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... JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: remembering a poet who challenged his country's military dictators. Jeff is back with that. JEFFREY BROWN: Juan Gelman was an Argentine poet who became a major literary figure throughout Latin America and in Spain. He was also known for his fight against the military ...
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who was announced to be Pope Francis, appeared on the Vatican balcony to greet onlookers in St. Peter's Square and say a prayer.
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
“We will join forces like never before, because we believe that this is the best way to make our people and our countries prosper.” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a long-time advocate for the EU-Mercocsur deal as negotiations lumbered through his three nonconsecutive presidential terms ...
... the U.S. claims to call the shots. "It's a complete sea of uncertainty, and the only one who now has the power to make decisions is the United States government," said Pablo Rojas, 28, a music producer. He said he was following Trump's meeting with Machado closely ...
... to Beijing’s orbit,” she said. South America's agitation over the delays The political tensions that have marked Mercosur in recent years — especially between Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei and Brazil’s center-left Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the bloc’s two main partners — have not ...
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