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Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday. "We are extremely concerned at the...
Ending the trilogy of having a peek at the three leading economies of Latin America, it is finally the turn of Argentina, arguably the most controversial one of all. The figures for September, excluding interest, showed the...
Argentina has faced a lot of adversity in the last decade, not the least of which was the Kirchner Administration’s (and the legislature’s) recent attack on free speech and the press, as reported in the Wall Street Journal. It...
Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The last military president in Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship went on trial on Monday in a makeshift courtroom in a sports arena on charges of kidnapping, torture and murder of 56 people...
The opening minutes of the soccer game brought a quick goal, and Rubén Bres and the 15 guests who had joined him around his battered TV erupted in cheers. But they were happy not just for their team. They were happy they could...
President Cristina Fernandez decreed Thursday that Argentina will provide direct cash subsidies of about $47 a month per child to families whose parents are unemployed or work informally. Her surprise announcement in a...
The Argentine Economic Crisis In 2002, Argentina defaulted on foreign debt, triggering the "Argentine Crisis." The Argentine economic freefall of 1999 to 2002 was marked by rampant inflation, peso devaluation, the collapse of...
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Argentina's government sent a bill to Congress on Monday seeking a green light for its plan to mop up some $20 billion in defaulted bonds, paving the way for a new debt issue to ease tight...
Argentina's newest power-couple, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and former president Nestor Kirchner, have given their critics more fodder by signing on to a media law that may restrict freedom of expression.
Argentina plans to launch a new debt swap, which it hopes will end a long-running saga that started from a massive default eight years ago. Latin America's third-largest economy is trying to rebuild its reputation with...
