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Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Argentina to protest against cuts in the higher education sector. According to the University of Buenos Aires, more than 500,000 demonstrators protested in the capital alone on Tuesday against the strict austerity programme of President Javier Milei's ultra-liberal government. "We are defending the public, open and free university, which is one of the great achievements of our people and which we will not give up," said Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel at the central rally in front of the Casa Rosada, the seat of govern......

By Nicolás Misculin and Candelaria Grimberg BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina libertarian economist Javier Milei took office on Sunday warning in his maiden speech that he had no alternative to a sharp, painful fiscal shock to fix the country's worst economic crisis in decades, with inflation heading towards 200%. "There is no alternative to a shock adjustment," he said on the steps on Congress after taking the presidential baton and sash, with crowds of supporters cheering despite Milei saying the economy would worsen in the short term. "There is no money." Milei, 53, a former TV pundit who s......

By Nicolás Misculin and Candelaria Grimberg BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina's general election vote was being counted on Sunday evening, with early signals suggesting the under-fire Peronist ruling coalition was performing better than expected, while all eyes remained on far-right libertarian radical Javier Milei. Argentines flocked to the polls on Sunday to vote in a tense national election where wild-haired outsider Milei has hogged the limelight amid the country's worst economic crisis in two decades and rising anger with the traditional elite. Around the South American country voters cas......

BAJA CALIFORNIA, Mexico — They are called los desaparecidos — the disappeared. The term gained popularity among extralegal military and police forces in Argentina in the mid-1970s, describing people taken by government-backed armed forces. They vanished without a trace into a world void of human and legal rights. Today there is a different war being waged in Mexico, and a new class of los desaparecidos. More than 79,000 people have disappeared in the country, the vast majority since 2006 when former president Felipe Calderón launched Mexico's war on drugs. Tijuana, a sprawling metropolis of 2.......

MIAMI — On the surface, Roberto Guillermo Bravo epitomizes the successful American immigrant. Born and raised in Argentina, he graduated from the country's naval academy and served as a lieutenant before coming to the United States to work as a military attaché in the Argentine Embassy. After retiring from the military, Bravo moved with his family to Miami, became a naturalized citizen and started his own business. But at age 78, an alleged atrocity in his past has come back to haunt him, for the second time. Bravo, who lives in a $1 million-plus waterfront home with pool and yacht in North Mi......