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ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: IMF Talks Continue Despite Default on Payment
Argentina failed to meet a 2.9-billion-dollar payment to the IMF that came due Tuesday, but both sides are confident that an agreement can be reached to prevent the country from defaulting on payments to the multilateral lending institutions, as it did on privately held debt.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Supreme Court Takes Step Toward Ending Impunity
Argentina's Supreme Court took another step Monday toward ending the impunity enjoyed by human rights violators, ruling that the father of a young Swedish victim of forced disappearance could sue for justice even though he already received reparations.ARGENTINA: Poverty, Unemployment Loom Over President’s Popularity
The popularity of Argentina's president, Néstor Kirchner, has taken off in the three months since he took office, but it could come crashing down if his administration delays action on the urgent problems of high unemployment and widespread poverty.ARGENTINA: Court Reopens Cases on Dictatorship-Era Offences
An Argentine federal court decided Monday to reopen two notorious cases on human rights violations committed during the last dictatorship (1976-1983). The proceedings had been frozen for the past 16 years by amnesty laws, which Congress voted last month to annul.AGRICULTURE-ARGENTINA: The ‘Green Desert’ of Soya
Soya has become Argentina's number-one export, and the area planted with this crop is expanding each year at the expense of livestock and other traditional crops like maize, wheat, cotton, potato and lentils.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Step Closer to Trying Military Officers at Home
Argentine President Néstor Kirchner announced Friday that he had put his signature to parliament's annulment of the amnesty laws that had protected military officers from trial for human rights crimes committed during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.ARGENTINA: Six Million Go Hungry in Land of Abundance
Despite the abundance of food in Argentina, one of the world's leading producers of beef, corn, wheat and soybeans, more than six million people are unable to meet their minimum daily dietary requirements./ARTS WEEKLY/ ARGENTINA: Voices for Hire
Light-headed from so much panting, the woman takes a break. She removes her headphones and leaves the sound studio to get a drink of water, but she is gone just a few minutes because in Argentina the high demand for film and video dubbing is keeping voices like hers busy.ARGENTINA: Flood Evacuees Have Spent Winter in Tents, Waiting
Around 3,000 people in the city of Santa Fe in east-central Argentina are still living in drafty warehouses and abandoned train stations, or tents that must be evacuated when it rains, four months after their homes were destroyed by flooding.ARGENTINA: No IMF Deal Yet, but Relations May Have Turned a Corner
Argentina hopes to seal an agreement with the IMF before 2.9 billion dollars in debt comes due Sep. 9, and there are indications that the Néstor Kirchner administration is taking a more firm approach yet improving relations with the Fund, but the road remains littered with obstacles.HUMAN RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Now It’s Up to the Supreme Court
The families of the victims of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) are celebrating Thursday's annulment of the amnesty laws that protected the military regime's torturers and killers, and are looking to the Supreme Court to clear the way for bringing them to justice.HUMAN RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Now It’s Up to the Supreme Court
The families of the victims of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) are celebrating Thursday's annulment of the amnesty laws that protected the military regime's torturers and killers, and are looking to the Supreme Court to clear the way for bringing them to justice.ARGENTINA: Arrest of Ex-Guerrillas Awakens Past’s ‘Demons’
An Argentine judge put two former Montoneros guerrilla leaders behind bars Thursday, and issued an international order for the arrest of a third, accusing them of having turned over 15 of their brothers-in-arms in 1980 to agents of the Argentine dictatorship, who murdered them.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Congress Debates Repeal of Amnesty Laws
Thousands of demonstrators from more than 100 human rights groups and social organisations gathered outside the Argentine Congress Tuesday to urge it to revoke amnesty laws that let human rights violators off the hook after the 1976-1983 dictatorship.ARGENTINA: Documentary-Makers Reflect Unemployed Movement
Young documentary-makers in Argentina armed with digital video cameras are staging a sort of revival of the militant filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s, with their films conveying the struggle of today's organised unemployed workers.ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Sick Citizens Take Tannery to Court
Residents of the city of Las Toscas, in the northern Argentine province of Santa Fe, are awaiting a definitive ruling on a lawsuit they filed against a leather tannery they say dumped toxic waste that filtered into residential water sources and caused health problems, including cancer.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: New Pres. Pushes Military Brass into Retirement
Three-quarters of Argentina's highest- ranking military officers will be pushed into retirement by Argentina's new President Néstor Kirchner, ostensibly to create space to promote younger officers, though sources close to Kirchner suggest the move was designed to purge the armed forces of human rights violators.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Kirchner Pushes Military Brass into Retirement
Three-quarters of Argentina's highest- ranking military officers will be pushed into retirement by Argentina's new President Néstor Kirchner, allegedly to pave the way for a younger generation of armed forces leaders.ARGENTINA: New President Skilled at Building Power Base
Argentina's new president, Néstor Kirchner, gained a reputation as a talented administrator of a southern province with a population of just 220,000, and until recently was unfamiliar to most of the country's 37 million people.Sick Citizens Take Argentine Tannery to Court
The Arlei company is accused of dumping toxic chemicals in the province of Santa Fe. The tannery's executives decline to comment.ARGENTINA: Duhalde Leaving Gov’t Behind- and Perhaps Power
Argentina's outgoing President Eduardo Duhalde says he wants to be remembered merely as a ''pilot'' who helped Argentina weather one of its worst storms ever, and that he will now turn to writing and teaching.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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