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HEALTH-ARGENTINA: The Maradona Case and Drug Abuse
The cocaine overdose that landed Argentina's football star Diego Maradona in the hospital in serious condition has allowed doctors to show the public the most harmful and least known effects of drug abuse.TRADE-LATAM: Mercosur – Still a Long Way to Go
The integration of South America's leading free trade bloc, the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), has turned out to be a much more complex process than negotiators envisioned in the mid-1990s, when things were moving full steam ahead.AGRICULTURE-ARGENTINA: Rural Tourism Saving Country Estates
Thousands of landowners in Argentina could not have imagined until a few years ago that tourism would pull them out of one of the worst crises to hit farms in the history of this Southern Cone country, whose economy is largely dependent on agriculture.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Six Officers Arrested for Kidnapping of Minors
Argentine courts are questioning six non-commissioned Navy officers arrested on charges of kidnapping at least 12 children of political prisoners during the 1976-83 dictatorship.SPORTS-ARGENTINA: Maradona to Undergo Drug Treatment
Retired Argentine football legend Diego Maradona continued to recover Thursday in a Uruguayan hospital, while the justice system investigated the origin of the cocaine that caused his bout with high blood pressure Tuesday, and his friends and family decided whether to commit him to a treatment centre.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Gov’t to Leave Human Rights Cases to Courts
Argentina's new government has distanced itself from its predecessor with its decision to refer pending human rights cases to the courts.POLITICS-LATAM: Voters Opt for Change – But Not Too Much
The message sent by voters in Latin America this year was an almost unanimous demand for efforts against corruption and policies against unemployment, poverty and crime - basically, greater attention to the concrete problems of the people.EDUCATION-ARGENTINA: Less and Less a Means of Social Ascent
Public education in Argentina has traditionally provided youngsters from poor families the opportunity to obtain a university degree. But over the past decade, it has become less and less a means of social ascent.AGRICULTURE: Argentina’s Farmers Want Subsidies Too
Farmers in Argentina are asking the new government of President Fernando de la Rúa for subsidies to enable them to weather the crisis triggered by the slump in commodity prices and compete with heavily subsidised exports from industrialised countries.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: The Challenge of Strengthening Democracy
Nearly 70 percent of those interviewed by a recent Gallup International poll in Argentina believe that 16 years after the end of the 1976-83 dictatorship, the country is still not governed according to the people's will.ECONOMY-LATAM: Market Triumphant at End of Century
In the mid-1980s, Latin America gave up its dream of promoting import substitution and entered a liberalisation process that, at the end of the century, has brought a severe trade imbalance, with serious social and economic consequences.ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Wildlife Tracked Via Satellite
Five 'yaguareté' (jaguars) - the largest South American feline, which inhabit Argentina's northwest - are to be fitted with 3,000-dollar collars by people fighting for the big cats' survival.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: New President Faces First General Strike
Argentina's president Fernando de la Rúa took office Dec 10, and Monday, Dec 20, faced his first general strike, called by government employees to protest the violent repression of a demonstration Friday in a northeastern province, where serious social, economic and political crises have led to federal intervention.OUTLOOK 2000/LATIN AMERICA: NGOs Gain More Influernce
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Latin America see their star on the rise in the 21st century, caused by a shrinking of state powers coupled with the discrediting of political parties and labour unions.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: Five Killed in Provincial Protests
The capital of Argentina's Corrientes province was a powder keg Friday after five people were killed when security forces moved in against demonstrators - primarily government employees - who are demanding payment for months of back-wages.POLICIES-ARGENTINA: Foreign Policy Unchanged
Argentina's close relations with the United States, established by former president Carlos Saul Menem, will remain largely unchanged under his successor, Fernando de la Rua, according to political sources.TRADE: Agricultural Nations Pin Hopes on China
China's pending admission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has created high expectations among agricultural countries, tantalised by the huge Chinese market. They wait now with even greater impatience since the WTO's Third Ministerial Conference ended in failure earlier this month.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Park to Honour Thousands of ‘Disappeared’
A park in Argentina's capital will honour the memory of the victims of the country's last military dictatorship (1976-1983), with sculptures chosen by a jury of human rights activists, artists, and art critics.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Number of Arrested Military Officers Climbs
The arrest of former general Guillermo Suárez Mason brings the total to nine military leaders who face trial for illegally appropriating the children of prisoners during Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship.POLITICS-ARGENTINA: New President Faces Soaring Poverty, Debt
Fernando de la Rúa was inaugurated as Argentina's new president Friday, and must now confront the challenges of an enormous fiscal deficit, growing poverty and high unemployment, which jumped 157 percent in the 10 years his predecessor, Carlos Menem, led the nation.POLITICS-PARAGUAY: Military Sent to Barracks, General to Return
Paraguay's armed forces were confined to barracks Thursday after reports circulated that former general Lino Oviedo, enemy number one of the Luis González Macchi government, had abandoned political asylum in Argentina to return home.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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