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Félix Díaz (cacique)
Félix Díaz (born 28 December 1959) is an Argentine activist on behalf of the civil rights of the Qom people in Argentina. He is the ''qarashé'' of the Potae Napocna Navogoh, also known as Colonia La Primavera in the province of Formosa.Cardin, LorenaEn diálogo con el líder qom Félix DíazVoces en el Fénix. Accessed 19 February 2015. The Spanish newspaper ''El País'' named him among the 100 outstanding Iberoamerican people of 2011. Since July 2016 he has been president of the Consultative and Participative Council of Indigenous People. Biography Earlier life Félix Díaz grew up in the Qom community of Potae Napoqna Navogoh (Colonia la Primavera). He joined the army, where he learned to read and write. He was on duty in Rosario during the 1978 World Cup, and took part in military exercises in the confrontation with Chile in the Beagle conflict of 1979. He decided not to remain in the army on learning of the abuses it was committing against Argentine civilians. He was a M ...
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Félix Díaz En El Acampe Qom
Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain * St. Felix, Prince Edward Island, a rural community in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. * Felix, Ontario, an unincorporated place and railway point in Northeastern Ontario, Canada * St. Felix, South Tyrol, a village in South Tyrol, in northern Italy. * Felix, California, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County Music * Felix (band), a British band * Felix (musician), British DJ * Félix Award, a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc Business * Felix (pet food), a brand of cat food sold in most European countries * AB Felix, a Swedish food company * Felix Bus Services of Derbyshire, England * Felix Airways, an airline based in Yemen Science and technology * Apache Felix, an open source OSGi framework ...
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Wichí
The Wichí are an indigenous people of South America. They are a large group of tribes ranging about the headwaters of the Bermejo River and the Pilcomayo River, in Argentina and Bolivia. Notes on designation This ethnic group was named by the English settlers and is still widely known as Mataco. The etymology of the term is obscure but in several sources, it is cited that the Wichí find the term derogatory. Among the group exists a folk etymology for this term, which relates it to the Spanish verb ''matar'', to kill. Thus their preferred name, their own word for themselves, is Wichí, pronounced , and their language, ''Wichí Lhamtés'' . There is a pronunciation variant in some areas of Bolivia, , where the self-denomination of the group is Weenhayek wichi, translated by Alvarsson (1988) as "''the different people''" (pl. ''Weenhayey''). Weenhayey informers of Alvarsson state that the old name was Olhamelh (), meaning simply ''us''. The subgroups within Wichí have been ide ...
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Mauricio Macri
Mauricio Macri (; born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previously served as 5th Chief of Government of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2015, and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2005 to 2007. Ideologically, he identifies himself as a liberal and conservative on the Argentine centre-right. Born in Tandil, Argentina, Macri trained as a civil engineer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and attended Columbia University for business school. After embarking on a business career, he was kidnapped in 1991. The experience prompted him to enter politics, after being released by his captors. He served as president of football club Boca Juniors from 1994 to 2007, reestablishing its profitability which raised his public profile. In 2003 he launched the Commitment ...
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Intratables
Intratables is an Argentine TV program. It is aired at América TV channel since 2013. Premise The program started as an Archive television program, focused on the Argentine show business. It was hosted by Santiago del Moro, who was already working in '' Infama''. As a summer season program, it had a light approach to all topics at that point. They sought a personal style to endure the upcoming start of the 2013 season of '' Showmatch'', and focused instead in politics. It became a talk show, using archived footage only to introduce the topics of discussion. Del Moro, however, rejected the usual format of political TV programs, and kept a style similar to video clips: each person in the studios talk for a limited time and someone else talks then, and topics are halted abruptly to introduce new ones. The program includes people from all sides of the political spectrum, and Moro tries to grant everyone equal speaking time. Awards * 2015 Martín Fierro Awards ** Best panelist (Jonat ...
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Gustavo Cordera
Gustavo Edgardo Cordera (born September 15, 1961 in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine rock musician, best known as the ex frontman of the band Bersuit Vergarabat. Biography Cordera's musical career began in 1988, when he was studying communications at the Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora and running his own auto dealership, Cordera Bros. In the spring of that year, he visited Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval and was inspired to become a musician. Returning to Avellaneda, he sold his dealership, abandoned his studies, and shaved his head, an act which earned him the sobriquet Pelado (in English "Bald"). At ''la Casa de las Artes de la Vieja Avellaneda'', a meeting place for musicians and artists, Cordera met keyboardist Juan Subirá and bassist Pepe Céspedes, and together they produced the songs "Masturbación en masa" ("Masturbation en masse") and "Hociquito de Ratón" ("Little Rat-Snout"). A year later, along with drummer Carlos Enrique Martín and guitarist C ...
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:Nora Cortiñas
Nora Morales de Cortiñas (born March 22, 1930 in Buenos Aires), better known as Nora (or "Norita") Cortiñas, is a social psychologist, activist and defender of Argentine human rights. She is a co-founder of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and later of "Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora". Career Cortiñas is a social psychologist and professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. Since 1998, she has held the chair of "Economic Power and Human Rights". Her son, Gustavo Cortiñas, a member of the Justicialist Party and the Montoneros organization in Villa 31 neighborhood of Buenos Aires. was arrested and disappeared in Castelar, Buenos Aires Province, on April 15, 1977, when he was working in the Argentine Ministry of Economy after having previously passed through National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina and the National Securities Commission, by members of the Armed Forces. Since 1977, Cortiñas has been part of the Madres de P ...
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born 26 November 1931) is an Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1976–1983), during which he was detained, tortured, and held without trial for 14 months. He also received, among other distinctions, the Pacem in Terris Award. Early life Pérez Esquivel was born in Buenos Aires on 26 November 1931 to a Spanish fisherman from Poio, Galicia, who emigrated to Argentina. His mother died when he was three, and despite his poverty, he attended the Manuel Belgrano School of Fine Arts and the National University of La Plata, where he was trained as a painter and sculptor. He was appointed professor of architecture and worked with a variety of sculptural media, and for 25 years taught in all levels from primary to university. Pérez Esquivel began working with popularly based Latin American Christian pacifist ...
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Argentine Federal Police
The Argentine Federal Police ( es, Policía Federal Argentina or PFA) is the national civil police force of the Argentine federal government. The PFA has detachments throughout the country. Until January 1, 2017, it also acted as the local law enforcement agency in the capital, Buenos Aires. History The history of this police force can be traced to 1580, when the founder of Buenos Aires, Captain Juan de Garay, established a local militia for defense against potential Native American raids. The ''Policía de Buenos Aires'' (Buenos Aires Police) operated for the first three hundred years up to 1880, when the Federalization of Buenos Aires resulted in the creation of the ''Policía de la Capital'' (Police of the Capital). Incidents of social unrest in subsequent years helped prompt the Fraga Law in 1904, which provided for the inclusion of neighborhood representatives as commissioners in their respective precincts. The failed Argentine Revolution of 1905, Revolution of 1905, by ...
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Molotov Cocktail
A Molotov cocktail (among several other names – ''see other names'') is a hand thrown incendiary weapon constructed from a frangible container filled with flammable substances equipped with a fuse (typically a glass bottle filled with flammable liquids sealed with a cloth wick). In use, the fuse attached to the container is lit and the weapon is thrown, shattering on impact. This ignites the flammable substances contained in the bottle and spreads flames as the fuel burns. Due to their relative ease of production, Molotov cocktails are typically improvised weapons. Their improvised usage spans from criminals, rioters, football hooligans, urban guerrillas, terrorists, irregular soldiers, freedom fighters, and even regular soldiers, in the latter case often due to a shortage of equivalent military-issued weapons. Despite its improvised and rebellious nature, many modern militaries exercise the use of Molotov cocktails. However, Molotov cocktails are not always improvised ...
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The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ...
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world. The stated mission of the organization is to campaign for "a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments." The organization has played a notable role on human rights issues due to its frequent citation in media and by world leaders. AI was founded in London in 1961 by the lawyer Peter Benenson. Its original focus was prisoners of conscience, with its remit widening in the 1970s, under the leadership of Seán MacBride and Martin Ennals to include miscarriages of justice and torture. In 1977, it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In the 1980s, its secretary general was Thomas Hammarberg, succeeded ...
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Qopiwini
Qopiwini Lafwetes (Qo.wi.pi.ni. respecting the original spelling) is a group that includes aboriginal cultural settlements in the Province of Formosa in Argentina. It encompasses peoples from the Qom, Pilagá, Wichi and Nivaclé ethnic groups of Argentina. It was formed at the beginning of 2015. In February 2015, they set up a protest camp at the intersection of Avenues 9 of Julio and Avenue of May to draw attention to the repressive actions against the aborigines by the government of Formosa, and to collect citizens' signatures supporting their cause. Included in the camp were some forty representatives of the forty-six communities of the Qom, Pilagá, Wichi and Nivaclé villages. The leader of the group is Félix Díaz, spokesperson (qarashé) of the Qom Potae Napocna Navogoh community. However, the organization debates the steps to be followed in an assembly. Antecedents, meetings and assemblies In 2010, local aboriginal peoples formed a picket on National Route 86 in pr ...
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