support of Sunday's midterm election “great win”. Likewise one of his most loquacious candidates Victoria Tolosa Paz argued, actually “losing we are winning, and those winning are losing”.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo hope to find more missing grandchildren thanks to covid-19 vaccination pictures

  

  Argentine victims of disappearances and child abductions during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 are relying on vaccination efforts to help them find some of their 300 missing grandchildren.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  Mothers of Mayo impede an official audit of their assets as part of a bankruptcy inquiry

  

  The group of mothers of people who disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship sent a government official packing on Monday after he tried to conduct an audit of their assets as part of a bankruptcy investigation.