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RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Raising Children Behind Bars
Soledad Acevedo was an 18-year-old mother of two eking out a living by means of menial casual work in 2002 when she was sent to prison in the Argentina province of Buenos Aires, accused of armed robbery and attempted homicide. Now she is 24, and is excited as she meets with IPS in her cell.ARGENTINA: The Brazilian Investment Invasion
Heavily invested in the oil and cement industries, as well as mining and steel, textiles, cosmetics, banks, food and beverages, Brazilian capital is edging Europe out of pole position in foreign direct investment (FDI) within Argentina.ARGENTINA: Bad Trips for Most, High Speed Trains for the Few
The Argentine government has given the go-ahead for a high-speed electric train which may be the first in Latin America. But experts and, above all, commuters who travel daily on slow, shabby suburban trains are angry, because the multi-million dollar project will only benefit an elite few.ARGENTINA: Multimedia Youngsters not Isolated
Many parents in Argentina, like their counterparts in developed countries, worry that their teenage children spend too much time on their computers and cell-phones, with little real-life interaction with others, and devoting hardly any time to reading. But a new study shows that such beliefs are partly based on preconceived notions that do not stand up to scrutiny.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Manufactured Crisis?
The ongoing conflict between the Argentine government and the country’s rural associations has prompted growing numbers of savers to withdraw their bank deposits in pesos and change them for dollars, even though experts, pointing to the strong fiscal situation and high levels of foreign reserves, say there is no reason to worry.ARGENTINA: Food Inflation Hits People Close to Poverty Line
Poverty is once again growing in Argentina, reversing the downward trend recorded since 2003, as a result of price inflation mainly affecting basic food products, analysts say. But the government’s only response, according to its critics, has been to stop reporting poverty statistics.ARGENTINA: Smoke Was a Long Time Coming
"The work has been relentless. We finish putting out one big fire and another one breaks out in the same area." This remark by a firefighter in Argentina, frustrated at the grass fires on the islands in the Paraná river delta, was not made this month, while smoke has covered Buenos Aires and even the capital of neighbouring Uruguay, but in 2004.ARGENTINA: Training Health Agents to Reduce Child Mortality
An ambitious new programme for training health agents to help reduce infant mortality in small rural communities and indigenous villages, launched by one of Argentina’s best-known human rights groups, drew many more applicants than the organisers had hoped for.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Mr. Kirchner, the eminence Not-So-Grise
Above and beyond its impact on the markets or the economy itself, the change of economy minister in Argentina has clearly demonstrated the enormous power that former President Néstor Kirchner exerts within the government of his wife and successor, President Cristina Fernández, analysts say.ARGENTINA: Fires Heat Up Conflict with Farmers
The government and farmers in Argentina, caught up in a month-long confrontation over an export tax increase, clashed again Thursday because of the extensive burning of grasslands that has thrown a pall of smoke over the capital and has even reached parts of neighbouring Uruguay.ARGENTINA: Museum Charts Roller Coaster of Foreign Debt
Anyone wondering why a country as rich in natural resources as Argentina has such a large proportion of its population living in poverty should definitely visit a cultural enclave that is virtually hidden away in the bustling capital city: the Foreign Debt Museum.ARGENTINA: Activists Criticise New Law on Trafficking in Persons
Women’s rights groups that fought hard for a new law to crack down on trafficking in persons in Argentina are opposed to the legislation that was finally passed by Congress after years of debate because it requires victims over the age of 18 to prove that they did not give their consent to be sexually exploited.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Poised for the Qualitative Leap?
A new ECLAC study highlights Argentina’s robust economic recovery in the past five years, and signals an opportunity to progress towards a model that adds value to raw materials, which make up most of the country’s exports.ARGENTINA: Farmers Declare One-Month Truce
Thousands of farmers meeting in an assembly Wednesday decided to call off a three-week farm strike involving roadblocks around the country that have caused food shortages in the cities, and declared a truce to continue talks with the government.ARGENTINA: Empty Shelves, Drowned Chicks as Farm Strike Rages
Millions of litres of milk have been dumped out in Argentina, tons of tomatoes, carrots, bananas and oranges have rotted in trucks, beef has been unavailable in butcher shops and supermarkets in the capital for the past six days, and millions of chicks have had to be drowned because of the lack of chicken feed.ARGENTINA: Farm Strike Exposes Fernandez’s Weak Flank
The conflict with the rural associations has highlighted political weaknesses of the new Argentine government of President Cristina Fernández and shown that economic recovery is necessary but not sufficient to remedy latent social tensions.
ARGENTINA-BRAZIL: Planned Binational Dam Under Fire
Feeling the pressure of rising energy demand, the governments of Argentina and Brazil are taking a fresh look at old plans for the Garabí hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River, which environmentalists say would endanger the flow of this already highly exploited water source.ARGENTINA: The Return of the “Cacerolazo”
Thousands of middle-class Argentines took to the streets late Tuesday in a "cacerolazo" or pot-banging protest, this time against the centre-left government of President Cristina Fernández, showing that the methods learned in the crisis that broke out in late 2001 are still alive.
Criticisms Multiply Against Binational Dam
Ecologists in Argentina and Brazil are sounding the alarm against the potential harm to the Uruguay River, shared by three countries, that could result from the planned Garabí dam.ARGENTINA: Farmers Up in Arms Against Export Tax Hike
Farmers in Argentina are on their ninth day of protests against a recent government decision to increase taxes on exports of grain, whose prices have skyrocketed thanks to strong international demand.
ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Privatise Wetlands to Protect Them?
The vast Esteros del Iberá wetland, in northeast Argentina, is the focus of a controversy pitting conservationist goals against business interests, with private and public entities found on both sides.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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