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Conscription in Argentina, also known as "colimba", was the compulsory military service that men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one had to fulfill in Argentina from 1901 to 1994. History [ edit ]
Argentina abolished capital punishment for ordinary crimes in 1984 and abolished it for all crimes in 2008, supported by the president at the time, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Argentina voted in favor of the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty eight times, in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.
"Breaking the Silence: The Maria Soledad Case" looks at the murder of a 17-year-old girl in 1990, which sparked national outrage in Argentina.
55-year-old former employee Eugenio Villela opened fire on his past co-workers, killing two people and wounding four others before fleeing the scene. Triple crime in General Rodríguez: August 13, 2008 General Rodríguez: 3 Torture and deaths of Three pharmaceutical businessmen 2013 Argentine police revolts: December 3–13, 2013 Argentina 18
ESMA, a well-known clandestine detention center. Memorial at the former detention center of Quinta de Mendez []. The clandestine detention, torture and extermination centers, also called (in Spanish: centros clandestinos de detención, tortura y exterminio, CCDTyE —or CCDyE or CCD—, by their acronym), were secret facilities (ie, black sites) used by the Armed, Security and Police Forces of ...
Argentina military spending is one of the lowest of South America [7] [8] and as of 2010, its 0.9% of GDP only exceeds Suriname [9] Within the defence budget itself funding for training and even basic maintenance was significantly cut, a factor contributing to the accidental loss of the Argentine submarine San Juan in 2017. The result has been ...
The turboprop plane took part in the so-called "death flights" that Argentina's bloody 1976-1983 dictatorship employed as one of its tools to get rid of critics. The victims on one flight on Dec ...
Argentina holds 'death flights' trial Archived 2015-09-25 at the Wayback Machine. – video report by Al Jazeera America. November 29, 2012. Final destination: the legacy of Argentina's death flights – in pictures. Photo essay on the Argentinean death flights. April 2017