After rough discussions, Lower House committees today cleared the holdouts bill for debate with changes proposed by the Renewal Front and criticism from Victory Front lawmakers.
• Macri’s holdouts bill wins key support• Economists clash over pros and cons• FpV warns deal could prompt legal action
The leader of the Justicialist bloc in the Lower House Diego Bossio said the so called “vulture” funds “speculated” about Argentina’s political scenario before accepting an agreement on the country’s defaulted bonds.
CTA union claims as much as 90,000 have been sacked since Macri took office
Carlotto blasts president for ongoing layoffs in the public sector
The president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Estela Barnes de Carlotto slammed President Mauricio Macri yesterday for the ongoing layoffs of state and public sector workers since his inauguration in December last year, framing the situation as a potential threat to human rights.
The Supreme Court avoided taking a position on the constitutionality of the restrictions on the purchase of dollars that were decided by the administration of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, saying the so called currency “clamp” was an “abstract” and “useless” matter.
Kirchnerites criticize ‘insufficient’ response from Let’s Change
Pink House condemns political attacks
Nobel Peace prize laureate links attacks to right-wing groups
Pérez Esquivel’s Mar del Plata residence destroyed after break-in
Despite lifting of dollar clamp
BA immigrants keep faith with the city’s cuevas
By Orlando Jenkinson
An American tourist was stabbed to death and at least nine other people were wounded by a Palestinian armed with a knife on a popular boardwalk in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, authorities said, while US Vice President Joe Biden was in a meeting a few kilometers away.
The US dollar today jumped 6 cents to 15.26 pesos (buying price) and 15.66 pesos (selling price) in Buenos Aires City banks and foreign exchange office.
US stocks ended near session lows on Tuesday in a late selloff as the energy sector tumbled alongside the price of oil and after soft Chinese trade data rekindled fears that the global economy is weaker than anticipated.
32 people resulted injured as a San Martín train engine caught fire in the Buenos Aires City neighbourhood of Villa Devoto. None of them was in a "serious" condition, SAME chief Alberto Crescenti said.
Mexican president on US elections
Peña Nieto likens Trump’s rhetoric to Hitler, Mussolini
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto made a piercing intervention into the US presdiential race, breaking a months-long silence on the battle for the White House by comparing the language of Donald Trump to that of dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in an interview.
Lionel Messi, who has made a brilliant start to the year for Barcelona, will play his first 2018 World Cup qualifiers this month after being named in a 29-man Argentina squad.
Venezuela has settled debts with at least three global drug companies by giving them bonds that trade at a heavy discount, a further sign of the country’s worsening financial crisis.
Economist and former economy minister Aldo Ferrer died at the age of 88. Politically related to the Radical Party, Ferrer earned a vast public service career.
#womensday
Healthcare 'lottery' hurts LatAm’s females
Access to potentially life-saving contraception and abortion can be a lottery for women and girls in Latin America, often depending on their ability to pay or the personal and religious views of a health worker, Amnesty International said.
The #NiUnaMenos social movement, which has drawn attention to the violent murders of women across the country, will stage activites to coincide with National Women’s Day in Argentina, with organizers stressing that a number of key issues are continuing to hamper the success of the campaign.
Argentina’s Asia-Pacific Chamber of Commerce
New Zealanders eye new opportunity for cooperation
By Michael Soltys
By Pablo BardinTchaikovsky marathon at Colón, a real treat
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