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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.
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.
International
Trump to build $200M ballroom at the White House by 2028
The U.S. government under President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that it will begin construction in September on a new 8,000-square-meter ballroom at the White House.
The announcement was made by Karoline Leavitt, the administration’s press secretary, during a briefing in which she explained that the expansion responds to the need for a larger venue to host “major events.”
“Other presidents have long wished for a space capable of accommodating large gatherings within the White House complex… President Trump has committed to solving this issue,” Leavitt told reporters.
The project is estimated to cost $200 million, fully funded through donations from Trump himself and other “patriots,” according to a government statement. Construction is scheduled to begin in September and is expected to be completed before Trump’s term ends in 2028.
The Clark Construction Group, a Virginia-based company known for projects such as the Capital One Arena and L’Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C., has been selected to lead the project.
The new ballroom will be built on the East Wing of the White House, expanding the iconic residence with a space designed for state dinners, official ceremonies, and large-scale events.
International
Three salvadorans in Florida sentenced in $146 million construction tax fraud scheme
Three Salvadoran residents living in Orlando, Florida, were sentenced for conspiracy to commit tax fraud and wire fraud involving a scheme exceeding $146 million in the construction industry, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida. The sentence was handed down by federal judge Timothy J. Corrigan on Tuesday, July 29.
Eduardo Aníbal Escobar (45) was sentenced to 4 years and 9 months in prison, Carlos Alberto Rodríguez (36) to 3 years and 4 months, and Adelmy Tejada (57) to 18 months in prison, followed by 6 months of house arrest. All three pled guilty on April 3, 2025.
In addition to the prison terms, the court ordered restitution payments totaling $36,957,616 to the IRS for unpaid payroll taxes, and $397,895 to two insurers for workers’ compensation claims related to the scheme.
Escobar and Rodríguez are permanent legal residents originally from El Salvador, while Tejada is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Salvadoran origin.
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Kremlin hails preparedness after Kamchatka quakes leave no casualties
The Kremlin expressed relief that the earthquakes that struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula today —the first being the strongest since 1952— resulted in no casualties, and emphasized that the region is well prepared to face such natural disasters.
“Thank God, there were no victims,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov during his daily press briefing.
The presidential representative stated that “all alert systems were activated in time, and evacuations were organized for residents in areas requiring it in response to tsunami threats.”
“Overall, the seismic resilience of the buildings proved effective (…) Therefore, we can say that the technological preparedness demonstrated a high level,” Peskov added.
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