Buenos Aires Province Teachers Announce 48-Hour Strike

SUTEBA protest (photo: Suteba) After another meeting with the provincial government failed, the Federation of Educators of Buenos Aires (FEB) confirmed yesterday a 48-hour strike for Monday and Tuesday. They will be once again demanding higher wages in their sector. The head of FEB, Mirta Petrocini said that ';today [for yesterday] the provincial government was callous to the teachers ...

Citibank Asks U.S. Court for Argentina Bond-Payment Assurances

Citibank has asked a U.S. district court to confirm that its Argentine banking unit isn't bound by a ruling that bars the Argentine government from making payments on bonds it issued under New York law.Despite a previous ruling to that effect, Citibank is once more seeking assurances that payments made on Argentine law bonds held in custody at Citibank Argentina are beyond the reach of any ...

With opposition support PRO secures press bill in Buenos Aires City

An alliance between opposition parties Project South and Civic Coalition with the ruling PRO party paved the way for Macri’s controversial press decree to be signed into bill. Helio Rebot -head of the Buenos Aires City Legislature Constitutional Affairs Committee where the DNU emergency decree issued by Mayor Mauricio Macri was being addressed today-, confirmed PRO legislators have ...

Cuba Confirms Willingness to Strengthen Ties with Argentina

Buenos Aires, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Raul Castro confirmed in a letter to his Argentina peer Cristina Fernandez his willingness to strengthen ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. In the letter released here by Telam news agency, the Cuban statesman greeted the Argentinian president, on the occasion of the commemoration of Argentina's May 25, 1810 ...

‘Argentine case a challenge’

Washington - The New York legal case over Argentina's debt poses a deep challenge to all future sovereign debt restructurings, the International Monetary Fund said in a report ...