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When her daughter turned 2, the author started looking into New York City schools. She said the pressure they put on kids made her move.

In Costa Rica, election officials are encouraging those infected with the coronavirus to skip voting in upcoming national elections.

Without a solution that restores the flow of money into and throughout the country, the number of Afghans at risk of hunger is doomed to soar, aid groups say.

The coronavirus’ omicron variant is barreling across South America and pressuring hospitals whose employees are getting infected and taking sick leave, leaving facilities understaffed to cope with COVID-19′s third wave

The coronavirus’ omicron variant is barreling across South America and pressuring hospitals whose employees are getting infected and taking sick leave, leaving facilities understaffed to cope with COVID-19′s third wave.

The fact that Argentina is in talks with the International Monetary Fund for emergency aid to stave off default might not sound surprising -- if agreed, this would be the 22nd IMF loan for South America’s second largest economy in seven decades. What’s unusual is the size of the IMF package being renegotiated, the speed at which it went sour and the complications posed by the pandemic, which hammered an already staggering economy. More familiar is the clash between a left-leaning government that wants more freedom to spend and IMF officials pushing for budget cuts. The stakes are high for Argentina, as its foreign reserves dwindle and a March deadline for a repayment approaches. They’re also high for the IMF, which has sunk a bigger share of its resources into a single country than ever before.

The fact that Argentina is in talks with the International Monetary Fund for emergency aid to stave off default might not sound surprising -- if agreed, this would be the 22nd IMF loan for South America’s second largest economy in seven decades. What’s unusual is the size of the IMF package being renegotiated, the speed at which it went sour and the complications posed by the pandemic, which hammered an already staggering economy. More familiar is the clash between a left-leaning government that wants more freedom to spend and IMF officials pushing for budget cuts. The stakes are high for Argentina, as its foreign reserves dwindle and a March deadline for a repayment approaches. They’re also high for the IMF, which has sunk a bigger share of its resources into a single country than ever before.

According to the Department of Labor, the Consumer Price Index jumped 7% in 2021. But some economists believe inflation will improve in the coming year. Wall Street Journal reporter Harriet Torry joined CBSN to discuss expert's predictions and possible moves by the government.

The United Nations is forecasting lower global economic growth for 2022 and 2023.

The presence of a senior Iranian official at the investiture of Nicaragua’s president has angered Argentina, which alleges the official was involved in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. Rezaei, a former leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, is wanted by Argentina on an Interpol “Red Notice” because of the attack.

Treasury officials warn filing taxes is going be a challenge this year due to the ongoing pandemic and a lack of resources at the Internal Revenue Service. CBS News reporter Sarah Ewall-Wice joins Lilia Luciano on CBSN to discuss.

Ships travelling to Antarctica could bring invasive species to the ocean’s last pristine ecosystem.

Evangelical pastors have become increasingly influential inside Argentine prisons, especially in Santa Fe province

Evangelical pastors have become increasingly influential inside Argentine prisons, especially in Santa Fe province.

Evangelical pastors have become increasingly influential inside Argentine prisons, especially in Santa Fe province

It's been a year since Argentina legalized elective abortions up to 14 weeks of gestation, and there are disparities in the procedure's availability.

Fighting back tears, Barcelona striker Sergio Aguero announced his immediate retirement on Wednesday for health reasons. The 33-year-old Argentina striker underwent heart tests after leaving the field, holding his chest, during Barcelona's match against Alaves in the Spanish league on Oct. 30.

Early Saturday morning, a total solar eclipse will darken skies at the bottom of the world.

A friend tells Local 10 News that Argentina native Delfina Pan died after the stabbing Monday on Miami Beach.

This is only the fourth time the small-billed elaenia has been seen in North America. The first time, the bird was spotted in Douglass Park in Chicago.

A growing movement in Argentina is fighting the persistent myth that there are no Black people in the country and to combat discrimination

It wasn’t until Julia Cohen Ribeiro moved to Argentina that she discovered she was Black. Then 11, she was shocked when people on the street and in school in Buenos Aires insisted that she was Black. “I was never told I was Black growing up,” said Ribeiro, now a 25-year-old film student at the University of Buenos Aires.

Uruguayan referee Andres Cunha and video assistant Esteban Ostojich were suspended Wednesday after failing to give a red card to Argentina defender Nicolas Otamendi during a World Cup qualifying match against Brazil. Otamendi hit Brazil forward Raphinha with his elbow in the 35th minute of Tuesday’s match in San Juan.

Lionel Messi will play for Argentina when they face Brazil on Tuesday in a World Cup qualifier missing Neymar because of left thigh pains. Messi, who has been bothered by a knee injury, will play in San Juan in a match that could earn the team a spot in next year’s World Cup, Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni said Monday.

Brazil is already the first South American team to secure a direct spot in next year's World Cup. Second-place Argentina is nearly there, too. Anyone thinking Tuesday's qualifying match between the teams will not be decisive hasn't considered how much pride will be at stake in the region's superclasico.

Argentine President Alberto Fernández has suffered a severe setback in midterm elections held amid widespread anger over high inflation and rising poverty.

Lucía Giménez still suffers pain in her knees from the years she spent scrubbing floors in the men’s bathroom at the Opus Dei residence in Argentina’s capital for hours without pay. Giménez, now 56, joined the conservative Catholic group in her native Paraguay at the age of 14 with the promise she would get an education. Giménez and 41 other women have filed a complaint against Opus Dei to the Vatican for alleged labor exploitation, as well as abuse of power and of conscience.

Nearly 5 lbs. of gold and thousands of dollars were found on the woman, along with antique coins and jewelry, police said.

The government has reneged on promises to investors four times in U.S. history.

By Joseph GolderA jaguar in Argentina has returned to the wild after the protection of a conservation program in the province of Corrientes. The female was released into the wild in a region where the species was considered extinct for more than 70 years as a result of deforestation and poaching. She appears to be following estuaries that meander throughout the area, where seven other freed jaguars are living. With her there are already seven jaguars living free in Iberá. Jaguars are listed as “near threatened” on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.

The new metrics show that 53,105 COVID patients have died in Florida since the start of the outbreak, a total that sat at 51,892 a day earlier.

Some Latin American countries are loosening or scrapping their abortion laws, even as access to abortion shrinks in the U.S. It's a dramatic flip of circumstances.

New adaptation of Federico Garc�a Lorca play resonates with the text’s bursts of lyricism but embraces tedium all too well.

A court ruling in Mexico is latest victory for abortion rights advocates in Latin America. But legal abortion still remains unavailable for most women.

According to the indictment, Cortes and Weisson founded Biscayne Capital, a financial services company, in 2005. The defendants and others also conspired to fraudulently induce financial institutions to extend short-term credit to help further the scheme. Haberer then generated fake letters of authorization to repay the banks out of Biscayne Capital clients’ accounts without those clients’ authorization. By September 2018, the alleged scheme collapsed, and Biscayne Capital went into liquidation, causing more than $155 million in losses to Biscayne Capital clients. Weisson had an initial court appearance yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Chris M. McAliley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Leader Brazil and second-place Argentina will return to action in World Cup qualifiers on Thursday as fallout from the chaos of their suspended game on Sunday continues. Just minutes into their match on Sunday, a Brazilian health official entered the pitch to remove four Argentina players he considered should be in quarantine due to COVID-19 protocols. FIFA has opened an investigation, and soccer bodies of both countries have questions to answer.

Disciplinary proceedings were opened by FIFA against Argentina and Brazil on Tuesday over the chaos that led to their World Cup qualifier being suspended after Brazilian health officials stormed the field to question the quarantine status of players. FIFA cited ongoing legal procedures as the reason it could not provide specifics on the alleged rule breaches or comment on whether it could also have been partly culpable, along with South American confederation CONMEBOL, for the saga that led to the game being halted after seven minutes on Sunday. FIFA did not specify which regulations the football federations from Argentina and Brazil were being investigated for breaching.

The pitch intruders claimed to have very good reason to be confronting players only seven minutes into Brazil’s World Cup qualifier against Argentina.

Brazil’s federal police is investigating four Argentina footballers for allegedly providing false travel information upon arrival for a World Cup qualifying match.

FIFA will have to determine what happens next with the qualifier.

Brazil’s World Cup qualifier against Argentina has been suspended amid chaotic scenes after local health officials walked onto the pitch in a bid to remove three players who didn’t comply with coronavirus protocols.

Argentina walked off the field Sunday after only seven minutes of its World Cup qualifier against host Brazil after health officials came onto the pitch following coronavirus concerns about three Argentina players. Argentina tweeted that the game, which was at 0-0, would not resume. Antonio Barra Torres, the president of Brazil's health agency, said four Argentina players will be fined and deported for allegedly not following the country's COVID-19 protocols.

Even a retractable roof at the U.S. Open was no match for the heavy rain and wind the remnants of Hurricane Ida carried to Flushing Meadows.

A U.N.-appointed panel of experts says that Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past the most ambitious threshold set in the Paris accord.

The Paraná River, one of the main commercial waterways in South America, has reached its lowest level in nearly 80 years due to a prolonged drought in Brazil that scientists attribute to climate change.

The Paraná River, one of the main commercial waterways in South America, has reached its lowest level in nearly 80 years due to a prolonged drought in Brazil that scientists attribute to climate change. The National Water Institute of Argentina has defined the low water level of the Paraná River, which goes through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, as “the worst since 1944.”

Luis Scola expected to be in the game competing until the buzzer sounded.

Luka Doncic made a spectacular Olympic debut with 48 points, tied for the second-highest total in men’s basketball history, to lead Slovenia to a 118-100 victory over Argentina.

Under the new system, residents can select 'x' as their gender on passports and national ID cards.

Major international basketball is back in the Tokyo area for the first time since a memorable world championship in 2006.

Russia has presented a prototype of a new fighter jet that features stealth capabilities and other advanced characteristics

There is no easy way from Argentina to Japan. Associated Press Photographer Natacha Pisarenko's trip was more complicated than most. From the full-body protective suits worn by fellow travelers in Buenos Aires, to the long wait at Haneda Airport in Tokyo for results from COVID-19 testing, Pisarenko's roughly 35-hour journey to the 2020 Summer Games was longer than most but otherwise typical for the thousands of athletes, officials and media descending on Japan's capital this week.

Argentina has surpassed more than 100,000 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic started.

Argentina has reported more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, a heavy blow to a country that intermittently imposed some of the most severe lockdowns in the world, only to see erratic compliance by many people

Argentina has reported more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, a heavy blow to a country that intermittently imposed some of the most severe lockdowns in the world, only to see erratic compliance by many people.

A self-proclaimed prophet has been accused of fraud after claiming that England would win the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship (EURO 2020) finals against Italy. (@ProphetBaduKobi/Zenger)“Now for the match which will happen tonight between Brazil and Argentina, Brazil will win. Argentina will not win, Messi is part of Argentina, he is a great footballer but the night is not for them, the night is for Brazil and Brazil will win this cup. Unfortunately for Kobi, Argentina beat Brazil 1–0 and won the cup. Sprong also said that in 2020, the self-proclaimed prophet predicted Trump would win the 2020 U.S. presidential election and that Mahama would win the 2020 Ghana elections.

There were 179 known COVID-19 cases related to the Copa America, Brazil’s health ministry said on Monday, up 13 from its previous update 17 days ago. The figure also did not contemplate possible contagion among a few thousand guests who watched Lionel Messi's Argentina beat Brazil 1-0 on Saturday in the final at Maracana Stadium. The final was the only match in the tournament to have spectators in the stands.

Lionel Messi’s Argentina beat Brazil 1-0 in the Copa America final to secure the national team’s first title in 28 years and the superstar's first major international trophy.

Brazil striker Gabriel Jesus is out of the Copa America final against Argentina because of a red card he received during his team's 1-0 quarterfinal win over Chile. The striker didn't play on Monday in Brazil's 1-0 semifinal victory against Peru, being replaced by winger Everton. Jesus was sent off shortly before the second half of Brazil's victory against Chile after he hit Eugenio Mena with a flying kick.

Around the world, the way people eat could change.

Seven-year-old Stella Cattarossi, the daughter of a Miami firefighter, was at Champlain Towers South with her mother, grandparents, and aunt when the collapse of the northeastern side of the 12-story building happened last week in Surfside.

Uruguay beat Paraguay 1-0 on Monday to finish second in Group A and move into a Copa America quarterfinal against Colombia. The result also left Chile to face defending champion and host Brazil in the next stage. Edinson Cavani scored from the penalty spot in the 21st minute for the only goal of the match at the Nilton Santos Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

“She was so worried before the big trip, but I told her that it would be a great experience and an opportunity to achieve everything she wanted,” a friend said. “Right now, I wish I hadn’t.”

Sometimes relegated in the popular imagination to the realm of fridge research for kooks and cranks, UFO analysts and investigators hope that acknowledgment and serious treatment by the U.S. defense establishment could destigmatize their work.

La familia viaja en su camioneta que compró para la ocasión. Claudio dejó su trabajo en el restaurante y los niños terminaron el grado de la escuela en el que se encontraban; vendieron todos sus muebles, compraron la caravana con la que viajarían y la arreglaron. “Estábamos en Playa Azul en México y nos paramos en una plaza al lado del mar. Una de las cosas más importantes que se llevaron fue un panel solar que transforma la energía. (Editado por Melanie Slone y LuzMarina Rojas-Carhuas)The post De la Patagonia a México: la familia que dejó todo para viajar en una caravana appeared first on Zenger News.

The empty, dark dance floor at the Viruta Tango Club is a symbol of the pandemic-induced crisis facing dancers and musicians of an art form known for close physical contact and exchanging partners.

TaskUs debuted on the Nasdaq on Friday and the customer support outsourcing company was valued at $2.8 billion after its IPO pop.

Brazil’s international players have been reluctant to play in the Copa America.

Argentina's President Alberto Fernández might want to get on a boat and hide. The left-leaning Argentine leader has been ridiculed across Latin America and beyond for trying to emphasize his country's European roots during a meeting this week with Spain's prime minister by saying: “The Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle, but we Argentines came from boats, and they were boats that came from Europe.” It's perhaps the most racially charged version of an oft-quoted saying attributed at varying times to writers including Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes of Mexico and Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar of Argentina — though it may predate all of them — and none of those included any reference to “Indians” or “the jungle.”

The last stop for USA Basketball before the Tokyo Olympics will be Las Vegas.

Brazil moved further ahead in South American World Cup qualifying on Tuesday with a 2-0 win at Paraguay, its sixth in six matches on the road to Qatar. The Brazilians are now six points clear of second place Argentina, which drew 2-2 at Colombia after squandering a two-goal advantage. Neymar and Lucas Paquetá scored Brazil's goals, marking the team's first win at Paraguay in World Cup qualifiers in 35 years.

The head of the U_N_ nuclear watchdog says Iran has failed to answer questions about the discovery of uranium particles at former undeclared sites in the country He is calling on Tehran to provide information “without further delay.”.

Amid a possible player revolt, Brazil beat Ecuador 2-0 on Friday to win its fifth consecutive match in South American World Cup qualifying. Brazil now leads the round-robin tournament with 15 points, four ahead of second-place Argentina. It appears all but certain that Brazil will qualify for one of the four direct South American spots for Qatar 2022.

Hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels have been swarming the coast of Argentina and pillaging the waters of marine life vital to the South American country’s economy and the area’s fragile ecosystem, a new investigation has revealed. New data released on Wednesday by Oceana, a non-profit that works on ocean conservation, shows that between 2018 and April this year, a Chinese armada of some 400 vessels clocked 69 per cent of 900,000 hours of fishing activity off Argentina. Taiwanese, South Korean a

The woman was the mother of two young children who lived not far from where the incident occurred. She was running with her dog early Saturday.

Brazil will host Copa America for the second consecutive time after Colombia and Argentina were dropped as organizers of the tournament.

Mexico’s top diplomat says shipments of a long-delayed lot of AstraZeneca vaccines will finally be sent to Argentina.

La huelga de la Sociedad Rural Argentina, Confederaciones Rurales Argentinas, Coninagro y Federación Agraria Argentina comenzará el jueves y consistirá en la suspensión de la venta de hacienda, entre otras medidas.

El presidente argentino Alberto Fernández ratificó a su país como una de las dos sedes de la Copa América que debe inaugurarse en menos de un mes, aunque descartó la presencia de público debido a la difícil situación sanitaria generada por la pandemia de coronavirus.

COVID-19 deaths have hit new peaks in Argentina, but the intensive care unit at the San Andres clinic in the capital is oddly silent.

The U.S. trade deficit surged to a record $74.4 billion in March as an improving U.S. economy boosted purchases of imported foreign goods.

La argentina Carmela Corleto, de 71 años, guardó una estricta cuarentena durante más de un año para no contagiarse de COVID-19.

Tras un fallo judicial reabren varias escuelas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires pese a un decreto del presidente Alberto Fernández que había suspendido las clases presenciales en la capital y los suburbios que la rodean hasta el 30 de abril por la segunda ola de coronavirus en Argentina.

French President Emmanuel Macron says he foresees at least some tourists returning to Paris this summer if they have gotten vaccinated or have proof of testing negative for the coronavirus.

The U.S. trade deficit grew to a record $71.1 billion in February as a decline in exports more than offset a slight dip in imports, with severe weather taking much of the blame from analysts who were expecting a slightly lower deficit.

PortMiami is setting a new record Tuesday as the largest container ship to ever call at a Florida port is soon arriving.

The Navajo Nation on Saturday reported 18 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and four more deaths.

(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s elections agency has withdrawn ballot registration for a ruling-party state candidate who was nominated despite accusations of rape against him. The decision drew the wrath Friday of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has defended candidate Félix Salgado and criticized women's groups who objected to his candidacy. “This is an attack on democracy,” Lopez Obrador said, saying that “high powered, mafia interests” wanted Salgado disqualified as candidate for the governorship of southern Guerrero state. Salgado was chosen as candidate by a poll of Morena party members despite nationwide protests over the fact two women accused him of rape. AdFormer Guerrero state prosecutor Xavier Olea told The Associated Press that the current governor of Guerrero, Hector Astudillo, ordered him in 2017 not to investigate one of the rape accusations against Salgado, though Astudillo has denied that.

Hernández, 26, remembers fondly how hundreds of green-clad women celebrated in Argentina late last year after winning their fight to legalize abortion. AdThe OAS also reported the situation of healthcare for pregnant women, was likely boosting their migration to neighboring countries. Mónica Tamarones started the independent station, which has a YouTube channel, an Instagram page, and a community on Whatsapp. “This is another silent pandemic.”More facts about femicides in Latin AmericaAbout 4,555 women were victims in 15 Latin American countries and four Caribbean countries in 2019. In Latin America, the highest rates of femicide were in Honduras, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, and Bolivia.

That means Buenos Aires' famed steakhouses are reigniting their fires, while counterparts in Sao Paulo extinguish theirs. The 48,000-seat NeoQuimica arena on the east side of Sao Paulo is being used as a vaccination post. Izidoro Silveira, 34, got a job waiting tables at a pizzeria in downtown Sao Paulo two months ago after almost a full year unemployed. But the overwhelming gloom seen in Sao Paulo seems to be far from Buenos Aires. There’s still a long way to go, but little by little we’re getting where we wanted.”___ Rey reported from Buenos Aires.

That means Buenos Aires' famed steakhouses are reigniting their fires, while counterparts in Sao Paulo extinguish theirs. The 48,000-seater NeoQuimica arena on the east side of Sao Paulo is being used as a vaccination post. Izidoro Silveira, 34, got a job waiting tables at a pizzeria in downtown Sao Paulo two months ago, after almost a full year unemployed. But the overwhelming gloom seen in Sao Paulo seems to be far from Buenos Aires. There’s still a long way to go, but little by little we’re getting where we wanted.”___ Rey reported from Buenos Aires.

The United States shut out Canada in the round-robin tournament opener and then downed Brazil 2-0 on Sunday. Rapinoe scored in the 16th minute with a well-timed strike on a through ball from Rose Lavelle for the early lead. It was Lloyd's 124th international goal and it came in her 299th appearance with the national team. It was her 108th international goal, moving her into sole possession of fifth place on the team's career list. The United States improved to 4-0 against Argentina.

(Foto AP/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that his country is doing better than the United States in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, even though Mexico’s per capita death rate is probably higher and the country has vaccinated less than 1% of its population. The United States death toll is around 500,000, but its population is 2.6 times larger. Moreover, estimates of excess deaths in Mexico since the start of the pandemic suggest the COVID-19 toll is now well above 220,000. Mexico has administered about 1.7 million vaccine doses, while the U.S. has given 64 million shots. “The idea is to propose at the G20 the need to declare COVID-19 vaccines as ‘global goods,’ so that they cede their intellectual property rights and all countries can freely produce them,” Fernández said.

Argentine President Alberto Fernndez has confirmed on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, that Menem, who had been ailing in recent weeks has died. ( AP Photo/Alejandro Querol, File)BUENOS AIRES – Carlos Menem, a former Argentine president who delivered short-lived economic stability and forged close ties with the United States in the 1990s even as he navigated scandal and enjoyed an often flamboyant lifestyle, has died. Argentine President Alberto Fernández confirmed the death of the 90-year-old former leader, who had been ailing in recent weeks. Menem, who served two terms as president between 1989 and 1999, transformed the country -- but in the opposite direction. As president, Menem prevailed in disputes with the Argentine military, whose 1976 coup had led to the extrajudicial killings and disappearances of tens of thousands of people.

The fourth edition of the global Circus Biennale is demonstrating how the performing arts have a way of flourishing in between the cracks, celebrating the death-defying and spine stretching arts that go behind the storied spectacle. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)MARSEILLE – It’s been a tough year for the performing arts in most countries, with virus lockdowns canceling shows and shuttering venues. But the world's top circus festival has found a way to flourish between the cracks in the rules — even without the huge crowds that would normally have attended. This year it had up to 2,000 visitors, all professionals who work in the circus or are looking to buy shows. No one knows when the performing arts will be allowed to begin again.

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A nurse shows to the press a vial of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 during a vaccination campaign inside River Plate stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)MANAGUA – Nicaragua’s government said Wednesday that it had approved Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. “Nicaragua is advancing in its negotiations with Russia to supply” the vaccine, said the government outlet El 19 Digital. It was the first vaccine approved in Nicaragua, which still awaits its first doses. Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela are among other left-leaning governments in the hemisphere that have approved the vaccine.

En la primera jornada, se aplicaron 400 dosis en las 16 postas instaladas en la cancha de básquetbol que funciona debajo de una de las tribunas del estadio “Monumental”. La cifra está muy por debajo de los cinco millones de dosis que el propio presidente Alberto Fernández había programado para el primer mes de 2021. “No me vacunan porque me dicen que vivo en provincia y que tengo que ir a provincia. La alcaldía de Buenos Aires fija como requisitos para vacunarse contar con matrícula nacional vigente y domicilio en la ciudad. En tanto, recién en marzo llegarían los primeros cargamentos de la vacuna de AstraZeneca, la cual está en fase de producción local en alianza con México.

The poster, she said, celebrated the recent liberalization of the abortion law in Argentina and expressed hope Poland would be next. Mass nationwide protests have recurred repeatedly since then, growing into the largest protest movement in post-communist Poland. The court's judges argued that allowing abortion when there are congenital defects is unconstitutional because the Polish Constitution protects human life. Suchanow and Marta Lempart, the leaders of the Women’s Strike group that has spearheaded street protests against the law, are now looking for inspiration to Argentina. AdIrene Donadio, a leading strategist with International Planned Parenthood Federation, a group promoting reproductive health and choice, said her organization is appalled that such a restrictive law could be imposed in a European Union member state.

The abortion law goes into force Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)BUENOS AIRES – Argentina’s groundbreaking abortion law went into force Sunday under the watchful eyes of women’s groups and government officials, who hope to ensure its full implementation despite opposition from some conservative and church groups. Supporters of the law say they expect lawsuits from anti-abortion groups in Argentina’s conservative provinces and some private health clinics might refuse to carry out the procedure. The law’s supporters expect backlash in Argentina’s conservative provinces. Gómez Alcorta said criminal charges currently pending against more than 1,500 women and doctors who performed abortions should be lifted.