RSSAlleged wiretapping hearings lead by a politician, the shutdown of an Internet provider and the investigation of a newsprint factory have all occurred in Argentina over the last few days. They all connect in one clear way: they signify the climax of Cristina Kirchner’s presidency; they represent [...]
Archive for the Category: "Argentina"
August 9th, 2010 - 7:57 am § in Argentina, Front Page
Argentina’s Embedded Migrants
News coverage of Latin American immigration patterns normally focuses on the movement of migrants from Latin America to the United States. This interpretation overlooks the fact that there are major immigrant communities in many Latin American cities, which continue to receive heavy flows of new s[...]
July 29th, 2010 - 8:00 am § in Argentina, Front Page
The Power of Soy: President Cristina Kirchner strengthens commercial relations between Argentina and China
• Argentine president Cristina Fernández recently travelled to China to attempt to solve the soy oil controversy between the two countries. For weeks, China has been blocking the commodity from entering the country in retaliation against anti-dumping measures that Argentina has applied against C[...]
July 21st, 2010 - 1:09 pm § in Argentina, Front Page
Argentine Legislators Disregard the Catholic Church and Take a Stand for Human Rights
On July 15th, Argentine legislators made history by passing a measure that allows homosexual couples to marry as well as adopt children, and reverberations can be felt throughout the airwaves a week later. Argentina is the first country in Latin America and the second in the Western hemisphere to le[...]
June 29th, 2010 - 12:47 pm § in Argentina, Front Page
Héctor Timerman Appointed to be Argentina’s Foreign Minister upon Jorge Taiana Stepping Down from Office
● Timerman’s portfolio to be strengthened by his special ties to Kirchners. ● Timerman brings rare gifts of strength of character and intellectual preeminence to his new job. Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana resigned from his position several days ago after allegedly having a dispute [...]
June 11th, 2010 - 9:49 am § in Argentina, Front Page
Two hundred years of Argentina, seven years of Kirchnerism
Since its independence from Spain, Argentina has experienced two British invasions, a series of illegitimate governments, the Peronist movement, a dictatorship that cost 30,000 lives, the Falklands War and a neo-liberal economy during the 1990s followed by a major economic default. Today, as Argenti[...]
Argentina’s Bicentennial: Another Take
• The indigenous have little to celebrate “Los pueblos originarios están acá; están presente,” an indigenous woman shouted to the camera of Argentina’s Canal 7 news program on May 18th. She was surrounded by fellow protestors from across Argentina. In a period of eight days this group ha[...]
The Fabulous Life of the Ravenous Vultures
• How perverted financial companies mock global development policy. • Pennies on the dollar vulture funds are the bottom feeders of global finance Since the mid-90s, the so-called vulture funds have been suing poor countries so that they would fully pay back their debts which they had purchased [...]
March 5th, 2010 - 3:39 pm § in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Front Page, Guatemala, Honduras, OAS
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Does Latin America
• Argentina squeezed in at the last minute • Why Guatemala? • Brazil phase is rough • Secretary of State Clinton and her Assistant Secretary, on this try, do not seem to perceive that it is a changed world in terms of inter-American relations and that traditional concepts of pan-Americanism [...]
February 3rd, 2010 - 11:17 am § in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Front Page, Paraguay, Reports, Venezuela
FARQaeda* (FARC + Al Qaeda): A Real Threat or a Matter of Circumstantial Evidence?
Over the past several months, a number of reports have circulated that address the subject of drug trafficking ties between South American narcotics trafficking interests and terrorist organizations, principally Al Qaeda and its smaller affiliates now known to be based in Northern Africa. These ass[...]