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ARGENTINA: Book Distribution in Stadiums – a ‘Novel’ Project
Fans in Argentina's football stadiums will now have a new activity during half-time: reading short stories by local writers, handed out as part of an innovative initiative aimed at calming tempers, which often flare up during games, while boosting the reading habit.ARGENTINA: NGOs Campaign for Clean Politics
''Political Reform Now!'' is the theme of a campaign to be launched next month by a group of civil society organisations in Argentina, fed up with a political system widely seen as riddled with corruption.ARGENTINA: Third Justice on Corruption-Tainted Supreme Court Resigns
The political offensive in Argentina to restore the prestige of the Supreme Court led to the fall of yet another judge, who handed in his resignation Thursday to avoid an imminent impeachment trial for malfeasance.ARGENTINA-BRAZIL: FTAA Puts Consensus to the Test
Argentina and Brazil are not going to sign just any accord for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), said Argentina's foreign minister Wednesday.SPORTS-ARGENTINA: Display of Maradona’s Glory Years to Tour World
A travelling museum dedicated to Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, considered by many to be the best footballer of all time, will soon begin to tour the world.ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Saving Patagonia’s Wild Cattle
The wild cattle of the glaciers of southern Patagonia may be saved from oblivion by two Argentine scientists who, for the past 15 years, have been studying these abandoned animals in a bid to decipher what could be crucial genetic information.Saving Patagonia's Wild Cattle
Some 80 head of cattle, direct descendants of the livestock brought to the Americas by Christopher Columbus, have been removed from the glacier-covered mountains of southern Argentina. Experts aim to study their genetic makeup.TRADE: A Strategy Meeting for G20+
Government ministers from the Group of 20+ (until recently known as G22) developing countries are to gather Friday in the Argentine capital to explore strategies for renewing the multilateral negotiations that stalled last month at the 5th World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference.ARGENTINA: Now Hiring – Honest Police Chiefs
Argentina's two main police forces, the federal and Buenos Aires provincial forces, have been left without police chiefs due to corruption scandals.MUSIC-ARGENTINA: Gardel and the Raging Debate on His Origins
Tango icon Carlos Gardel smiles down from murals painted all over the historic neighbourhood of Abasto in the Argentine capital, and from photos on the walls of the restaurant that carries his name, on Gardel street, as if he were enjoying the raging debate on the mysteries surrounding his life.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: 40 Years of Secret Police Files Revealed
For 40 years, a secret police unit in Argentina gathered copious intelligence on student, labour and social activists and a broad range of civil society organisations, remaining active under the democratic governments that alternated in power with military regimes.ARGENTINA: Identity Dispute for Child of the ‘Disappeared’
A human rights group in Argentina announced Wednesday that it would turn to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that a young woman does not have to undergo genetic testing to verify her identity.Evelyn Vázquez, 26, is thought to be the daughter of two of the 1976-1983 dictatorship's victims of forced disappearance.
ARGENTINA: Identity Dispute for Child of the ‘Disappeared’
A human rights group in Argentina announced Wednesday that it would turn to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that a young woman does not have to undergo genetic testing to verify her identity.HUMAN RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Time for Justice
Nearly 20 years after Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship came to an end, public opinion and the government finally seem to be focusing on the same demand: that human rights violators be brought to justice./ARTS WEEKLY/ARGENTINA: Big Orchestra, Little Musicians
The children squirm and laugh until the instructor counts to three. Then they turn their attention to the musical score in front of them and, with their cellos held just so, they begin to play a few bars of music, repeating it over and over again - just like professional musicians do.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Government Proposes Record-Setting Write-Off
Argentina on Monday proposed a 75-percent write-off of its 94.3 billion dollars in debt held by private creditors, representing the biggest and most complex debt restructuring offer in contemporary economic history.ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Seeking Safeguards for Vast Wetlands
Scientists, environmentalists, farmers, fisher-people and politicians in Argentina are coming up with innovative formulas for the joint management of three million hectares of wetlands in the Parana-Paraguay river basin, one of the world's biggest reservoirs of freshwater and biodiversity.ARGENTINA: Proposed Budget Heavy on the Social Side
Argentina's president, Néstor Kirchner, showed his economic hand Wednesday, sending to Congress a 2004 budget that calls for increased spending on social programmes, education and public works, but also maintaining fiscal solvency.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Noose Closes Around Symbol of ‘Dirty War’
Former navy captain Alfredo Astiz, a symbol of the appalling human rights violations committed by Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, was arrested Tuesday./ARTS WEEKLY/ARGENTINA: Theatre Group Raises Awareness on ‘Disappeared’ Children
Just three years after two prominent actors in Argentina brought to the stage the story of a young woman who had been illegally adopted after her parents were ''disappeared'' during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, around 800 people are now involved in the ''Theatre for Identity'' movement.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: IMF Deal a Close Victory
The agreement Argentina reached with the IMF to refinance its foreign debt was applauded Thursday by leaders from across the country's political spectrum. But the deal demands a fiscal surplus that will put President Néstor Kirchner's economic growth plan to the test.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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