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DEVELOPMENT-ARGENTINA: Plummeting into Poverty
Argentina's economic crisis has pushed 2.5 million people into poverty in just four months, and today nearly half of the country's population of 36.2 million are poor, according to official figures.DEVELOPMENT-ARGENTINA: Plummeting into Poverty
Argentina's economic crisis has pushed 2.5 million people into poverty in just four months, and today nearly half of the country's population of 36.2 million are poor, according to official figures.ARGENTINA: Under IMF Pressure, Senate Repeals Bank Corruption Law
Yielding to pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Argentine Senate voted Thursday to overturn a 1974 law that allowed bankers, business owners and government officials to be prosecuted for financial crimes.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: Early Elections, a Real Possibility
The government of Eduardo Duhalde, who was designated caretaker president of Argentina last January to govern for two years, is showing such severe signs of weakening that early elections are becoming a stronger and stronger possibility.ARGENTINA: Economy Minister Expects IMF Agreement Soon
Argentina's Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna is confident about reaching a much sought-after agreement this month with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in spite of congressional resistance to passing the laws required for the accord and the announcement of a labour strike.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: The ‘Madres’ of Civil Resistance
The Madres (Mothers) de Plaza de Mayo, who met for the first time in Argentina 25 years ago, have never found their sons and daughters, who were abducted by agents of the 1976-83 military dictatorship.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Exchange Market Gives Gov’t Breathing Room
The stability of the Argentine peso gave the government some breathing space Monday after a week-long bank and foreign exchange holiday, and as the new Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna began to settle into his job.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Crisis, Political Pacts Limit New Minister
Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde designated a new economy minister Friday, Roberto Lavagna, a respected economist willing to tread the line between the need for fiscal discipline and the urgency of restarting the strangled economy.POPULATION: Jews Flee Crisis-Ridden Argentina to War-Torn Israel
Thousands of Argentine Jews are emigrating to Israel, despite the escalation of the armed conflict in the Middle East, because they are tired of suffering poverty, labour instability, economic uncertainty and the lack of public safety in this crisis-stricken Southern Cone country./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/BOOKS-ARGENTINA: Fair Struggles to Survive amidst National Crisis
The economic crisis in Argentina has meant a reduced Buenos Aires Book Fair this year, with fewer bookshops, publishers, distributors, writers and buyers making an appearance. The prices are the only things that have increased.ARGENTINA: Economy Minister Jumps a Sinking Ship
Argentina's Economy Minister Jorge Remes Lenicov resigned Tuesday due to parliament's refusal to back a bill that would force savers to swap their fixed-term deposits for five or 10-year bonds, in the midst of the worst crisis in the history of Latin America's third-largest economy.ARGENTINA: Savers May Be Forced to Swap Deposits for Bonds
The Argentine government sent a legislative proposal to Congress early Monday for authorisation to enact an obligatory exchange of fixed-term deposits for five- to 10-year bonds in an attempt to prevent the collapse of the country's financial system.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Bonds for Deposits, to Overcome Banking Crisis
The Argentine government is studying a bill that would force some account-holders to swap their deposits, which have been frozen in the banks since early December, into goverment bonds with a ten year maturity, in an attempt to overcome the crisis that has crippled the banking system.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: IMF Blocks All Ways Out, Except Its Own
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has formulated such strict requirements for the Argentine government just to begin negotiating an emergency loan that it has fuelled unprecedented opposition in this South American country to any agreement with the multilateral institution.POPULATION-ARGENTINA: Crisis Hits Elderly Especially Hard
The woes of the growing number of people over 60 in Argentina have worsened with the country's economic collapse, due to pensions that have shrunk to often ridiculously low levels because of the devaluation, a health system weakened by shortages of medicines, and a deterioration of the social safety net on which they could fall back.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: Cavallo’s Arms Indictment May Drag in Menem
Argentine justice authorities indicted the already-detained former Economy minister, Domingo Cavallo, Wednesday, for his alleged role in illegal arms sales, and judges are once again turning their gaze to former president Carlos Menem for the same case.ARGENTINA: Crisis Takes Heavy Toll on Educational System
Argentina's economic collapse has driven middle-class students from private to public schools en masse this year, while thousands of poor children and teenagers have dropped out of the public school system.ARGENTINA: Cavallo Arrested in Arms Smuggling Affaire
Argentina's former economy minister Domingo Cavallo was arrested Wednesday in connection with the Ecuador-Croatia arms-smuggling scandal that led to ex-president Carlos Menem being held under house arrest for five months last year.ARGENTINA: Malvinas/Falklands War Continues to Claim Victims
Some 270 Argentine veterans of the Malvinas/Falklands war committed suicide in the 20 years since the conflict, and most of the survivors of the battle against British troops today are unemployed and lack adequate housing.DEVELOPMENT-ARGENTINA: Images of a Shipwrecked Nation
The sinking of Argentina is leading impoverished women and men to take desperate measures, selling their hair or blood, jumping on an overturned cattle truck to butcher the animals on the spot, or taking money to hold a place in a queue outside a bank all night long.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Unstoppable Demand for Dollars
The Argentine peso continued to suffer Tuesday after plummeting 22 percent Monday with respect to the dollar, in spite of government measures implemented following a 20 percent depreciation Friday.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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