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  • Argentina Manufacturing Sector Posts Modest Expansion in April

    By Ken Parks BUENOS AIRES--Argentina's industrial production expanded at a modest pace in April, confirming that manufacturing continues to slowly recover from last year's downturn, according to a government report Friday. Industrial output last month rose 0.1% from March, and was 1.4% higher from April 2012 in seasonally adjusted terms, the national statistics agency Indec ...

  • 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 ...

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Spring Breakers

Spring Breakers

Spring Breakers, Harmony Korines latest attempt at art-house outrage, is an admittedly canny mix of exploitation sleaze and mainstream subversion. Packaged as a raucous teen bacchanal and released when most of the country is actually on Spring Break, Korines film, unlike hi ... ...

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  • ‘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 ...

  • ‘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 ...

  • On Heaven and Earth by Pope Francis and Abraham Skorka Will the Church become just another charity

    Vatican watchers will find strong clues about the direction of Pope Francis in On Heaven and Earth: a series of conversations Bergoglio held with Rabbi Abraham Skorka of Buenos ...

  • Reuters Summit Rating agencies alert to Argentina debt ruling souring economy

    Beginning in June, Thomson Reuters News & Insight content will be available exclusively on WestlawNext, as part of its Practitioner Insights offering. On June 21, the Thomson Reuters News & Insight website, iPhone app and newsletters will be discontinued. ...

  • Half-fit Messi called up by Argentina

    BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella has called up Lionel Messi for the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Colombia and Ecuador, even though the Barcelona forward is only half-fit.Messi, recovering from a thigh injury which limited his participation in the Catalan club's Champions League semi-final rout by Bayern Munich, is a key figure in the squad to play Colombia ...

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