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Thousands of women march in Latin American cities calling for abortion rights
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green Thursday as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. Latin American feminists have spent decades fighting to roll back strict prohibitions, although there...
Rising poverty grips Argentina as runaway inflation takes its toll
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — With tired faces, residents of a homeless shelter in Argentina’s capital pass through the main entrance and line up to receive a hot drink and a slice of cake for an afternoon snack. Places like the Bepo Ghezzi Social Inclusion Center in the Parque...
Brazil's top court opens vote on decriminalizing abortion up to 12th week of pregnancy
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s top court opened a session Friday that will decide whether abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy will be decriminalized nationwide. The South American nation currently allows abortions only in cases of rape, an evident risk to the mother’s health...
South America's 2030 World Cup soccer bid seeks to rise above political tensions in the region
SAO PAULO (AP) — The bid by four South American countries to host soccer's 2030 World Cup will stay intact until next year regardless of political tensions in the region, a top team bid official says. Michael Boys, the executive secretary of the bid of Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay...
Argentina's former detention and torture site added to UNESCO World Heritage list
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina on Tuesday welcomed a decision by a United Nations conference to include a former clandestine detention and torture center as a World Heritage site. A UNESCO conference in Saudi Arabia agreed to include the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory in...
Today in History: September 19, Unabomber manifesto published in New York Times, Washington Post
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Sept. 19, the 262nd day of 2023. There are 103 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 19, 1995, The New York Times and The Washington Post published the manifesto of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski...
U.S. judge orders Argentina to pay $16 billion for expropriation of YPF oil company
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A U.S. judge ruled that Argentina must pay $16.1 billion to minority shareholders of state-controlled oil company YPF due to the government’s 2012 nationalization of a majority stake in the firm. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in New York issued...
Tucker Carlson erupts into Argentina's presidential campaign with Javier Milei interview
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Milei railed against socialism and praised Donald Trump in an interview with U.S. host Tucker Carlson that has underlined how global attention is focusing on Argentina since Milei emerged as the frontrunner in the country's...
Paintings on pesos illustrate Argentina's currency and inflation woes
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A jaguar lies beside George Washington. The United States’ first president holds a rifle with one hand as he rests the other on the dead Argentine predator. The backdrop is a U.S. dollar and an Argentine 500-peso note joined like a book, a clear...
Argentine inflation keeps soaring, putting the government on the defensive as elections near
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Consumer prices in Argentina soared 12.4% in August, compared to the previous month, the highest rate since February 1991, a number that puts the government on the defensive a little more than a month before presidential elections in which a right-wing populist who...
