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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Buenois Aires Herald

The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has dismissed as premature Argentina's appeal against a contempt ruling handed down by district judge Thomas Griesa, in the case related to a legal conflict with holdout investors over unrestructured debt bonds.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner today announced benefits for pensioners, blasted media outlets and judges, and referred to the Renault-Nissan alliance unveiled today which includes a 600 million dollar investment in Córdoba province.
Judge Fabiana Palmaghini will decide if prosecutor Viviana Fein continues leading the investigation into the death of Alberto Nisman, after hearing arguments from Fein and federal judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, ex wife of the late AMIA special prosecutor.
Former Economy minister Felisa Miceli has escaped jail, after being sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence due to the discovery of a bag in her office in 2007 with 100,000 pesos and 30,000 US dollars inside.
Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández today said the government’s subpoena for ex-spymaster chief Antonio “Jaime” Stiuso to appear before the Intelligence Secretary Oscar Parrilli , is still in force.
• Veteran spy Stiuso fails to appear before Parrilli, may face legal action

AS CFK ADMINISTRATION DECLASSIFIES documents

UK reveals plans for Malvinas by mistake

After opening the week lower following the holidays, the blue illegal rate was 11 cents down at 12.38 pesos, hitting a new low in more than eight months, leaving the gap between the official and the parallel rates below 40 percent.
US Secretary of State John Kerry may meet with the Cuban foreign minister at a hemispheric summit this week in Panama, the State Department said.
In a busy day in the battle between the government and Citibank over its deal with the so-called “vulture funds”, the Central Bank cleared the international finance giant’s subsidiary to continue operating normally, but the legal clash is expected to continue, as the bank also filed a request challenging the suspension of its CEO Gabriel Ribisich in court.
US stocks rose today, adding to recent gains, after deal news including a bid from FedEx for a Dutch peer suggested companies still see value in the market.



Iraqi forensic teams began yesterday excavating 12 suspected mass grave sites thought to hold the corpses of as many as 1,700 soldiers massacred last summer by Islamic State militants as they swept across northern Iraq.


A new trail against Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, notorious perpetrator of massive crimes in the Northern provinces during the last dictatorship, began yesterday at Federal Court No. 2 in Córdoba City. In this case, Menéndez is accused of the assassination of three activists from a Peronist youth group in June, 1976. The former general has already received eight sentences of life imprisonment.

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Striking back

Martín Gambarotta - News Editor

Striking back

Poverty and the poor

James Neilson / As I See it

Poverty and the poor



By Luciana Ekdesman
Once or twice a year, Alfredo Arias visits Argentina, for work or pleasure. Though he confesses that his early artistic calling had him shipped off to Military School, he managed to follow his own ideals.

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