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Friday, November 14, 2014

Buenos Aires Herald

Friday
November 14, 2014
According to the INDEC statistics bureau, the inflation rate increased 1.2 percent in October, compared to the previous month. This way, the annual inflation aggregate is at 21.4%.
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The Federal Administrative Contentious Camera court has confirmed the first economic sanction against a supermarket chain for not displaying goods included in the government-sponsored Price Watch program.
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Economy Minister Axel Kicillof has arrived in the Australian city of Brisbane to attend the G20 summit joined by Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had to call off her participation in the meeting following a signoiditis condition that put her in hospital for a week and forced her to recover at the Olivos presidential residency.
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Argentina has “multiple” development possibilities and its economic outlook is not strictly tied to an eventual deal that could be reached with vulture funds in January, the head of ministers said.
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Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri confirmed his government has approved the electronic voting system for next year’s elections saying the move will prevent all “fraud possibilities,” reducing parties’ cost to compete in the 2015 run.
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“The basic principles to carry on an effective supervision demand transparent policies in the financial market, and active actions towards informing users of such services,” the head of the BCRA said.
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By Luciana Bertoia
One of the former Spanish ministers from the Francisco Franco era whose extradition was requested by Federal Judge María Romilda Servini de Cubría yesterday said he wanted to appear before the magistrate despite the reluctance by Spanish authorities to cooperate with the Argentine courts.
Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich spoke about the sanctions received by six major global banks and likened it to the recent government’s raids on brokerage firms and underground foreign-exchange houses in the local market.
• Procelac's Gonella vows more controls • Regulators fine global banks $4.3 billion • 'China swap helped reduce dollar pressure'
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By Michael Soltys
The 6th edition of the India Festival starts on Friday and will run for the next 10 days, mostly (but not exclusively) in its main base of the Borges Cultural Centre.
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The Buenos Aires province Lower House has approved the new budget law for 2015, as well as an additional tax bill which estimates public spending at 246.2 billion pesos and 30 percent rise in rural and urban real-estate tax.
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At least 35 people were wounded after two buses crashed in the intersection of Avenida de Mayo and Berón de Astrada, in Ramos Mejía, BA province.
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Mexican Finance Minister Luis Videgaray said that there would likely be some impact from protests over the apparent massacre of 43 students abducted by police seven weeks ago.
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The Confederation of Industrial Unions of the Republic of Argentina (CSIRA) has announced unions and business leaders will sign a joint document reaffirming their “unconditional support” to the “industrial model conducted by President Cristina Kirchner.”
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As she gradually resumes activities following a week in hospital where she was treated for a sigmoiditis condion - an inflammation of the sigmoid colon -, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner signed the extension of Congress ordinary sessions till December 31st.
• CFK slowly returning to work
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Argentina emphatically rejects military maneuvers in Malvinas Islands because they represent UK’s increasing militarization in the disputed area, Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said, reaffirming Argentina’s call for peaceful negotiations as established in the United Nations 2065 resolution.
• Gov't protests British military exercises
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A precandidate to run in next year’s primaries under the ruling Victory Front party ballot, Sergio Urribari did not question Daniel Scioli’s loyalty to the Kirchnerite administration but did highlight that the governor of the province of Buenos Aires is surrounded by people who "are not friends of the national project.”
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The mission of the first robotic probe to land on a comet reached a high point today when the spacecraft radioed back to Earth that it had successfully drilled into the comet's body.
• Space lander resting on comet's surface
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US-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days, as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group, US Central Command said in a statement today.
• UN says IS responsible for mass war crimes
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Mali is trying to trace at least 200 contacts linked to confirmed and probable Ebola victims in an effort to control its second Ebola outbreak, health officials said earlier today.
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US President Barack Obama is planning to ignore angry protests by Republicans and announce an immigration overhaul through executive action that would shield up to five million undocumented immigrants from deportation, the New York Times and the AP have reported.
An ornately detailed screen given to Evita Perón from late Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung, behind which the Argentine populist diva dressed and undressed, is among thousands of missing items at the heart of a legal battle about to unfold in Buenos Aires.
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Brazilian police arrested a former Petróleo Brasileiro SA executive today, sending the state-run oil company's shares and bonds down after a widening corruption scandal forced it to delay the release of its financial results.
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By Fermín Koop
Amid a shortage of dollars in the economy, a court yesterday gave the AFIP tax bureau a green light to go after exporters who do not bring the dollars generated from their trade operations into the country.
The father of Alexander Venancio, one of the 43 missing Mexican students, said that if it were not for the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) the case would have been closed long ago.
The issue of what to do with the expansion of the top division to 30 teams beginning in 2015 continues to divide football down the middle. On one side of the debate, some of Argentina's most popular clubs such as River Plate, Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo have demanded measures be taken to reverse the bloated league as soon as possible.
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Argentina roared back to beat hosts Italy 20-18 with their two tries eclipsing the awesome boot of new Azzurri kicking king Kelly Haimona.
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Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich said that the bill to reform the Criminal Procedural Code is open to the “democratic contribution from all political sectors,” following the 40 amendments the project received yesterday in the Senate Committee.
• Procedural Code gets 40 amendments
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President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA) monsignor José María Arancedo has confirmed the pontiff will be not coming to Argentina in June 2016 when he was expected to attend the National Eucharistic Congress in the Tucumán province.
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According to wholesalers who market this product, the dominant paper manufacturing firm Papel Prensa argues that the shortage is due to floods in a number of provinces. This emergency, the firm says, has hampered the regular production of paper because of the difficulties in accessing the trees that are used to produce paper pulp.
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The changing face of Catholic Argentina

The Catholic country of Argentina is increasingly becoming one that is no longer so strictly defined by the Vatican-based faith.

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An Argentine court has ordered pop star Justin Bieber to appear before it within two months to face questions about an alleged assault on a photographer at a Buenos Aires nightclub last year, state-run news agency Télam reported.
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By Pablo SuárezAn avalanche shatters a ‘perfect’ family

The group Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Neumeyer Mountain Shelter, the Catholic Cathedral and Chile’s Consulate in Río Negro province and urged all Mapuches to join them in the fight “against the real enemy, the invaders, usurpers and destroyers of the (Mapuche) people.”
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