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ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Lack of Confidence Runs Deep
The Argentine government's plan for restructuring the debt through a bond swap and reactivating the economy has not vanquished the lack of confidence dominating the financial markets, and on Friday the state-issued bonds took another plunge.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Police Death Squads Kill Minors, Says Court
Death squads made up of police officers in Argentina kill suspected juvenile delinquents and minors who have reported police brutality, according to human rights groups, politicians and the judiciary.ENVIRONMENT: Crucial Climate Meet to ‘Dot the I’s and Cross the T’s’
Representatives of 175 countries will meet Oct 29 through Nov 9 in Morocco for a task that looks technical to the layperson, but is crucial for getting countries to meet their 2002 targets for reducing emissions of the gases responsible for global warming./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ART-ARGENTINA: Doors Open for New Museum of Latin American Art
The Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA) has been inaugurated in the Argentine capital with an exhibition that is a showcase of 300 works by noted painters from 10 countries in the region, among them some of the 20th century's best.ENVIRONMENT: Latam and Caribbean Prepare for Rio+10 Summit
Foreign and environment ministers of Latin America and the Caribbean are meeting this week in Rio de Janeiro to sign a document which warns that nearly 10 years after the Earth Summit - held in the same city - extreme poverty continues to threaten sustainable development.ENERGY: The Challenge of Expanding Supplies to 2 Billion People
The lack of access to electricity by one-third of the world population is the biggest challenge facing suppliers, oil industry representatives and government officials from more than 60 countries, meeting in the Argentine capital, agreed Monday.AGRICULTURE-ARGENTINA: Fields Turned into Oceans
The highway that runs through the central Argentine province of La Pampa - part of the region once known as the world's breadbasket - looks like a never-ending pier stretching out across a calm, flat ocean of water.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: Gov’t Dealt Expected Blow at the Polls
The government of Fernando de la Rúa was dealt a harsh blow in Sunday's legislative elections in Argentina, in which the opposition 'Justicialista' (Peronist) Party triumphed, mainly due to generalised ill-feeling over a three-year recession.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: Disillusionment Leads the Polls
"Enough reality and facts! We want promises" reads a graffito that can be seen on several walls of the Argentine capital, where scepticism is the overriding sensation with respect to Sunday's legislative elections.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: Women’s Presence in Senate Set to Take Off
The stars of the campaign for next Sunday's parliamentary elections in Argentina are men and the female candidates enjoy limited name recognition. Nevertheless, the number of women senators is set to increase at least 12-fold.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Devaluate No, ‘Dollarise’ Maybe
The Argentine government admitted Thursday that it may "dollarise" the economy if the current crisis persists, after worsening in the last few days and feeding fears of a devaluation of the Argentine peso, the exchange rate of which has not been altered in 10 years.TRANSPORT: Good News for Argentine Airline Amidst Turbulence
At one of the darkest moments ever faced by the commercial airline industry, Aerolíneas Argentinas, acquired by a private Spanish consortium, seems to have been snatched from the verge of collapse, where it has been wavering for the past six months.HEALTH-ARGENTINA: Anxiety Invades a Nation in Crisis
Beatriz Blanco is a middle-class Argentinean, 34, a psychologist, married with two children and relatively well off economically. Nevertheless, she is overcome with anxiety, fears losing her job or that her husband will lose his, and grows depressed thinking about her friends who are leaving the country in search of a better future.TRADE-LATAM: Fissures Appear in Mercosur Trade Bloc
Officials and business leaders in Argentina and Brazil admitted for the first time this week the possibility of suspending South America's Mercosur customs union, due to the major disparities between the two biggest member countries.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Trial Begins on Jewish Centre Bomb Attack
Argentine justice won international attention Monday with the beginning of the trial of 20 people who are accused of being the "local connection" in a 1994 car-bomb attack against a Jewish centre here that killed 86 people and is believed to have been planned outside of Argentina.LABOUR-ARGENTINA: Massive Rally Concludes March against Poverty
The Argentine capital received massive caravans of workers, the unemployed, rights activists, small farmers and business owners Friday as they ended a 10-day mobilisation to demand the creation of a national unemployment insurance system.CULTURE-ARGENTINA: Shoestring Films a Threat to Hollywood
Argentine filmmakers Julio Midú and Fabio Junco churn out four feature-length movies a year - at a cost averaging 140 dollars each - in Saladillo, a town of 30,000 people. Their films draw more than 500 viewers to the only local theatre, a much larger audience than Hollywood films attract.ARGENTINA: Families of Bomb Victims Urge US to Avoid Vengeance
The families of the victims of the 1992 and 1994 bombings of the Israeli Embassy and a leading Jewish social organisation in Argentina expressed their solidarity Monday with the relatives of those killed in last week's attacks in the United States, and urged that country not to take the route of vengeance.ARGENTINA: Civil Society Questions Joint Military Exercises
Joint military exercises sponsored by the United States and conducted by nine countries of the Americas in Argentina have drawn criticism from the opposition and non- governmental organisations, who charge that the troops were training in the repression of internal social protests.ENVIRONMENT-LATAM: Recovery of Ozone Layer Up to Poor Countries
Developing countries must accelerate their efforts to reduce the use and production of ozone-depleting substances, as the industrialised North has already done, in order to make possible a total recovery of the ozone layer by 2050, experts underline.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Public University Suggests Alternative Policies
Economists at Argentina's leading public university drew up alternative proposals to the government's economic model for the first time in the history of this Southern Cone country.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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