We filed a criminal complaint against the highest authorities of the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) for abuse of authority. The National Intelligence Plan and the operational order that came to light in recent days violate the law.
More than twenty regional and global organizations urge the OAS to condemn the new legislation as a democratic setback. We, in turn, call on the Trump administration not to support these measures and on the Bukele administration to repeal the law in order to comply with its international obligations.
Deterioration in the right to protest and freedom of expression, rollback of memory policies, weakening of protections for LGBTIQ+ rights, austerity measures affecting pensioners, and a rise in child poverty, are among the critical issues the Commission warned about in its annual report. We summarize the Commission’s key findings.
In a short time, Javier Milei’s government has cemented a difficult scenario for journalism in Argentina through the closing of public media outlets, the discretional use of state advertising, and authorities’ stigmatization of and aggression against journalists. Such obstacles to freedom of the press undermine democracy.
Labeled as terrorists without any judicial process, at least 260 people were deported from the US and detained in the Salvadoran CECOT after an agreement between Trump and Bukele. Together with organizations from around the world, we call on the UN Security Council to investigate the situation and demand the releases
More than 35 international and regional organizations call on the argentine government to comply with its international obligations on the right to protest and to investigate the police action on March 12. They also express their solidarity with the demand of decent pensions and concern about the rise of authoritarianism in Argentina.
The mobilization outside Congress demanding a pension increase on March 12 was violently repressed in a large-scale operation involving five security forces. Security Minister Patricia Bullrich had warned in advance that there would be repression. Tear gas, rubber bullets, and arbitrary detentions marked a day in which the government justified its actions by invoking the narrative of an “attempted coup.”
