16 Facts About Myriam Bregman

Myriam Bregman was born on 25 February 1972 and is an Argentine lawyer, activist, and politician.

Myriam Bregman was one of the lawyers who took the case of Jorge Julio Lopez, an eyewitness of the 1970s military dictatorship who disappeared in 2006 after testifying against Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz, who was sentenced to life imprisonment and charged with genocide accusations for the crimes he committed during the dictatorship.

Myriam Bregman first ran for a seat in Congress in 2009 and for Chief of government of the City of Buenos Aires in 2011 and 2015 by the Workers' Left Front.

Myriam Bregman ran as vice-presidential candidate for the Front in the 2015 Argentine general election, coming fourth.

Myriam Bregman has participated in defending and assessing employed and unemployed workers in Buenos Aires City and in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Neuquen.

Myriam Bregman stood out in the defense of Catalina Balaguer, a female PepsiCo worker and activist who was fired unjustly and was later reincorporated although she was not formally a union delegate.

Myriam Bregman represented PepsiCo workers against the illegal closure of the Vicente Lopez factory on June 20,2017, and sued attorney Gaston Larramendi, who ordered the factory's eviction a week earlier.

Myriam Bregman has participated in several court cases defending activists and workers from police repression and political and trade union persecution.

Myriam Bregman is part of Carla Lacorte's team of lawyers.

Myriam Bregman participates in the case investigation of Federal Police agent Americo Balbuena, who infiltrated social organizations to spy on them.

Myriam Bregman intervened on the oral trials against crimes committed in the Higher School of Mechanics of the Navy against prefect Hector Febres, and in the second trial against 18 genocide criminals, representing, among others, the case of Rodolfo Walsh, Raimundo Villaflor and organisations such as the Former Disappeared Detainees Association.

Myriam Bregman denounced that she received phone call threats in her office after her intervention in the Labour and Budget Commission where she questioned the first employment bill because she considered that it was a measure to legalise outsourcing.

Myriam Bregman is among the people who founded and manage the Professionist Center for Human Rights.

On 31 May 2018, Myriam Bregman assisted to the 15th day of debate on legalizing Abortion in Argentina in the Argentine Congress to present her position in favour of legalizing abortion by declaring that "we are proud to see many young people with the green handkerchief as their banner".

Myriam Bregman took the opportunity to criticise the Catholic Church and La Plata Archbishop Hector Aguer, who "has as their transmission band local governors, who negotiate with women's rights".

Myriam Bregman is a Jewish atheist and is of German Jewish descent.