Argentina

Sei whales reappear in Argentine waters after nearly 100 years

May 16, 2024 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

News from Argentina shows that the benefits of the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling are still compounding, with sei whales returning to the South American nation’s coastal waters for the first time in nearly a decade. Overhunting during the 1920s and 1930s led these massive blue-grey giants to abandon their ancestral waters in Argentina.

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In first, an Argentine court convicts ex-officers of crimes against trans women during dictatorship

March 26, 2024 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

Judges overseeing a high-profile human rights trial in Argentina have convicted 11 former officials of crimes against humanity, in the South American nation’s first case to focus on the former military dictatorship’s overlooked practice of committing sexual violence against transgender women.

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Giant anteaters lead biodiversity resurgence in Argentina’s Iberá

February 23, 2022 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

In 2007, the first pair of giant anteaters was reintroduced Iberá reserve, a region from which it had gone extinct decades earlier. Today, more than 200 anteaters live free in the reserve.

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Argentina’s new trans employment law further protects LGBTQ rights

August 26, 2021 | By Peter Schulte | Change Milestones

In June, the country passed a new law establishing a one percent quota for transgender people employed in the public sector, which means that one percent of all public sector jobs should be held by trans people.

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Argentina makes abortion legal in landmark vote

December 30, 2020 | By Peter Schulte | Change Milestones

Argentina becomes the first large Latin American country to ditch stringent antiabortion regulations in a vote expected to boost feminist movements across the predominantly Catholic region.

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12 nations sign the UNASUR Constitutive Treaty

May 23, 2008 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

The UNASUR Constitutive Treaty officially established the Union of South American Nations, an intergovernmental continental union of twelve South American nations.

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Tango becomes a global sensation

April 26, 1910 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

Initially, it was just one of the many dances, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and street barrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums.

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The Treaty of Montevideo is ratified, granting independence for Uruguay

October 4, 1828 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

The Preliminary Peace Convention accorded independence to Uruguay in respect to Brazil and Argentina. Uruguay’s independence would be definitively sealed on 4 October of the same year when, in Montevideo, the signing nations ratified the treaty.

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The Congress of Tucumán declares Argentina’s independence

July 9, 1816 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

The Congress was inaugurated in the city of TucumÃ¡n, with 33 deputies. The voting ended on July 9 with a declaration of independence.

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes first European to travel to Iguazú Falls

August 14, 1541 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

The first European to discover the Falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541, after whom one of the falls on the Argentine side is named.

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