Argentina to further limit access to dollars-source

Reuters - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

BUENOS AIRES | Thu May 23, 2013 9:16am EDT BUENOS AIRES May 23 (Reuters) - Argentines will face a higher barrier to buying dollars under a new government policy limiting the amount of greenbacks they can withdraw using credit cards overseas, a government source with knowledge of the policy told Reuters on Thursday. Double-digit inflation and lack of confidence in the government's ...

Argentina Repsol struggle to bridge gap over YPF compensation

West Australian - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

, there seems little prospect of a quick deal on compensation despite signs that both sides would rather avoid a costly, drawn-out legal battle.The Latin American country's lack of funds and its limits on the control private firms have over their investments - which could deter Repsol from accepting other assets in any settlement - pose major obstacles to a deal, according to ...

UAE President and Vice President Congratulate Argentina and Eritrea on National Day

WAM - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

May 23, 2013 - 02:22 - WAM ABU DHABI, May 23th, 2013 (WAM)-- Congratulatory cables were sent today by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and to the President of Eritrea, Isaias Afewerki, on the occasion of their respective countries' National ...

Music Review Pablo Ziegler Metropole Orkest - Amsterdam Meets New Tango

General Sources - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Gustavo Conde 's liner notes explain, is "a key exponent of contemporary Buenos Aires urban music, centered on pure tango" seasoned with "aspects of jazz improvisation." This is the new tango, a genre pioneered ...

Argentina’s ex-dictator Videla dead at 87

wsws.org - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

General Jorge Rafael Videla, who headed the bloody military junta that seized power in Argentina in 1976, died last Friday in a Marcos Paz prison cell. The coup that toppled the government of President Isabel Peron unleashed both economic devastation as well as mass repression against the working class for seven years (the "dirty war") until it fell following the defeat of ...

World Briefing | The Americas Argentina Increases of Cash Handouts to Poor

New York Times - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Argentina 's president has announced increases of as much as 35 percent in cash handouts to the poor, students, pregnant women and retirees. ...

Argentine ports strike stalls oilseed and grains exports at peak harvest time

Merco Press - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Argentine longshoremen on strike at the peak of summer harvests exports have scores of grains ships delayed in and around due to a three-day-old conflict that threatens to bog down shipments at a time of heightened world demand for South American soy and corn, according to industry ...

Santa Fe Win 3-1 Unfazed by High Altitude in Cusco

New York Times - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

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Argentina calling Chinese firms

China Daily - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

China, Argentina vow to enhance ties " (China Daily, May 11) Argentina can substantially increase the output of its agricultural products such as soybeans, corn, wheat and other food grains. Besides, it is already a major producer of beef and dairy products. Chinese companies should, therefore, think of starting large-scale joint ventures to produce non-genetically modified soybeans, ...

Argentina Judicial Reform A Farewell to thee Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers.

Merco Press - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

By Rodolfo Arrate (*) - The Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges famously declared: "Democracy is an abuse of statistics". Observing the evolution of the political regime in Argentina nowadays, the poet’s sentence may well have turned into a ...

Argentine leader raises cash handouts 35 percent

Miami Herald - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Higher prices for its multiple sclerosis drug Rebif helped German pharmaceutical and high-tech materials company Merck KGaA post a 54 percent rise in first-quarter ...

Why you won’t be eating an Argentinian steak anytime soon

General Sources - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

When global demand for Argentina's beef drove exports up in the early 2000s, farmer's didn't complain--they were turning a profit shipping out cattle. But locals did. The global demand drove up the price of beef domestically as well. Coupled with the country's 2001 default and subsequent inflationary problems, steak got really expensive. It all culminated in 2005, when ...

Argentinas Qom Indians ask President Fernandez for help getting ancestral lands returned

Canada.com - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral land. Justices met with Qom leader Felix Diaz and other tribal members but the governor of Formosa province, Gildo Insfran, was a no-show at the conciliation hearing, sending lower-level functionaries instead. The Qom refuse to move from land around the ...

Argentine Indians ask president for their lands

San Diego Union-Tribune - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -; Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral ...

UPDATE 2-Strike stalls scores of grains ships in Argentina

Reuters - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Wed May 22, 2013 5:23pm EDT * U.S. grain stocks low this year after drought * World turns toward South America for soy, corn * High Argentine inflation fuels tough wage demands (Recasts with updated figures, new sourcing, adds context) By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES, May 22 (Reuters) - Scores of grains ships were delayed in and around Argentina on Wednesday due to a three-day-old strike by ...

Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentinian torture cases

The China Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina--Three former Ford Motor Co. executives were charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup. All three men are now in their ...

Argentine dictator Videlas burial protested

San Diego Union-Tribune - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

FILE - In this March 24, 1977 file photo, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla is seen commemorating the first anniversary of the military coup in Asuncion, Argentina. The former Argentine dictator died of natural causes Friday, May 17, 2013, while serving life sentences at the Marcos Paz prison for crimes against humanity. Videla took power in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of ...

Cristina Fernandez We are Building an Argentina of Rights

Prensa Latina - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Buenos Aires, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Argentina is building a country today where human, social and economic rights go hand in hand, assured President Cristina Fernandez at the inauguration of the restored Library at the National College of La Plata University. The facility is named Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and is the third and final stage of the Comprehensive Recovery Plan for the National ...

An Argentine Scandal The Money Laundering Investigation

Argentina Independent - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Nstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner (photo: Wikimedia commons) What started as a power struggle between the two sides has developed into a political war, and the latest report broadcast by one of Clarn’s TV channels implicating President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner and her late husband Nstor Kirchner in a money laundering scheme, promises to antagonise the situation ...