Tag: Santiago Maldonado

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 23:49 UTC

  Team which identified unnamed bodies in Darwin on the brink of collapse as Argentine gov't withholds funds

  

  The Argentine Anthropology Forensics Team (EAAF) Thursday announced it will no be able to carry on with its work since the Argentine government had not wired the funds agreed upon.

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 18:00 UTC

  Autopsy shows body found is missing Santiago Maldonado and has no signs of violence

  

  The corpse found in Chubut River, in Argentine Patagonia, is Santiago Maldonado, it was confirmed late Friday by family members who recognized his body tattoos. Santiago lived in El Bolsón, a paradise for hippies in middle of Patagonia, precisely tattooing or living of small handicrafts in close contact with the Mapuche indigenous people who are in conflict with landowners and in recurrent clashes with security forces.

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 07:05 UTC

  Family confirm body recovered in Argentine Patagonia is that of missing activist

  

  The body recovered from a river bed in southern Argentina is that of a missing activist who disappeared two months ago during a police operation, his brother confirmed on Friday. Santiago Maldonado, a 28-year-old tattoo artist, was last seen being detained by paramilitary police as they moved to disperse a protest march by the Mapuche indigenous group in the Patagonia Chubut province, on August first.

• Thursday, October 19th 2017 - 07:52 UTC

  Election campaign suspended in Argentina following discovery of a body presumed to be missing protestor

  

  Major parties running in Sunday’s mid-term congressional election in Argentina suspended their campaigns on Wednesday after a body, thought to be that of a young protester who went missing more than two months ago, was found in a river.