Argentine Mathematician Cleared on Charges of Publishing Alternative Price Indexes

The long ordeal of Graciela Bevacqua and her colleagues with the Argentine government—which included being fired from its National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) division in 2007 and then facing criminal and civil charges in 2011—is nearing an end. She learned this month that a judge ruled in her favor in the criminal trial. In 2013, she learned a civil fine was revoked. One fine remains to be settled. Two of the many news stories in Spanish are here and here. To read more on this story, see this 2012 Amstat News piece and this 2012 Significance article.