June 18, 2008
Associated Press
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - President Cristina Fernandez told thousands of supporters Wednesday that a three-month strike against grain export-tax hikes was undemocratic and demanded that farmers lift road blockades that have caused food shortages across Argentina.
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March 26, 2008
BBC News
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| | Argentine farm taxes row deepens
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Farmers in Argentina have pledged to continue a nationwide protest after the government refused to back down on tax rises on agricultural exports. |
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October 30, 2007
New York Times
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| | Argentina’s First Lady Elected President
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BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 29 — Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the wife of Argentina’s president, Néstor Kirchner, has become the first woman to be elected president in the country’s history, according to the latest official results published today. |
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October 09, 2007
Upside Down World
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| | Argentina: The Rights of Native People Living in Nature Reserves
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(IPS) - Far from being uninhabited places where nature holds sway, the vast majority of Latin America’s protected areas are places where people live, so a balance has to be found between conservation goals and the need to reduce poverty. |
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October 03, 2007
BBC World News
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| | Argentina hands on Dirty War site
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The navy in Argentina has formally handed possession to human rights groups of one of the most notorious buildings used during military rule. |
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July 25, 2006
(IPS)
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| | Industrial Design + Garbage = Jobs
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With the support of three industrial designers and an architect, a group of informal garbage collectors in the Argentine capital has come together in a project to design and produce furniture and other objects out of waste materials. |
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July 17, 2006
The Nation
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| | The US Military Descends on Paraguay
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While hitchhiking across Paraguay a few years ago, I met welcoming farmers who let me camp in their backyards. I eventually arrived in Ciudad del Este, known for its black markets and loose borders. Now the city and farmers I met are caught in the crossfire of the US military's "war on terror." |
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April 20, 2006
New York Times
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| | Latin America's Populist Shift
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From Venezuela to Argentina, many of the traditional parties that built dynasties through patronage and hard-knuckle politics — but also offered stability, a clear ideology and experienced functionaries ready to govern — are disintegrating. Disillusioned by corruption and a failure to deliver prosperity, voters are increasingly captivated by new, mostly leftist movements promising to redistribute wealth, punishing traditional parties and turning political systems on their heads.
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March 21, 2006
ZNet
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Activists met in Uruguay for the fourth Latin American Conference of Popular Autonomous Organizations in February. Over 300 activist delegates from Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay organized this year's annual event as a space to strategize autonomous organizing and coordinate direct actions. This year's conference, held February 24-26, focused on building popular power in Latin America among organizations autonomous from the state, political parties and NGO's. |
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January 04, 2006
Miami Herald
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| | All $9.5B of IMF debt paid off
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Some Argentines celebrate and other Argentines carp as the government prepays its nearly $10 billion loan to the IMF. |
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December 08, 2005
The Nation
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| | Bitter Memories of a 'Dirty War'
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"We're here because we want to stop torture everywhere," she says. "It's incredible, but how is it possible that throughout all of Latin America it's the same torture and it's the same in Iraq? It's because the School of the Americas is still here and they haven't changed the manual. They haven't changed their policy." |
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November 23, 2005
Common Dreams
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| | Summit of the Americas, Argentina: Tomb of the FTAA
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“In the future, we will speak of US-Latin American relations in terms of the era before Mar del Plata, and the era after it,” remarked President Hugo Chávez today on his weekly televised talk show, Aló Presidente. |
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November 02, 2005
New York Times
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| | Bush Faces Tough Time in South America
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If George W. Bush is expecting some respite from his troubles at home during a four-day visit to Argentina and Brazil that begins Thursday, he is in for a very rude awakening. |
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November 01, 2005
Financial Times
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Anti-US protesters are planning a mass demonstration against President George W. Bush’s visit to Argentina this week for the Summit of the Americas in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata. |
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October 29, 2005
ALAI
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| | Listen to the clamour of your people
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The emerging history of our peoples is like underground rivers which are joined by others and at a certain moment converge on the main stream and emerge at the surface. They change course, transforming reality and life. |
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October 04, 2005
Hemispheric Coalition Against the FTAA
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| | III Summit of the Peoples of America – Hemispheric invitation
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2005 Call to attend the III Peoples’ Summit and mass mobilizations, November 1st to 5th, Mar del Plata, Argentina |
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August 15, 2005
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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| | The FTAA: A Recipe for Economic Disaster?
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The pending - but currently floundering - Free Trade Area of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) was launched at the Miami Summit of the Americas in 1994 as a U.S.-led initiative to expand the North American Free Trade Area Agreement (NAFTA). It was designed to eliminate trade barriers among all nations in the Western Hemisphere, except Cuba. |
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August 09, 2005
Indian Country
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| | Indigenous peoples build their own strategy at the fourth Summit of the Americas
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Preparations for the fourth Summit of the Americas, where the heads of all states in the Americas except Cuba will meet, are underway. It will take place Nov. 4 - 5 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. |
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August 04, 2005
Global Exchange
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| | Next Stop Post-CAFTA: Summit of the Americas
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That's why our President will receive a tepid welcome when he travels to Mar del Plata, a beach resort on the coast of Argentina, for the Summit of the Americas this November 4th - 5th. |
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July 03, 2005
Z Magazine
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| | BAUEN Hotel: Struggle, culture and work
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"I came back to BAUEN in a different way, working as part of cooperative under worker self-management/organization. This isn't easy for workers because we have been oppressed and exploited for centuries," said Marcelo, current president of BAUEN cooperative, an impressive 20-story hotel in downtown Buenos Aires. |
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June 21, 2005
Financial Times
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| | Argentina moves closer to negotiations with IMF
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Argentina has moved a step closer to starting negotiations with the International Monetary Fund over a new funding programme after the IMF's board approved its annual review of the country's economy. |
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June 20, 2005
Financial Times
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| | Boost for Argentine torture victims
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Every week for more than two decades a group of women with white scarves tied tight around their heads has met in the main square in Buenos Aires to protest over the forced disappearance of their children and the atrocities committed during Argentina's bloody military dictatorship. |
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June 15, 2005
SF Chronicle
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| | Argentine high court tosses amnesty laws
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Buenos Aires -- Argentina's Supreme Court overturned two amnesty laws
Tuesday that prevented the prosecution of hundreds of military officers,
soldiers and police linked to this country's Dirty War, in which tens of thousands of people were slain. |
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June 03, 2005
La Prensa de Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo
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| | Las Madres en Cuba. Participan del Encuentro Internacional contra el terrorismo, por la verdad y la justicia.
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En estos días cinco Madres se encuentran en Cuba, invitadas por el Encuentro Internacional contra el Terrorismo, por la verdad y la justicia. En una entrevista exclusiva con Mauricio Polchi, del programa radial Ni un Paso Atrás (jueves de 21 a 22 horas en FM La Tribu, 88.7) Hebe de Bonafini cuenta cómo viven este viaje y de qué se trata el encuentro antiterrorista. |
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June 01, 2005
Resource Center of the Americas
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| | Workers Put Bankrupt Factories Back in Business
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Even today, memories of the death spiral of this steel pipe plant during Argentina's 2001 financial collapse are almost as vivid to employees as its surprising rebirth as a worker-run cooperative. |
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June 01, 2005
Resource Center of the Americas
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| | New York court lifts Argentine bond freeze
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A New York appeals court lifted a freeze on $7bn of Argentine defaulted bonds, removing what Buenos Aires had claimed was an obstacle to completing its record $100bn debt-restructuring. |
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May 17, 2005
Argentina Travelers
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| | Zanon editó una antología de Gelman en cerámicos
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Los obreros de la Cerámica Zanon editaron una antología del poeta argentino Juan Gelman en cerámicos como primer título de una colección de libros-murales denominada "un metro cuadrado". |
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April 13, 2005
Los Angeles Times
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| | Kirchner Takes On the World
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The president is playing tough with the foreign financial community. Is it a turning point for developing nations, or a recipe for disaster? |
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March 17, 2005
Tierramérica/IPS
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| | More Soy, Less Forest - and No Water
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In the Argentine province of Córdoba, the prosperity of the countryside stands in stark contrast to an increasingly bleak outlook for the environment. |
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March 14, 2005
BolPress
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| | Multinacionales obtienen en América Latina más que el PIB de muchos países
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En 2003, las ventas de las 50 mayores empresas extranjeras sumaron más de 222 mil millones de dólares |
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