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Right-wing populist Javier Milei gains support in Argentina by blasting 'political caste'
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — He believes selling human organs should be legal, climate change is a “socialist lie,” sex education is a ploy to destroy the family and that the Central Bank should be abolished. He also could be Argentina’s next president. Javier Milei, an...
A growing number of LGBTQ+ Russians seek refuge from war, discrimination in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Anastasia Domini and wife Anna Domini walked hand in hand on a recent sunny day in Argentina’s capital while their four restless children played nearby. It's a common sight in a country where same-sex marriage has been legal for more than a decade....
Inflation in Argentina leaves families struggling to feed themselves
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Gimena Páez could barely pay her bills. Then inflation in Argentina started rising even faster. The value of the country's currency plunged, making most goods nearly unobtainable. Getting enough food for herself and her 11-year-old daughter became a...
Chile: Conservatives will now control Constitution rewrite
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile seemed on the cusp of a progressive revolution last year when a committee dominated by leftists drafted a bold new constitution to replace the country’s dictatorship-era charter. But voters have put the brakes on the effort, first rejecting the proposed constitution...
Argentina's Fernandez seeks dollar relief from Brazil's Lula
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Argentine President Alberto Fernández and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, vowed Tuesday to keep working to come up with a mechanism that would allow them to avoid using the U.S. dollar in trade between the neighboring nations. ...
Political prisoners share how Jimmy Carter saved their lives
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter tried like no president ever had to put human rights at the center of American foreign policy. It was a turnabout dictators and dissidents alike found hard to believe as he took office in 1977. The U.S. had such a long history of supporting crackdowns on popular...
Argentina: A desperate search for a door as currency tumbles
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Antonela Massarelli desperately needed a front door for the new house she and her family will move into this weekend in a Buenos Aires suburb. The 29-year-old mother of two said she found one prospect Tuesday morning at about 20,000 pesos, but noted...
Pope Francis hopes to visit native Argentina next year
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Pope Francis said he hopes to travel to his native Argentina in 2024, which would mark the first time he would step foot in his homeland since becoming pontiff a decade ago. “I want to go to the country next year,” the pope said in an interview...
Argentina's President Fernández won't seek reelection
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández announced Friday he won’t seek reelection for a second term this year, a decision that follows months of infighting among the ruling coalition as it grapples with a fragile economy and galloping inflation. ...
Climate tension: UN chief chides Biden, other world leaders
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres bluntly challenged the climate efforts of President Joe Biden and other world leaders Thursday in a message for a White House summit, charging that expanded oil and gas drilling and other policies of the richest countries amount to a...
