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“Not one less”: feminists blame Milei for the lack of policies to protect women

Feminist organizations in Argentina carried out this Monday the annual “Not a less” march, the first under the Government of Javier Milei, who is responsible for promoting hatred towards women and “dissidence” through discourses and adjustment policies.

“The arrival of Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel (vice president), their economic, political, social, material and symbolic measures constitute an attack on the entire Argentine people and in particular they express their denial of gender violence, hatred of women and sexogeneric disssidents,” said the organization Women of Latin American Matria (Mumalá), in a statement.

The marches were held in several cities of the country, with an epicenter in Buenos Aires, where thousands of people met in front of the National Congress to demand the declaration of a “national emergency” in terms of sexist violence and show their repudiation of Milei’s reforms.

“Because fundamental public policies were dismantled to prevent violence, while femicides do not stop growing. Approving the ‘base law’ deprives us of the right to retire and transforms us into a colony for transnational corporations. Because with hatred and hunger there is no freedom and because hunger is violence ‘Not One Less’,” the feminist collective remarked in a document.

So far this year, Argentina has registered 127 victims of sexist violence, one every 35 hours, of which 114 were femicides, three lesbicides, one trans/travesticide and nine linked femicides of adult men and children, according to the femicide observatory ‘Adriana Marisel Zambrano’, which runs the NGO La Casa del Encuentro.

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The numbers of women’s deaths are stable in a decade, since the National Registry of Femicides of the Supreme Court of Justice, which has been recording data since 2014, gave the figures of a total of 2,446 direct victims of femicide in the country with an average of almost 245 murders per year.

“The statistics do not go down with an absent State that shows no interest in developing public policies for the approach, assistance and prevention of gender violence and with an Undersecretariat for Protection against Gender Violence that seems to have no voice,” the NGO explained.

One of Milei’s first measures, after assuming as president on December 10, was the dissolution of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity, which now became an undersecretary under the orbit of the Ministry of Justice without a declared action plan or budget.

The first “Not one less” was on June 3, 2015, after the case of Chiara Páez, a 14-year-old pregnant woman, who was beaten to death by her 17-year-old boyfriend because she refused to have an abortion.

After nine years, for the organizations the calls are still in force because the claims continue to be unfulfilled.

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Marco Rubio warns Venezuela against military action against Guyana

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Venezuela on Thursday that a military attack on Guyana would be “a big mistake” and “a very bad day for them,” expressing his support for Georgetown in its territorial dispute with Caracas.

“It would be a very bad day for the Venezuelan regime if they attacked Guyana or ExxonMobil. It would be a very bad day, a very bad week for them, and it would not end well,” Rubio emphasized during a press conference in Georgetown alongside Guyanese President Irfaan Ali.

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Ecuador oil spill worsens as containment dam collapses

The collapse of a containment dam holding back part of the 25,000+ barrels of oil spilled from a pipeline rupture nearly two weeks ago has worsened the environmental crisis in northwestern Ecuador, contaminating rivers and Pacific beaches.

The Ecuadorian government attributed the March 13 pipeline rupture—which led to the spill of 25,116 barrels of crude—to an act of sabotage. The spill affected three rivers and disrupted water supplies for several communities, according to authorities.

On Tuesday, due to heavy rains that have been falling since January, a containment dam on the Caple River collapsed. The Caple connects to other waterways in Esmeraldas Province, a coastal region bordering Colombia, state-owned Petroecuador said in a statement on Wednesday.

Seven containment barriers were installed in the Viche River, where crews worked to remove oil-contaminated debris. Additional absorbent materials were deployed in Caple, Viche, and Esmeraldas Rivers, which flow into the Pacific Ocean.

Authorities are also working to protect a wildlife refuge home to more than 250 species, including otters, howler monkeys, armadillos, frigatebirds, and pelicans.

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“This has been a total disaster,” said Ronald Ruiz, a leader in the Cube community, where the dam was located. He explained that the harsh winter rains caused river levels to rise, bringing debris that broke the containment barriersthat were holding the accumulated oil for extraction.

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Federal court blocks Trump’s use of Enemy Alien Act for deportations

A federal appeals court upheld the block on former President Donald Trump’s use of the Enemy Alien Act on Wednesday, preventing him from using the law to expedite deportations of alleged members of the transnational criminal group Tren de Aragua.

With a 2-1 ruling, a panel from the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed previous decisions by two lower court judges, maintaining the legal standoff between the White House and the judiciary.

On March 14, Trump invoked the 1798 Enemy Alien Act, a law traditionally used during wartime, to deport hundreds of Venezuelans whom he accused of belonging to Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization that originated in Venezuelan prisons.

The centuries-old law grants the president the power to detain, restrict, and expel foreign nationals from a country engaged in a “declared war” or an “invasion or predatory incursion” against the United States, following a public proclamation.