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ARGENTINA-WOMEN: National Gathering Faces Hostile Reception
The women who will gather at the 12th National Women's Meeting in Argentina are facing a hostile reception in the fiercely Catholic and traditionalist northwestern province of San Juan, where participants have been dubbed "lesbians, transvestites and abortionists."ARGENTINA: The Reappearing Ghosts of the Disappeared
The transcription of an interrogation under torture, revealed on national television Monday, provided the Argentine Courts with hopes more such archives could help them pinpoint the fates of the disappeared of the dictatorship.ARGENTINA-FINANCE: Foreign Banks on Shopping Spree
With their growth potential of 20 percent per year, private banks in Argentina have emerged as a tempting investment for foreign banks./IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ ARGENTINA: Adjustments Run ino Human Barriers
President Carlos Menem insists that the protests racking Argentina will not force changes in his government's economic policy. But the structural adjustments are increasingly running up against human barriers, as demonstrators raise roadblocks around the country.ARGENTINA: Homosexuals Winning Battles, but not Yet the War
Gay men and lesbians in Argentina now have the legal right to extend their medical coverage to their partners, who are also eligible for widow or widowers pensions.ARGENTINA-LABOUR: Adjustments Run into Human Barriers
President Carlos Menem insists that the protests racking Argentina will not force changes in his government's economic policy. But the structural adjustments are increasingly running up against human barriers, as demonstrators raise roadblocks around the country./IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN/ ARGENTINA: Dinosaurs of the Future
Argentina is home -- at least for now -- to 2,500 animal species scattered throughout the nation's land mass of 3.7 square kilometers and in the surrounding sea. Some 500 species, however, are threatnd with extinction -- including deer, jaguars and whales.ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Dinosaurs of the Future
Argentina is home - at least for now - to 2,500 animal species scattered throughout the nation's land mass of 3.7 square kilometers and in the surrounding sea. Some 500 species, however, are threatened with extinction - including deer, jaguars and whales.ARGENTINA-LABOUR: Protests, Roadblocks Continue to Spread
Argentina's soaring unemployment has hit towns in several outlying provinces particularly hard, and the protests racking the country have increasingly incorporated roadblocks to draw government attention to the plight of large sectors of the population.ARGENTINA: General Protest over Crisis in Education
Argentine university students took over two universities and demonstrated Wednesday opposite the vice- chancellors office, while a group of teachers entered their 43rd day of hunger strike - both protests calling for more funds.LATIN AMERICA: Legislators Listen to Lectures on Social Debt
Lawmakers from throughout Latin America recently gathered here to listen, rather than talk, to experts on children, poverty, education, gender and the foreign debt.MERCOSUR: Bloc Resists Push to Speed up Negotiations toward FTAA
When it comes to facing up to the flood of U.S. goods expected to accompany the birth of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the governments and business communities of the members of Mercosur are united more by fear than love, in the words of a late great Argentine writer.ARGENTINA-ECONOMY: Hidden Inflation Increases Poverty
In the 1980's, when hyperinflation spurred poverty and inequity throughout Argentina, falling living conditions led to violence, and the looting of supermarkets./IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ ARGENTINA: Adjustment Causes Second Provincial Crisis
The people of Tartagal, a town on the Argentie frontier with Bolivia revolted this week, just as an International Monetary Fud (IMF) mission arrived in the capital to discuss provincial adjustment with the government./IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ ARGENTINA: Adjustment Causes Second Provincial Crisis
The people of Tartagal, a town on the Argentie frontier with Bolivia revolted this week, just as an International Monetary Fud (IMF) mission arrived in the capital to discuss provincial adjustment with the government.ARGENTINA: Adjustment Causes Second Provincial Crisis
The people of Tartagal, a town on the Argentine frontier with Bolivia revolted this week, just as an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission arrived in the capital to discuss provincial adjustment with the government.ARGENTINA-WOMEN: Prestigious School Refuses to Go Coed
Students at one of Argentina's most prestigious high schools are refusing to open their classrooms to females, arguing that the educational level of the three-century- old institution would suffer.ARGENTINA-EDUCATION: Teachers on Hunger Strike for a Living Wage
Public school teachers have entered the second month of a hunger strike to back demands for a "living wage."ARGENTINA-ECONOMY: Debt Club Membership Brings Costly Stability
Argentina's current economic stability floats on a sea of internationally financed liquidity and financial analysts believe mounting external debt means storms ahead for this country.ARGENTINA-HUMAN RIGHTS: 20th Anniversary of Plaza de Mayo Mothers
Exactly 20 years ago, a small group of mothers of young Argentines "disappeared" by the military dictatorship gathered in the 'Plaza de Mayo', sowing the seed of an organisation that became a leading symbol of resistance to the 1976-83 regime.ARGENTINA: Cavallo Falls Victim to Menem’s Witch Hunt
Argentina's former Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo returned to the front pages Monday after a surprise court case against him, accused of defending the public interest above that of a private company.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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