Worldcrunch CLARIN (Argentina) TARTAGAL – The ambulance was traveling fast, its lights on and sirens blaring — an emergency, for sure, in this northern Argentine city. But Salta provincial police, here near the Bolivian border, knew better. They stopped the suspiciously speedy ambulance and discovered that the apparent emergency was actually an express delivery of […]
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Analysis: Argentina has a new system to restrict citizens’ ability to purchase dollars. Is this an attempt to stabilize the Argentinian pesos or crack down on tax evaders?
Analysis: Whether it is for a factory opening or a ceremony honoring her hero, “Evita,” Argentine leader Cristina Kirchner finds plenty of opportunities to speak. Many discourses, but not much dialogue.
LA RAZÓN (Argentina) BUENOS AIRES – An Argentine dog groomer has landed himself in a heap of trouble after accidentally killing one of his canine clients. The dog in question died on Oct. 2, 2010 due to a sedative overdose, La Razón reported. The groomer, identified as Mario Cabibbo, injected the drug prior to trimming […]
Europe’s economic woes are prompting the Formula One auto racing circuit to seek new markets, including in Latin America, whose export-driven economies are running on all cylinders. Argentina hopes to host a race in 2013, in the seaside resort city o
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Text Messaging Turns 20
EL CRONISTA (Argentina) BUENOS AIRES – This week marks the 20th anniversary of a technology that has changed the way the world communicates: text messaging. Also known as Short Message Service (SMS), texting is “simple, every day and cheap, and is now used by more than 4 billion people the world over,” El Cronista reports. […]
EL PAÍS (Spain) BUENOS AIRES — Just days after finalizing the hostile takeover of Spanish-owned oil and gas company YPF, the Argentine government got even more hostile, freezing imports of Spain’s signature delicacy: ham. The Cristina Kirchner administration agreed to the measure at the behest of the Argentine meat industry and farmers, who are looking […]
Editorial: President Cristina Kirchner received Congressional approval this week for the Argentine government’s announced takeover of YPF, an oil and gas company. The move will help pay for her government’s pricey social programs. But at what cos
Essay: Soccer violence is on the rise throughout Latin America. So far, however, leaders have largely ignored the problem. Why? The region’s 70s and 80-era dictatorships may be partly to blame.
At the World Economic Forum on Latin America in Mexico, AméricaEconomía tries to get a handle on Cristina Kirchner’s nationalization of gas and oil company YPF – and Spain’s fierce reaction. But getting an Argentine to speak frankly on the matter is no si
Thanks to recent changes from the Argentine Central Bank Charter, the Kirchner administration has access to lots more cash. How will the government spend it? An increasingly likely option is a public buyout of YPF, the affiliate of Spanish energy company
Multinationals like Canada’s Barrick Gold are making money hand over fist in mineral-rich South America. Proponents say the mines provide jobs and tax revenue. Many local communities, however, oppose the mega-projects on environmental grounds.
Op-Ed: In its renewed push for sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, Argentina is making some major waves three decades after its disastrous 1982 invasion of the British territory. But if it wants something, Buenos Aires must offer benefits — or be prep
Essay: Perhaps the closest historical comparison with recent worldwide social disaffection and civil unrest is in the lead-up to the mid-19th century revolutions that roiled the globe.
Authorities in Buenos Aires are recommending that Argentine firms stop buying British goods. That may be easier said than done. Though Argentina doesn’t buy much from the UK, the British products it does import are difficult to find elsewhere.
Argentina could soon jump on the shale gas bandwagon. The South American country has one of the world’s most significant shale gas reserves. And its government has finally moved to make production more cost-effective. Investors are starting to line up.
The Kirchners – first Néstor and then his wife, Cristina Fernández – have occupied Argentina’s Casa Rosada presidential palace since 2003. Could son Maximo, a rising political star, keep the family in power beyond 2016, when Cristina’s second term ends?
Essay: After Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, Hugo Chávez, who also suffers from cancer, aired the possibility of a covert U.S. conspiracy. There may be other slightly less sinister explanations.
Dulce de leche may not be the healthiest of snacks, but oh man is it tasty. In Argentina, the caramel-like spread is also big business thanks to growing consumption both at home and abroad.
Op-Ed: Examples abound of Latin American first ladies trying to succeed their husbands as president. That’s not a good thing. “Family presidencies” represent a step backward for a region whose executive branches already have too much power.
Petrobras and other Brazilian firms are using sports sponsorships to up their international profile. Brazil’s booming economy gives them extra leverage in places like Argentina and Chile, but it may also be pricing them out at home.
As evidenced by new car sales, consumers in Chile and Argentina and out-buying their counterparts in some much larger countries, including Brazil and China, members of the much talked about BRICS club.
Analysis: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is heavily favored to win a second term in this Sunday’s presidential election in Argentina. But even though she’ll have a mandate to govern from the left, the recently-widowed president could end up shifting to th
Bolivia may be South America’s poorest country, but it now boasts the region’s most global firm, according to AméricaEconomía’s annual “Multilatinas” list. Another surprise? Brazilian’s Petrobras struck oil last year, but fell in the ranking.
After Brazil successfully turned the city of Manaos into a tropical Silicon Valley, now Argentina is bringing high tech down to the far southern island of Tierra del Fuego, where Blackberry, HP and Motorola are opening operations. But is the industrial pu
New exclusive footage of a crash in Argentina where a train hit a bus before smashing head-on into another train. The number of dead has risen to 11, with more than 200 injured.
Growing demand and rising world food prices have brought about an agricultural boom in Argentina. But it’s also meant a steady increase in the use of farm chemicals, which critics say is responsible for climbing cancer rates and other serious health probl
The Catholic Church is concerned about the growing flock of pilgrims who come to the Pampas to worship the 18th century defender of the poor
Dictator convicted for 1970s murders, abuses, but not before giving his version of history EYES INSIDE – LATIN AMERICA Argentina’s former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, the architect of the notorious Dirty War of the late 1970s, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for murder and human rights abuses, bringing some long-awaited sense of […]