Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: Gun jams during bid to kill Argentina vice-president
By Alex Binley & Matt Murphy
BBC News
2 hours ago
Argentina's vice-president has narrowly avoided assassination after a gunman's weapon jammed as he aimed at her.
Footage shows the moment Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - surrounded by a mob of supporters - found herself face-to-face with the loaded weapon.
The former president was returning home from court, where she faces allegations of corruption. She denies the charges.
Police said the gunman, who local media identified as a 35-year-old Brazilian man, has been taken into custody.
They are attempting to establish a motive for the attack on the left-leaning politician, who was Argentina's president from 2007 to 2015, and its first lady for four years before that.
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James Cleverly says Falklands are British as Argentina ends deal
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The UK has insisted the Falkland Islands are British after Argentina broke a co-operation deal and pushed for talks on the islands' sovereignty.
In 2016, both sides agreed to disagree on the sovereignty of the Falklands in favour of improved relations.
Argentina pulled out of the pact this week and informed UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.
The Falkland Islands were subject to a bloody war in 1982 when Argentina tried to stake a territorial claim.
In response, Mr Cleverly tweeted: "The Falkland Islands are British. Islanders have the right to decide their own future - they have chosen to remain a self-governing UK Overseas Territory."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64835605
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The UK has insisted the Falkland Islands are British after Argentina broke a co-operation deal and pushed for talks on the islands' sovereignty.
In 2016, both sides agreed to disagree on the sovereignty of the Falklands in favour of improved relations.
Argentina pulled out of the pact this week and informed UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.
The Falkland Islands were subject to a bloody war in 1982 when Argentina tried to stake a territorial claim.
In response, Mr Cleverly tweeted: "The Falkland Islands are British. Islanders have the right to decide their own future - they have chosen to remain a self-governing UK Overseas Territory."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64835605
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PSG's Lionel Messi receives threatening note after family's store attacked in Argentina
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Mar 2, 2023
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Mar 2, 2023
Gunmen left a threatening message for Paris Saint-Germain forward Lionel Messi after attacking a supermarket owned by his in-laws in Rosario, Argentina, Rosario police confirmed on Thursday.
Fourteen shots were reportedly fired at the shutters and front door of the food store "Unico," which is located in the Lavalle district of Rosario, in the early hours of Thursday by two individuals on a motorbike.
Nobody was injured in the early morning attack, and it was unclear why assailants would target Messi or the Unico supermarket in the country's third-largest city of Rosario, owned by the family of his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo.
Police also said the attackers left a threatening note written on a piece of cardboard that said: "Messi, we are waiting for you. Javkin is a drug dealer. He is not going to look after you."
An investigation is underway. Pablo Javkin is the mayor of Rosario, the largest city in the central province of Santa Fe, 300 kilometres (186 miles) north of Buenos Aires in Argentina.
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Argentina Election Results PASO 2023
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Argentines will be voting on October 22 in the presidential election’s first round where the main candidates will be competing in a three-way race. To win outright in the first round, a candidate must either garner 45% of the vote on their own, or reach 40% and be 10 points ahead of the runner-up. At stake is a major market reaction as the country braces for a potential pendulum swing in politics that could fuel more financial volatility.
Outsider Javier Milei showed surprising strength in Sunday’s open primaries, amassing the most votes among all groups, with over 90% of voting tables counted. Patricia Bullrich won the main pro-business opposition’s primary election, topping challenger Horacio Rodriguez Larreta. The incumbent left-wing government’s group, which will be represented by Sergio Massa in the general election, trailed their opposition by several points.
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This doesn't need to be merged into the South America, general thread as it deals with articles specifically dealing with the continent overall, as both Brazil and Argentina are the main two countries and have separate threads within this continent
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Javier Milei Says He’s the Future of Argentina. He Looks a Lot Like Its Past.
by Eamon Whalen
August 21, 2023
Introduction:
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August 21, 2023
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Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... riedman/(Mother Jones) After finishing first in Argentina’s primary elections on Sunday, Javier Milei is the leading candidate to become the next president of the South American country. A former pugilistic television talking head, the libertarian economist has been dubbed “a new Trump.”
But that’s not quite right.
Yes, Milei, who has served in Congress since 2021, represents the type of outsider politician we’ve seen all around the world. He channels a broad distrust of government and mainstream institutions into populist anti-politics. But in a 2017 profile, Milei gave himself nicknames more indicative of his beliefs: Adam Smith’s heir; the Mozart of Economics; the Keynesian Wrecker. What makes Milei different from his (not particularly) ideological ilk—notably former presidents Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, both of whom he admires—is that Milei is a true believer in libertarian economics.
Milei wants to abolish the Argentine central bank and dollarize the economy. He wants to end public education and replace it with a voucher system. He wants to privatize healthcare and legalize the free trade of human organs. Milei has said that he will eliminate the health, education, and environment ministries and replace them with a one-stop shop “Ministry of Human Capital.” He downplays climate change and wants to make it easier for Argentines to own handguns. As he said during the campaign, his plan is to “change the logic of social policy, where we go from giving people fish to teaching them how to fish.”
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