Hundreds of people gathered in Cordoba City in the central region of Argentina for the inauguration of the Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara Ophthalmological Clinic on Thursday. It is part of the Operation Miracle health care initiative of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our America (ALBA), conceived by former Venezuelan and Cuban presidents, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, to provide free medical attention to people affected by visual diseases. Operation Miracle has restored the eyesight of millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean. The clinic was built by the A Better World is Possible Foundation with the endorsement of the Cuban and Venezuelan governments. It is inspired by the Cuban health care model and the Venezuelan Barrio Adentro medical program developed since 2004. Clinic Director Lucia Coronel said that the project is the result of years of work, while Che Guevara’s daughter Aleida said that the fact that the clinic has been built in a country that is not yet part of Alba means that “we do not work with government, but instead with peoples.”
domingo, 31 de mayo de 2015
Argentina: Che Guevara Eye Clinic Opens
miércoles, 27 de mayo de 2015
Argentina: Court Injunction Blocks Citibank Hedge Fund Transactions
The Argentine judiciary issued an injunction at the request of the Economy Ministry blocking Citibank from implementing any deal with hedge funds that would damage the national economy. The injunction will block the payment of locally issued bonds and require Citibank to abide by Argentine law and not agreements entered into by its home office with vulture funds. The court decision strengthens Argentina's defense of its national sovereignty against speculative movements by the vulture funds.
martes, 26 de mayo de 2015
Argentina: May Revolution Celebrated by a Million People
More than a million people turned out in Buenos Aires to celebrate the 205th anniversary of the May Revolution on Monday. Carmen Lorefice, a Mother of the Plaza de Mayo called for the continuation of policies implemented by ex President Nestor Kirschner since 2003 and carried on by his wife and current President Cristina Fernandez. The center of the celebrations was the historical Plaza de Mayo, where they wound up on Monday with a huge popular rally addressed by the President, who called on the people to defend what they have achieved in recent years.
lunes, 25 de mayo de 2015
Latin America's Largest Cultural Center Opens its Doors
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez inaugurated the Nestor Kirchner Cultural Center in Buenos Aires yesterday. The cultural center is Latin America's largest, covering 100,000 square meters. It is expected to receive five million visitors per year. In her opening remarks, Fernandez said that from 2003 to 2015, the Argentine government had allocated US$14 billion to cultural infrastructure, not including the cinema institute and other Cultural Ministry projects.
Argentina: Celebrations Mark May Revolution Continue
Celebrations continue in Argentina marking the May Revolution, which launched the country's War of Independence in 1810. The occasion is being marked by open air cultural festivals over the weekend in the emblematic Plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires featuring the country's top performers. Hundreds of thousands are expected to attend the concerts.
jueves, 21 de mayo de 2015
Argentina Nationalizes Railways
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez presided over a rally Wednesday to celebrate the recently enacted law nationalizing the country's railways and mark the anniversary of the May Revolution of 1810, which led to the nation's independence. The law is considered a major step in reasserting Argentine national sovereignty, undermined by previous neoliberal governments.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
martes, 19 de mayo de 2015
Argentina: Activists Seek to Raise Awareness of Gender Violence
Following the death last week of a pregnant teenager at the hands of her boyfriend, feminist activists, journalists, and political leaders in Argentina have begun to mobilize to increase public awareness of the problem of gender violence in the country. Their call has been widely publicized and supported in the social media and has now been taken up in the media as well. A demonstration is planned for June 3 in several cities to raise public consciousness and demand the adoption of public policies to address the issue.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
sábado, 16 de mayo de 2015
Argentina: Buenos Aires Mayoral Campaign Begins
The election campaign for mayor of Buenos Aires kicked off Friday with a mass rally of supporters of President Cristina Fernandez's Front for Victory. The coalition, with Mariano Ricalde as its candidate, seeks to elect a city government with progressive policies in line with those of the Fernandez administration. Elections will be held July 5 and if no candidate gains a majority, a second round of voting will be held.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
jueves, 14 de mayo de 2015
Int'l Political Film Festival Held in Buenos Aires
Actors, producers, and political activists gathered in the Argentine capital for the 5th International Political Film Festival. Filmmakers from 34 countries worldwide submitted 130 entries. The films being presented deal explicitly or implicitly with a broad range of social issues and beyond their entertainment value, help promote and popularize social and political struggles.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
domingo, 10 de mayo de 2015
Argentina: Summit Against Institutional Violence
As part of the agenda of the national campaign against institutional violence, the Argentine Congress held its Third Federal Summit for People’s Security on Friday. The event was attended by social, human rights and political movements, as well as relatives of victims of police violence. The goal of the Summit is to build a security model against police abuse and judicial prejudice against certain segments of the society. Spokespersons say the changes agreed upon will assure that the police version of an event is not the first to be consulted, but instead that families and community people are also consulted. They say it is urgent to make sure that people are not jailed, persecuted or punished for being poor.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires for teleSUR.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires for teleSUR.
viernes, 8 de mayo de 2015
Buenos Aires Mayor Refuses to Close Garment Sweatshops
In Buenos Aires, local legislators have accused Mayor Mauricio Macri of relaxing workplace safety controls to make it easier for garment sweatshops to operate. Macri is in the spotlight after a fire in one of the shops killed two children two weeks ago. The same place caught fire again last Thursday. According to grassroots organizations, around 35,000 people are exploited in sweatshops in Buenos Aires. The right-wing neoliberal mayor has no interest in protecting the victims of labor exploitation, say his critics. They charge that the city government has been well aware of the existence of the sweatshops through reports of the Special Prosecutor against Human Trafficking and several different NGOs, but has not moved to close them down.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires for teleSUR.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires for teleSUR.
jueves, 7 de mayo de 2015
Argentine Social Movt's Promote Educational Project
Argentine social, human rights, and political movements are promoting an educational project based on the ideas of the left-wing Brazilian philosopher and educator Paolo Freire. Popular education, as Freire's pedagogical methodology is known, proposes an proactive and critical education that furthers social transformation. The Buenos-Aires based School for the Rights of the Peoples of Abya Yala, the name given to the continent by the indigenous peoples of Colombia and Panama, seeks to educate activists, both local and from other Latin American countries, as well as the general public on human and social rights.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
miércoles, 6 de mayo de 2015
Argentina: Intellectuals Meet at Jose Marti Event
Argentine Ministers of Education, Social Development, and Foreign Affairs together with leading national and foreign academicians and intellectuals met in Buenos Aires on Monday for the 10th meeting of the World Council of the Jose Marti International Solidarity Project. The project aims to popularize the teachings of Jose Marti, the Cuban national hero and independence fighter and a leading figure in Latin American emancipation. The timeliness of Marti's thinking for today's Latin America was emphasized by participants in the gathering. The meeting was also attended by the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations Ernesto Samper.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
Laureano Ponce reports from Buenos Aires.
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