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Beaten and persecuted: The hell of three women who broke with the Mennonites in Argentina

“This is the last trip. I ask for your forgiveness, but get me there quickly.” Elizabet Bueckert whispered these words to her chestnut horse at dusk on January 17, 2026. Her cart sped along the dirt roads of the Orthodox Mennonite colony of La Nueva Esperanza (“The New Hope”), in the rural Argentine province of La Pampa. That day, she had spent hours away from her husband’s house, sheltering with her two young daughters in a shed, attempting to avoid his insults. The 33-year-old woman decided that the moment she had fantasized about so many times had finally arrived.

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Traditional cart and tourist van in the La Nueva Esperanza Colony, La Pampa.Milk jugs and clothes drying in the sun, in the La Nueva Esperanza neighborhood.The dress that Elizabeth Bueckert wore on the day she left the colony.

Photography:

Anita Pouchard Serra

Design and layout:

Mónica Juárez Martín and Ángel Hernández

Visual editing:

Gladys Serrano and Mónica González

Translation:

Avik Jain Chatlani

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Katherina, 30, fled the Mennonite community and now lives with her children in a hotel room in Santa Rosa.

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María has been granted legal custody of her 15- and 12-year-old daughters, but they are currently living in the colony.

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The children of Katherina and María in Santa Rosa, La Pampa.

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Santa Rosa Lagoon, La Pampa, where Katherina and her children live.
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Maradona’s lawyer and two of his sisters to stand trial over ‘undue profit’ from his trademarks

An Argentine court on Tuesday ordered the case to proceed to trial against Diego Armando Maradona’s last lawyer and legal representative, Matías Morla, as well as his sisters Rita Mabel and Claudia Norma Maradona, who are accused of defrauding the sports icon’s legitimate heirs in the exploitation of his commercial trademarks. More than five years after the star’s death, the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 43 rejected a request to dismiss the charges and declared the investigative phase closed.

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The trial to demand justice for the Maradona case in Buenos Aires, on April 14.
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