As of this Thursday (01.14.2021), the elective abortion law will take effect in Argentina until the 14th week of gestation, with the promulgation of the norm approved on December 30th in a historic debate in Congress.
The South American country becomes the largest in Latin America in which abortion is legal, after Cuba, Uruguay and Guyana. In Mexico it is allowed in the State of Oaxaca and in Mexico City.
The center-left president Alberto Fernández, promoter of the project, will promulgate the rule late in the afternoon at a ceremony at the Museo del Bicentenario, in Buenos Aires.
With this law, Argentina retakes the vanguard of social conquests in Latin America. In 2010 it approved equal marriage and in 2012 a gender identity law.
Feminism is key
The norm represents “the understanding on the part of the State of what reproductive autonomy means in the lives of women,” María Teresa Bosio, president of Catholics for the Right to Decide, told AFP. The organization has led for more than a decade the National Campaign for the right to legal, safe and free abortion.
The mobilization of thousands of young people and groups of women from the so-called ‘green tide’ was crucial for the law to be approved in the Senate that had rejected a similar bill in 2018.
The ‘green tide’ was crucial in the approval of the new law
The law crossed the political forces and society in a transversal way, where an anti-abortion movement backed by the Evangelist and Catholic churches in the native country of Pope Francis also gained strength.
Until now, abortion in Argentina was only allowed in the event of rape or danger to the life of the woman, according to a 1921 law.
The government estimates that since 1983 more than 3,000 women have died in the 370,000 to 520,000 abortions performed each year in a country with 45 million inhabitants.
“Our work generated a strong incidence in the institutions to build a legitimacy on abortion with the support of the youth that gave us a massiveness that at the beginning of the movement we did not have,” Bosio said by way of balance.
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The enormous legacy of Quino, Mafalda’s father
Joaquín Salvador Lavado, Quino
Born in 1932 into an Andalusian family who arrived in Argentina, Quino discovered at an early age that his thing was drawing. With his heart divided between Argentina and Spain, this serious man is the most important graphic creator in the Spanish language. Mafalda, his most recognized work, has been translated into dozens of languages and is an icon of world culture.
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The enormous legacy of Quino, Mafalda’s father
Mafalda was born in 1964
In 1962, Quino was commissioned with drawings to promote washing machines, and thus Mafalda emerged. That project failed and the work was saved until 1964, when the girl debuted in the pages of the weekly Primera Plana. Thus began to develop a true legend, a character with his own personality and in permanent questioning of the society in which he lived.
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The enormous legacy of Quino, Mafalda’s father
A whole team of characters
Mafalda not only conquered the hearts of Argentines, first, Latin Americans later, and all humans later. His friends Miguelito, Susanita, Libertad, Manolito and Felipe gave life to an environment where the greedy merchant mixed with the naive lover, the would-be mother, the bitter little girl and the thoughtful boy.
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The enormous legacy of Quino, Mafalda’s father
The little brother and the parents
Little is known about Mafalda’s family. Her mother’s name was Raquel and she was a housewife. His dad worked in an office that returned him home destroyed, and he distracted himself tending plants and battling ants. Mafalda’s little brother, Guille, was addicted to the pacifier and loved soup. Mafalda, on the other hand, hated her.
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The enormous legacy of Quino, Mafalda’s father
International impact
Mafalda not only appeared in newspapers. There are also books with their strips (ten in total), an edition with unpublished drawings and a gigantic volume called “Toda Mafalda”. In 1973 Quino decided to stop drawing his most emblematic character, tired of the pressure of drawing a daily drawing of the girl’s adventures. Despite this pressure, the strip never lost its level.
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The enormous legacy of Quino, Mafalda’s father
There is life behind Mafalda
After leaving Mafalda (whom he would return to promptly, for campaigns like one of Unicef, for example), Quino focused on strips that kept his style, sharp and pungent, but with anonymous characters. Their stories are usually carried out by people on the street with dreams, but mired in routine and apathy. Social criticism is not absent. That, too, is Quino’s hallmark.
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The enormous legacy of Quino, Mafalda’s father
Awarded around the world
Quino has been recognized around the world. For example, he was elected Cartoonist of the Year in 1982 in Argentina, named Knight of the Order of Isabel la Católica in 2005 and Knight of the French Legion of Honor in 2014. That same year he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities. In 2015, the Government of Chile awarded him the Pablo Neruda Artistic Merit Order.
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The enormous legacy of Quino, Mafalda’s father
Mafalda is left an orphan
In San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Mafalda is always sitting on a bench in the plaza. At the beginning alone, today together with statues of Susanita and Manolito, the pessimistic-looking girl turned into a cultural symbol remains as the great legacy of Joaquín Salvador Lavado, who died of a stroke at the age of 88 in his native Mendoza.
Author: Diego Zúñiga
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