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Friday, October 2, 2026
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AGRICULTURE: New Fight Over Subsidies in WTO
Although slumping prices of farm commodities and the fact that the United States is caught up in an election year look like unrelated issues, they have combined to provide an inauspicious backdrop for the renewal of farm talks in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) next Monday.COMMUNICATION-LATAM: Women’s Supplements Go Beyond Beauty Tips
Supplements aimed at the female readers of newspapers in Latin America are no longer limited to beauty and fashion tips, recipes, advice on child-rearing and interior decorating, and horoscopes.TRADE: Tug-of-War Between State Governors in Argentina, Brazil
Governors of provinces in Argentina called on Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso Thursday to keep state governments in his country from drawing companies away from Argentina.DEVELOPMENT-ARGENTINA: Newspaper Vendors Receive Tourism Training
Some 500 newspaper vendors from the areas of the Argentine capital most frequented by tourists have been trained how to best respond to the questions of foreign visitors and how to guide them with explanations and brochures in Spanish, English or Portuguese.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Army Chief Condemns ‘Baby Stealing’
Argentine army chief General Ricardo Brinzoni described the kidnapping of children during the 1976-83 military dictatorship as an "unforgivable aberration," and expressed his hopes that the biological families would find the lost youngsters.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Legislating Larger Clothing Sizes for Women
The Argentine Senate is discussing a bill that would force manufacturers of apparel to produce a larger range of sizes for women, to keep from marginalising a sector of consumers and avoid contributing to the emergence of eating disorders, which currently affect one out of 10 adolescents.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: The Poor Women of Eva Peron’s Generation
They were born in the 1920s and 1930s in Argentina and in their youth believed the future was theirs. But today they suffer many forms of social exclusion because, in addition to being elderly and female, they recieve pitiful pensions or are working in the most unstable of jobs.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Two Daughters of Disappeared Recover Identity
Two young women recently learned that their parents disappeared at the hands of the military during Argentina's most recent dictatorship (1976-1983). One had been adopted by a family in good faith, while the other had been given to a military officer who then claimed she was his biological daughter.POPULATION-ARGENTINA: Rising Xenophobia Against Rumanian Families
Some 7,000 people have come to Argentina since the government launched a programme to attract immigrants from eastern Europe in the mid-1990s.TRADE: Brazil, ‘Scapegoat’ for Argentina’s Crisis, Say Analysts
While business and political leaders in Argentina blame the woes of local agriculture and industry on the decline in trade triggered by last year's crash of Brazil's currency, the real, economic analysts suggest that before pointing fingers, they take a hard look at themselves first.FISHERIES-ARGENTINA: Stocks Depleted by EU Boats, Lax Controls
The hake fishing grounds off Argentina's Atlantic coast were, until recently, among the richest in the world. But they are now on the verge of depletion due to over-fishing by European boats and the failure of local authorities to implement stricter controls over the industry.LABOUR-ARGENTINA: Reforms a Headache for New Government
A bill to overhaul Agentina's labour laws along the lines of recommendations from multilateral lending institutions has presented President Fernando de la Rúa with one of his first big challenges.OIL-ARGENTINA: Prices – a One-Way Ladder Only Going Up
Domination of the local market by three international oil giants have made fuel prices in Argentina - which exports significant quantities of petroleum - among the highest in the world.ENVIRONMENT/TRADE: No Simple Answer in Debate on Transgenic Products
The unknown impact of biotechnology on agriculture has highlighted the difficulty of choosing sides in the debate currently raging among the world's governments, farmers, industrialists, scientists, environmentalists and consumers.RIGHTS: Police Abuse Widespread in Argentina, Say Rights Groups
The police shooting of an Olympic medal-winner in a bank where he was cashing a State scholarship has once again put the question of police brutality into the national spotlight in Argentina./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/PHOTOGRAPHY-LATAM: Young Artists ‘Click’ for Peace
Adolescents from the Southern Cone of the Americas will be the stars of an artistic endeavour to be put on display this year in Madrid and Paris. For the project they must arm themselves with a camera - and something more.TRADE-ARGENTINA/US: New Worries Over Patent Law
US Secretary of Commerce William Daley's visit to Argentina this week will tackle a central point on the bilateral agenda: the question of a patent law, nearly the only prickly issue in relations between the two countries, but one that has dragged on for decades.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: First Signs of Restored Investor Confidence
In its first two months in office, the government of Fernando de la Rúa has already obtained a show of restored foreign investor confidence in Argentina.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Invisible Work of Women Counts Too
A huge number of women in Argentina work nearly eight hours a day, seven days a week, without receiving any wages at all - the so-called homemakers, who keep the home and their family's clothes clean, cook and raise the children, and care for the elderly and the sick.ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Gov’t Cuts Spending, But It Is Not Enough
Economic austerity within the Argentine government is evident down to the smallest details, but could backfire as a political gesture if officials do not take action to stop businesses from relocating to Brazil, and taking thousands of jobs with them.DEVELOPMENT-ARGENTINA: Bank for the Poor Opens New Branch
A bank with operations in more than 60 countries, with some 1,100 branches and more than 2.5 million clients has arrived in Argentina. Its profile is far from conventional as it grants loans to the very poor, and the vast majority of its customers are women.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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