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    Argentinian First Lady Kirchner Elected President

    Oct 29, 2007 10:25 PM EST

    KWAME HOLMAN: Before thousands of cheering supporters at a Buenos Aires hotel, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner celebrated the election returns that transformed her from Argentina's first lady to its next president.CRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER, President-Elect, Argentina (through translator): We have won by a landslide, maybe with the ...

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    Falling Peso in Argentina

    Jan 07, 2002 05:00 AM EST

    ... LERRICK: I don't believe so. I believe that first and foremost the Argentines must come up with their plan. It has to be an Argentine plan and should not be an IMF plan, a US Treasury's, a G-7 plan, because the Argentines are the people who have ...

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    Argentina Reinstates "State of Seige" After President's Resignation

    Dec 21, 2001 06:00 PM EST

    ... unemployment rate. The latest crisis started when the De la Rua government failed to procure an emergency $1.3 billion loan from the IMF that Argentina needs in order to meet its next debt payment. If Argentina fails to garner more hard currency and make its loan payments, Latin America ...

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    Argentina on the Brink

    Dec 21, 2001 05:00 AM EST

    ... MIGUEL DIAZ: Well, this play has yet to be played out completely, the story has yet to be played out completely. You still have to make very important decisions on the exchange rate regime in Argentina -- whether to dollarize or whether to devalue -- those are very important decisions that the ...

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    Argentine President Resigns, Yielding to Public Demands

    Dec 20, 2001 11:15 PM EST

    ... s recession. Cavallo's deputy finance minister resigned last week after Cavallo failed to procure an emergency $1.3 billion loan from the IMF that Argentina needs in order to meet its next debt payment. If Argentina fails to garner more hard currency and make its loan payment, Latin America ...

  • G20 summit in South Africa ends with glaring U.S. absence after Trump's boycott

    G20 summit in South Africa ends with glaring U.S. absence after Trump's boycott

    Nov 23, 2025 06:31 PM EST

    ... been critical of a South African agenda for the group that largely focused on climate change and global wealth inequality — focuses the Trump administration derided. Argentina said it also opposed the declaration after Argentine President Javier Milei — a Trump ally — also skipped the summit. Other G20 nations, including China, Russia ...

  • U.S. now wants to reverse its boycott and join the G20 summit, South African president says

    U.S. now wants to reverse its boycott and join the G20 summit, South African president says

    Nov 20, 2025 05:21 PM EST

    ... African Union are also members. South Africa, which is the first African nation to hold the rotating presidency, is hoping to use its summit to make progress on issues especially affecting poor countries. That includes mitigating the impact of climate change and weather-related disasters, easing debt burdens for developing ...

  • Chile votes in polarized election after campaign focused on immigration and crime

    Chile votes in polarized election after campaign focused on immigration and crime

    Nov 16, 2025 06:12 PM EST

    Kaiser wants to hold undocumented migrants in detention camps and bar their children from attending school. “He's the only one that can make Chile a first-world country again,” said Alatina Velázquez, 20, a student at a recent Kaiser rally where fans wore red "Make Chile Great Again" caps ...

  • What happens when no one trusts a country’s economic data

    What happens when no one trusts a country’s economic data

    Oct 24, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... I was getting were two or three times higher than the official numbers for inflation. William Brangham: As the real data became clearer, both regular Argentineans and global investors lost trust in the country's economic numbers. Alberto Cavallo: It became very hard for the government to finance itself. And ...

  • Trump threatened to move World Cup games away from Boston, but it's up to FIFA to pick sites

    Trump threatened to move World Cup games away from Boston, but it's up to FIFA to pick sites

    Oct 15, 2025 07:11 PM EST

    ... fans from around the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.” Trump's comments came during his meeting with Argentina President Javier Milei and it wasn't immediately clear what he was referring to by parts of Boston having been seized. Earlier this month ...