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ARGENTINA: President for Two Days for a Country in Flames
The new president of Argentina, Ramón Puerta of the Justicialista (Peronist) Party, will govern for just 48 hours, until Congress designates a caretaker president who will either call elections or serve out the rest of the term of the outgoing Fernando de la Rúa.ARGENTINA: The Fall of the Neo-liberal Model
The ouster of Fernando de la Rúa as president of Argentina signified the failure of the neo-liberal model that was already floundering when the government that collapsed Thursday took office two years ago, according to local analysts.ARGENTINA: De la Rua Resigns Amid Chaos
Argentine President Fernando de la Rúa resigned Thursday after two days of rioting and looting plunged this Southern Cone country into a state of anarchy.ARGENTINA: Social and Political Breakdown at Dizzying Speed
Argentina's acute political, economic and social crisis brought the government of Fernando de la Rúa to bay Thursday, after 16 people were killed in a wave of rioting and looting, thousands of protesters spontaneously took to the streets, and Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo resigned.ARGENTINA: Social Crisis Triggers Wave of Looting
The acute social and economic crisis plaguing Argentina has sparked a wave of looting of supermarkets by men and women of all ages.2001-2002: Argentine Economy on the Brink, or in Freefall?
Argentine President Fernando de la Rúa, whose approval ratings have plummeted to below 10 percent, is the democratically elected leader whose popularity has taken the fastest plunge in the history of the country, due to a social and economic crisis that shows no signs of letting up.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: General Strike Paralyses a Nation in Crisis
The whole of Argentina was largely paralysed Thursday as a result of a general strike organised by the country's three main labour unions, the seventh in the two years since President Fernando de la Rúa took office.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Crisis Swallows Up Every Possible Solution
Argentina's economic crisis has turned into a monster, devouring all potential remedies as they arise. The government's new measures, announced on weekly basis, only seem to deepen the recession, while options for avoiding a debt default are disappearing and even last-ditch plans are being ruled out ahead of time.FINANCE-ARGENTINA: A Trip to Washington Aims to Head Off Disaster
Argentina's Economy Minister, Domingo Cavallo, made a last-minute decision Thursday to fly to Washington, where he will meet with International Monetary Fund's board to seek a way out of the grave economic and financial crisis that is threatening to push Latin America's third largest economy into a debt default.AGRICULTURE-ARGENTINA: Organic Farming, a Ray of Hope Amid Crisis
Organic agricultural production in Argentina has brought a ray of hope for farmers in a country where conventional producers have been hit hard by a nearly four-year recession, a drying up of credit, floods and slumping commodity prices.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Savers Feel Resigned to New Banking Rules
Argentine banks received anxious customers on Monday, people worried about the limits on withdrawals that the government announced over the weekend in a bid to prevent savers from emptying their accounts and to protect the financial system from collapse.ARGENTINA: Political Crisis over Eventual Presidential Successor
The next in line for the presidency in crisis-stricken Argentina if anything happens to President Fernando de la Rúa is a member of the opposition 'Justicialista' (Peronist) Party, who was named head of the Senate Thursday.HEALTH-ARGENTINA: Disabled Children, Victims of Spending Cuts
Police in Argentina broke up a protest vigil staged outside the seat of government by the parents of disabled children whose desperately needed state pensions and assistance programmes are endangered by the government's fiscal austerity measures.RIGHTS-LATAM: Subtle or Brutal, Violence against Women Persists
Physical violence against women was mostly a private matter in Latin America and the Caribbean until, over the course of the last 20 years, women's groups were able to bring the problem into the public sphere. But the blows women suffer are just the tip of the iceberg, the most extreme dimension of a broader phenomenon that has deep cultural roots.CULTURE-ARGENTINA: The Factory Closed, but the Band Played On
A Belgian who emigrated to Argentina in 1928 decided to set up a band with the workers in his textile factory, like the one his father directed back home. But when the company collapsed in 1996 under a flood of cheap imports, the band played on.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: Controversy Erupts with Menem’s Release
Argentina's Supreme Court of Justice ordered the release of former president Carlos Menem (1989-1999) from five months' house arrest on arms trafficking charges, a move likely to make prosecutors and judges think twice before accusing political leaders of corruption.ECONOMY: Argentina, the IMF’s Biggest Headache
Argentina, the most difficult case the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is currently facing, began restructuring its debt Monday, with no certainty of meeting its fiscal targets this year.HEALTH-ARGENTINA: AIDS Patients Cast Adrift
There is a lack of continuity in medical treatment for the thousands of Argentines who are HIV- positive or have full-blown AIDS, a problem activists blame on the government's increasingly limited and unpredictable financial and political support for AIDS programmes.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Court Deals Another Blow to Military’s Impunity
An Argentine appeals court has upheld a lower court's annulment of the laws that in the 1980s gave legal amnesty to some 1,000 military personnel and police who committed human rights violations during the country's most recent dictatorship (1976-1983).POPULATION-ARGENTINA: Gov’t Ministers to Fill In as Census-Takers
The Argentine government announced Thursday that its ministers, state employees, military personnel and police will conduct the national census, slated to take place Nov 17-18, replacing the teachers who had been entrusted with the task but who now refuse because they are owed several months' wages.HEALTH-ARGENTINA: Climate Change Spawns Return of Diseases
Climate change, the effects of which have begun to be felt in Argentina, has led to the reappearance of tropical diseases for which the population is unprepared, to the extent that international experts are already referring to "the case of Argentina."« Previous Page — Next Page »
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