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Protests Erupt in Argentina Over Food Deprivation
Topic Started: Jul 21 2017, 06:24 AM (2,088 Views)
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Jul 23 2017, 06:03 AM
Mr. Robert Stout: Argentina has cats. Macri the Cat. :cool:
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City gov’t: 23 percent rise in number of homeless
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Officials say amount of ‘registered’ people living on the streets has risen to just over 1,000, but NGOs estimate true figure is at least four times that
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Argentina suspends capital gains tax for foreigners ahead of reforms
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina on Thursday suspended a tax on foreigners' capital gains, just two days after it had been announced, after market participants complained the surprise move was inconsistent with President Mauricio Macri's pro-market agenda.


World Bank orders Argentina to pay $320 million over seized airline: newspaper
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The World Bank's arbitration tribunal has ordered Argentina to pay $320 million plus interest and legal fees to Spanish travel group Marsans for expropriating its airline Aerolineas Argentinas SA AERA.UL in 2008, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.
Read this December 18, 2013 article, too: Former Aerolíneas Argentinas heads sentenced in fraud case.

"A choice between the World Bank and the Argentine homeless?"
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"It's the easiest choice of my life, ha ha ha ha!"
The owner of Marsans in Spain is in jail for massive fraud! - H
America is far ahead of Argentina in per capita homeless...Programs to help the homeless drastically increases the number of homeless....Build it and they will come............ :oyvey
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The people in Argentina don't realize how good they have it, just at the people living in the socialist paradise of Venezuela! It's good to see Venezuela finally defaulted on it's debt! Flamingo soup will soon be associated with the 'good old days.'
Edited by PATruth, Dec 23 2017, 04:04 PM.
"No. No he won't. We'll stop it."
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Macho: ¡es un cuento de Gallegos! :biggrin:
Mr. Robert Stout: with a 28.75% interest rate, there is not building. Just speculation.
PAT: yes, yes, i know...
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Repression in Argentina 'Worst Since 1983': New Report
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"For the first time we exceeded the one dead per day mark related to trigger-happy or torture incidents," the report warns.
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Police officers take aim at demonstrators during pension reform protests in Argentina on December 18. | Photo: Reuters

Argentine Government Takes Retirement Money to Finance Itself
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The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) reported that Argentina's external debt amounted to 216,351 million dollars after the end of the third quarter of the year.
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Brazil's President Michel Temer (L) talks with his Argentinian counterpart Mauricio Macri before they pose for a family photo at Mercosur trade bloc annual summit in Brasilia, Brazil December 21, 2017. | Photo: Reuters

Argentina Senate Approves Macri's Corporations Friendly Tax Plan, Budget
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Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner voted against Macri's tax plan, which was approved after ten hours of deliberation, with 54 voting in favor, 14 against, and one abstention.
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Macri's tax plan was approved after ten hours of deliberation, with 54 voting in favor, 14 against, and one abstention. | Photo: Pagina 12

^^^Basically, it's tax cuts for the richs. Read here, too.

Cristina Kirchner Returns to the Senate: ‘I’m going to Debate Everything’
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The former President argued with Vice-President Michetti, defended her political stand and launched attacks in her return to the floor.
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Cristina Kirchner returns to the Senate floor ten years later. (Photo via Telam)
Read here and here, too.

Argentina: Farmers give 20 tonnes of vegetables to retirees following pension reform

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Argentina: Photo journalists put police brutality under the lens with parliament protest
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Argentine Photographers Protest Police Repression
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IN PICTURES: On Wednesday photographers gathered in front of Congress to protest repression and to demand the right work freely.
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At least 30 journalists were injured during protests against pension reforms.
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Argentina eases inflation target, stoking rate cut expectations
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina changed its inflation target for 2018 to 15 percent, up from the central bank’s previous goal of 8-12 percent, Treasury Minister Nicolas Dujovne said on Thursday, raising expectations for interest rate cuts.

The government will postpone by one year its goal of lowering inflation to 5 percent, pushing it back to 2020, Dujovne said. The 2019 target will be 10 percent. Consumer prices rose 21 percent in the first 11 months of 2017, above the central bank target for 12-17 percent inflation for the year.


US Dollar Ends 2017 On a High Against Argentine Peso
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The Dollar reached a new high and the Argentine Market remains expectant to the Central Bank's actions to see what 2018 will bring.
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Brace Yourselves: Public Transport Fares Are Going Up in February
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Transport Minister Guillermo Dietrich will announce revised prices for buses and trains next week.
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Catching the colectivo is going to cost more starting Februray 1st, 2018. (Noticias Argentinas / Damian Dopacio)

Fernández: Argentina Needs A President That Works For The People
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"They have not solved one problem – they have only deepened all of them to intolerable limits," she said of the Macri administration.
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Former Argentine President and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner smiles during a news conference at the Congress in Buenos Aires, Dec. 7, 2017. | Photo: Reuters

IMF to Argentina: Implement More Austerity, Privatization
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The report pushes for a “decrease in government spending” and an increase in privatization and consumer spending to “increase productivity."
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Argentina's senators debate a new tax law in the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina December 27, 2017. | Photo: Reuters
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Protesters will be taxed at twice the normal rate to recover the costs of crowd control....Why should all Argentinians pay for protester's entertainment ???............ ;)
Edited by Robert Stout, Jan 1 2018, 12:05 AM.
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Mr. Robert Stout: there was buzzing about fining the protesters... :cool:
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Growth for inflation, Macri’s NYE present
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Macri’s political message was heard loud and clear. Sturzenegger is fourth in line in making economic policy now, below Marcos Peña, Dujovne, and Caputo. The Central Bank’s sacrosanct independence, recovered by Sturzenegger at Macri’s behest, has been put in question, severely weakening the strength of monetary communication.
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At the end of the day, economic growth is the only solution for Macri, and he has no Plan B. Foto:Pablo Temes - CEDOC.

2018 to Kick Off With a Series of Fare Increases
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From gasoline to subways and from electricity to gas, price increases are expected during the first months of 2018.
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Fares for public transportation are expected to go up during the first months of 2018. (Photo via En El Subte)
Read here, too.

Macri: ‘We want to ease off debt financing’
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After a shaky few days, the national government is expressing optimism about the country’s economic future.
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Holidaying in Patagonia, President Mauricio Macri took time off to meet with wind farm workers in Chubut province on January 2, 2018. Foto:Screenshot

^^^ But just after stating that:

UPDATE 1-Argentina sells $9 bln in oversubscribed dollar bonds
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BUENOS AIRES, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Argentina sold $9 billion in a three-part dollar bond issuance that was oversubscribed on Thursday, covering nearly a third of its expected financing needs for 2018 early in the year.
Macri-nomics, rule #1: debt, debt and more debt.
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Workers are more eager to work when they have a lean and hungry look.......... :hooray:
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Like the Chinese workers? :cool:

How China made Mauricio Macri a deal he couldn’t refuse
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The president campaigned on a promise to end the country’s economic dependence on Beijing, after ties grew closer under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, but he found things weren’t quite that easy
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President Mauricio Macri meets China’s President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a global summit in Washington in 2016.

Argentina approves construction of Chinese-financed dams in Patagonia
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BUENOS AIRES, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Argentina’s government approved the construction of two hydroelectric dams in the southern Patagonia region after holding public hearings as required by the Supreme Court, according to a notice in the Official Gazette on Monday.
Read here, too.

Scorned by Donald Trump, Oligarch-President Mauricio Macri begs for love to the Great Vlad, too:

Macri Kisses Up to Putin During Moscow Visit
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Macri showered his Russian counterpart with praise for his generous support in light if the missing submarine.
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Macri left off criticizing Venezuela after realizing his comments fell on deaf ears to the nation’s ally. | Photo: Reuters
Read here, here and here, too.
Edited by Che On The Rocks, Jan 24 2018, 07:03 AM.
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It’s Official: Annual Inflation in Argentina Reached 24.8% in 2017
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The final 2017 number was pushed higher by 3.1 percent inflation in December.
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Argentina Had the Second Highest Annual Inflation Rate in Latin America in 2017
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Unsurprisingly, Venezuela was first.
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Yes, Gas Prices Are Going Up Too
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Cabinet Chief Marcos Peña says price variations is something "we're going to have to live with".
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Increases in gasoline prices are kicking into effect. (Photo via Noticias Argentinas / Hugo Villalobos)

Dollar lurches toward 20 pesos after Central Bank applies rate cut
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The Central Bank wants to see rates at between 24 and 25 percent. However, the government remains cautious about the impact of a rising dollar on prices.
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Central Bank chief Federico Sturzenegger. Foto:Cedoc/Perfil

Record budget, trade deficits for 2017 in Argentina
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Data released this week by Argentina's Statistics Institute (INDEC) yielded record budget and trade deficits for the country in 2017.

The nation's merchandise trade deficit reached $8.5 billion - a sharp reversal from the $2 billion surplus registered in 2016. Budget deficits, in turn, rose by 56% to a record 569 billion pesos ($34.4 billion, at the average 2017 exchange rate).
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About all Argentina has to offer is tango dancing lessons to tourists.............. :wah:
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About all Argentina has to offer is tango dancing lessons to tourists.............. :wah:
And billionaires. Lots of billionaires. :cool:

Argentina’s richest 10% control more wealth than 60% of the country
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The concentration of wealth is very high in Argentina. But there’s been little development of the idea of social responsibility for business leaders.
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Roughly a third of Argentina’s population fall below the poverty line. Foto:AFP.
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Argentina’s New Austerity
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Recent pension cuts backed by Argentine President Mauricio Macri have elicited vigorous popular protest.
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Armed police took the streets of Buenos Aires on December 18, 2017 in response to protests against recently announced pension cuts. (Photo by Enfoque Rojo)

Government Postpones Debating Labor Law Reform
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With a lack of support from both Congress and the unions, the Macri administration postpones the debate of the labor law's reform.
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Simpler times. Labor Minister Jorge Triaca smiles at a meeting with union members regarding the debate of the labor laws. Now, that same bill has been postponed. (Photo via Telam/ Florencia Downes)
Read here and here, too.

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Argentina details measures to slash government red tape
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina’s government announced a series of measures on Wednesday to reduce bureaucratic tasks that business-friendly President Mauricio Macri thinks are holding back much-needed investment.
^^^ Trojan horse decree: it eliminates 19 laws and modify other 140! That is illegal and unconstitutional in Argentina. So:

Opposition rallying to reverse Macri's decree package
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Opposition lawmakers are engaged in cross-party talks to secure 129 votes in the Lower House and 36 in the Senate.
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Opposition lawmakers last came together in December 2017 to stymie the government's pension reform bill. They succeeded in the first session (pictured), but the bill passed three days later. Foto:Twitter

And so:
Macri hauls in Congressional leaders to strategise over 'megadecree'
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In a move not unusual for the Macri administration, the government could even overhaul its own decree package by submitting a number of bills to Congress.
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President Mauricio Macri attends the business forum of the eleventh Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Buenos Aires in December, 2017. Foto:AP-Natacha Pisarenko
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^^^ WHAT A MESS!

So, how to cover this disaster? What smokescreen to use?

This:

Argentine president bans family members in government
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Argentine President Mauricio Macri has announced government job cuts aimed at reducing the deficit and attacking a patronage system in place for decades.
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One in four positions appointed by ministers will also be cut and government employees will not receive pay rises this year.

The government expects to save $77m (£55m) a year with the cuts.
Nothing! Argentina, under the Macri Regime, borrows billions every week!
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Analysts say President Macri himself may also be trying to deflect criticism for putting his own allies and supporters in government roles after having for years accused former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's administration of corruption and cronyism.
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^^^ Ten members of the Macri Regime, and their relatives at public posts. I put only ten because it is the maximum number permitted in a post.
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^^^ WHAT A MESS!

So, how to cover this disaster? What smokescreen to use?

This:

Argentine president bans family members in government
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Argentine President Mauricio Macri has announced government job cuts aimed at reducing the deficit and attacking a patronage system in place for decades.
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One in four positions appointed by ministers will also be cut and government employees will not receive pay rises this year.

The government expects to save $77m (£55m) a year with the cuts.
Nothing! Argentina, under the Macri Regime, borrows billions every week!
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Analysts say President Macri himself may also be trying to deflect criticism for putting his own allies and supporters in government roles after having for years accused former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's administration of corruption and cronyism.
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^^^ Ten members of the Macri Regime, and their relatives at public posts. I put only ten because it is the maximum number permitted in a post.
I agree....!

Macri should fire all the people who are relatives in his administration. Go for it. No more corruption, no more political patronage. Any government should have an equal number of party loyalists, ....and opposition members. He is doing the right thing. What a guy that Macri is, .... :)


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Herr Professor Mozart: Macri got your wavelength. :biggrin:
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Union Bosses Issue Joint Statement Accusing Government of ‘Making the Poor Poorer’
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Toughening of stance comes as US$3.8 million in cash found in Balcedo safety deposit boxes in Uruguay.
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Union leaders today met in Mar del Plata and issued a strongly-worded press release against the government. (Photo via Télam / Alejandro Moritz)

Argentine Union Leader Targeted in Anonymous Email Threat
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According to Roberto Baradel, the threat he received read: "We are coming for you and the union. We hold the power in Argentina – the judges and the press."
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Roberto Baradel (third from right) with Suteba union leaders in Argentina, January 15, 2018. | Photo: @SUTEBAProvincia

Argentina's Macri downgrades labor reforms after union pressure
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina’s government is scaling back and delaying a planned labor reform after pressure from union leaders and a violent protest over changes to pension laws late last year.


Moyano: 'I'd rather go to jail or die than support labour reform'
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The union leader claims President Mauricio Macri's government is “extorting the people” by attacking the union movement.
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Union kingpin Hugo Moyano. Foto:NA: Damian Dopacio

Argentina truckers protest could paralyze grain exports
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BUENOS AIRES, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A protest by grain transporters in Argentina could leave exporters and crushers operating without soy, corn and wheat, an industry group said on Monday.
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The Cost of an Argentine Passport Nearly Doubles
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The passport will see an increase of 70 percent, rising from $550 pesos to $950.
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Argentina’s Poverty Line Rose More than Its Inflation Rate in 2017
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The figure means that the cost to stay above the poverty line rose two points more than the annual inflation rate.
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Buenos Aires' iconic Villa 31 slum (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

^^^ In short: the poor's inflation is bigger than the general inflation. Same with the old people's inflation.

Activists mobilize against Argentina's Macri for defunding HIV prevention, treatment programs
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Health and LGBT advocacy groups demonstrated in front of the Argentine Health Ministry in Buenos Aires yesterday in order to protest deep cutbacks enacted recently on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatments budgets.
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Demonstrators protest suspension of HIV medication programs. "Health is not a business deal."

Argentina ballet dancers protest by performing in the street
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Ballet dancers took to the streets of Argentina’s capital Thursday, blocking traffic but causing onlookers to break into cheers and applause as they performed pirouettes to “Swan Lake” in protest of government funding cuts.

About 80 dancers, choreographers, and other workers of the state-funded National Ballet of the Dance lost their jobs in December under government austerity measures.
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Ballet shoes hang from a rope as part of a protest against the recent decision to reduce funding to the state-run dance company, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. About 80 dancers, choreographers, and other workers of the National Ballet of the Dance lost their jobs in December as part of a series of austerity measures pushed by the government. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Trade imbalance casts shadow over warm relations with US
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As Trump administration celebrates one-year anniversary, a new period of relations between Argentina and the United States is beginning.
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President Mauricio Macri and US President Donald Trump. Foto:Cedoc

YPF Gas Prices Go Up Another 3.5%
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The rise in YPF's prices comes a mere three weeks after the previous increase.
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YPF oil prices reach a new high starting today.
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Poverty in Argentina is great wealth in Venezuela...Socialism is the answer........... :lol:
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after how many years of failed socialist economics will the people of South America realize that Socialism is not the answer. what is happening now under Macri in Argentina is what happened in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

It takes time to realign your economic policies from Socialist to Capitalist, Macri has 70 years of Military/socialist policy to reform... People like Che want everything overnight...

It will take time...
Trump needs to focus more so on the male vote. He should have nationalized the Boy Scouts when they decided to admit girls.

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Mr. Robert Stout: "Poverty in Venezuela is great wealth in Haiti...Capitalism is the answer." :cool:
Mr. V4R: This is similar to Russia in the 1990s, yes. And more similar to Argentina in the 1990s, yet. :cool:
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Nearly 120 Researchers Occupy Science and Technology Ministry
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They complained about the government's "lack of dialogue".
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The Right’s Assault on Reason in Argentina
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Brutal cuts in government funding for scientific and academic research are a devastating, though lesser known, part of the neoliberal agenda in Latin America.
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Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), with a protest banner covering the sign (@Stefania_ev/Twitter).

Argentine Students Protest Against Education Reform
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By Eugenia Rosales Matienzo, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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