Tens of thousands of protesters marched peacefully through the Argentine capital on Wednesday demanding an independent judiciary, as the country reels from the death of a state prosecutor who had been investigating the president. The protest, one of the biggest during President Cristina Fernandez’s seven years in power, took place a month after a state…
Argentina’s government toned down its stinging criticism of opponents on Wednesday ahead of what is expected to be one of the largest street protests of embattled President Cristina Fernandez’s seven years in power. Fernandez’s final year in office is in turmoil after the murky death a month ago of Alberto Nisman, a state investigator who…
An Argentine prosecutor on Friday said he was taking over an investigation into claims President Cristina Fernandez tried to cover up Iran’s role in a 1994 bombing, after the previous prosecutor died mysteriously last month. The appointment of Gerardo Pollicita as the new state investigator on the case ensures the probe will continue after prosecutor…
(Reuters) — The investigation into the death of an Argentine prosecutor who leveled criminal charges against the president has become too politicized and needs the involvement of a regional human rights commission, the dead man’s ex wife said on Thursday. Minutes before the Senate passed a bill creating a new state security service to replace…
Argentines around the world will mark the one-month anniversary of the unexplained death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman. The judicial employees union and prosecutors in Argentina called for silent marches throughout the country on Feb. 18 to mark one month since Nisman was found shot dead in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment….
(Reuters) — Argentine investigators failed on Thursday to track down a former spymaster wanted for questioning over the death of a prosecutor who had accused President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran’s alleged role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center. Prosecutors were unable to locate ex-counterintelligence boss Antonio Stiusso at three different addresses…
An Argentine prosecutor found dead in mysterious circumstances last month had drafted a request that President Cristina Fernandez be arrested for conspiring to derail his probe into the deadly bombing of a Jewish center, the investigator into his death said on Tuesday. The papers were found in the trash at Alberto Nisman’s apartment while his…
(Reuters) — President Cristina Fernandez has portrayed Argentina’s spy agency as sinister, accountable to no one, and possibly responsible for the mysterious death of a prominent prosecutor in his Buenos Aires apartment. As a result, Fernandez declared this week, the Intelligence Secretariat needs to be totally shut down – and a new agency built from…
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