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RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Pardon for Junta Members Ruled Unconstitutional
A federal judge in Argentina ruled Friday that two of the 10 presidential pardons that let the former commanders of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship off the hook are unconstitutional.ENVIRONMENT: Prepare for the Worst, Says Next Host of Climate Change Meet
In the past five international conferences on climate change, hopes have focused on attempts to get the United States and Russia to agree to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. But the wait has been in vain, and the global meetings flopped, one after another./ARTS WEEKLY/ LITERATURE-ARGENTINA: It’s Gombrowicz’s Turn
Czech writer Milan Kundera considers the author's work the precursor to the modern European novel, and Mexico's Carlos Fuentes says one of his novels should be included among the 10 best of the 20th century, but Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz never imagined fame when he went hungry, living as an outcast in Argentina.TRADE: Mercosur Closer to EU, While FTAA Talks Falter
The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is slated to take effect in less than 10 months, but this week in Buenos Aires it ran into more stumbling blocks. In contrast, the free trade process involving Mercosur (Southern Common Market) and the European Union, facing no deadlines, continues to advance.ARGENTINA: Last-Minute IMF Agreement Averts Default
Argentina and the International Monetary Fund reached an accord Tuesday on steps for negotiating the country's debt with private creditors, which had become the crux of the difficult talks under way with the institution, even though the country had comfortably met the agreed fiscal goals./ARTS WEEKLY/ARGENTINA: Bringing Classical Music to the Workers
Accustomed to playing for a small cultural elite in fancy theatres and churches, the National Symphonic Orchestra of Argentina, created in 1948, performed for the first time ever in a factory, as part of a novel programme aimed at reaching out to new audiences.LABOUR-ARGENTINA: New Law, Old Flexibility
Argentina passed a new labour law Wednesday, replacing the one enacted four years ago amidst a corruption scandal. But critics see little progress in protection for workers' rights in a context of high unemployment and widespread poverty.
'Precaution should be the new paradigm for conservation'
Award-winning Argentine biologist Claudio Campagna is promoting a new model for preserving the whale habitat of the Patagonian coast.RIGHTS: Tensions Ease as Argentina Pledges Not to Censure Cuba
Cuba can rest a bit easier knowing that its Latin American ally Argentina will not vote to censure the island nation in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights this year.ARGENTINA: In Defence of Weeds – the Edible Kind
Imagine an incredible variety of nutritional plants growing abundantly everywhere without the need to even plant, water or fertilise them, while people go hungry nearby.ARGENTINA: Women Open Gates to Rural Tourism
Rural tourism in Argentina emerged in the mid-1990s in a bid to overcome the local agricultural crisis, and has established itself as a successful complementary business, one in which women hold the reins.ARGENTINA: Middle Class Shuns Former Ally, the Unemployed
The recovery of Argentina's economy has turned the middle class against its former allies in demanding political change: the movement of unemployed workers, whose roadblocks across the country Thursday failed to win many friends.ENVIRONMENT: Argentina Assesses Vulnerability to Climate Change
One hundred Argentine scientists and technicians will work on a project over the next two years to measure the country's greenhouse gas emissions and to determine where its vulnerabilities lie with respect to the impacts of climate change.SOUTH AMERICA: Guarani Aquifer and Allegations of Terrorist Presence
Civil society groups in the tri-border region where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay come together are planning their own ''social forum'' this year to protest what they see as the underlying objective behind U.S. allegations of a terrorist presence in the area.SOUTH AMERICA: Guarani Aquifer and Allegations of Terrorist Presence
Civil society groups in the tri-border region where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay come together are planning their own ''social forum'' this year to protest what they see as the underlying objective behind U.S. allegations of a terrorist presence in the area./ARTS WEEKLY/BOOKS-ARGENTINA: Rubbish to Read
Nothing is as it should be at a small publishing house that has been hailed as one of Argentina's great cultural successes. Today, the offices smell of garlic and onion, there is no money to print books and the editor himself is the one cutting the book covers, made with cardboard scavenged from the garbage.Argentina Measures Climate Change Impacts
A 1.14-million-dollar project announced for assessing Argentina's vulnerability to the effects of global warming.ARGENTINA: Steadfast Against Impatient IMF, Hovering Vulture Funds
A former Argentine official takes every opportunity to point out that during the Fernando de la Rúa administration (1999-2001), when the provinces negotiated from a position of power against a weakened president, there was one governor who was unyielding, but who always kept his word when it came to causes he considered just.ARGENTINA: Patent-Holders and Farmers Battle Over GM Seeds
The unprecedented expansion of transgenic soy in Argentina, which has become the country's leading export, has triggered a heated controversy between seed-patent owners and farmers who defend their right to save and replant seeds without paying additional royalties./ARTS WEEKLY/ FILM-ARGENTINA: The Crisis According to Solanas
"Others make the decisions, we watch the children die," a paediatrician, with an air of resignation, tells the camera, summarising the theme of the new film by Fernando Solanas, "Memoria del saqueo" (A Social Genocide), which made its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this week.ARGENTINA: Soya Drives New Rural Prosperity – But for How Long?
Looking like spaceships that suddenly landed in the middle of the Argentine Pampas, combine harvesters are the symbol of the new rural prosperity, moving relentlessly, deliberately through immense soya fields.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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