Tag: Rafael Bielsa

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Ambassador says Jones-Huala may serve out his sentence in Argentina

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Chile Rafael Bielsa Monday said the newly-paroled Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala “could serve the rest of his sentence in Argentina.”

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• Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 23:05 UTC

  Kast is very much anti-Argentine, says ambassador

  

  Argentina's Ambassador in Santiago, Rafael Bielsa, said right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast, who finished first in Sunday's elections was an anti-Argentine Pinochetist “that dares speak its name” and likened him to former US President Donald Trump and current Brazilian head of state Jair Bolsonaro.

• Wednesday, October 20th 2021 - 21:00 UTC

  Governor of Argentine province of Río Negro seeks help from federal authorities to fight Mapuche rebels

  

  The Governor of the Argentine province of Río Negro Wednesday requested assistance from the federal administration to cope with increasing violence from so-called Mapuche groups claiming their alleged rights to ancestral lands.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentine ambassador unsuccessfully defends Jones-Huala

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Chile Rafael Bielsa has turned up at a Chilean judicial hearing to defend incarcerated self-proclaimed Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala even though the latter has vociferously relinquished his Argentine citizenship.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 07:49 UTC

  Argentina apologizes to Chile for saying Magellan Strait and Drake Passage are shared spaces with joint control

  

  Argentina had to back step and apologize to Chile following on statements that the Magellan Strait and the Drake Passage, were “shared spaces”, and which “both countries jointly explored, studied and controlled”.

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Kirchnerite old hands back in the foreign ministry; Argüello ambassador in US and Bielsa in Chile

  

  Kirchnerite old hands are back at the Argentine ministry of foreign affairs and worship. The most outstanding is Jorge Argüello who was appointed ambassador in Washington but at the same time coordinator of other appointments in the different multilateral and regional organizations in the US capital, such as IMF, World Bank, Inter American Development Bank and the OAS.

• Friday, January 16th 2015 - 06:54 UTC

  Prosecutor Nisman confirms case against Cristina Fernandez and reveals further evidence

  

  Argentina's AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman confirmed his complaint against President Cristina Fernandez and several other officials over an alleged “criminal deal of impunity” with Iran and explained the role of every one of those he accused for “covering up” Teheran’s involvement in the attack against the Jewish centre in 1994 in Buenos Aires.