Ampliar Buenos Aires province, Argentina's most populous, has registered 30 cases of dengue fever, provincial authorities confirmed to local radio stations on Thursday. EFE/File Buenos Aires, Jan 21 (EFE).- Argentina is on alert for dengue fever, with 1,100 cases nationwide and a situation of epidemic proportions in the country's northern border provinces. Argentina already has passed from the "containment phase" Read more [...]

By Jonathan Randles Law360, New York (January 21, 2016, 6:14 PM ET) -- The U.S. said Thursday it will drop its yearsold opposition to Argentina's obtaining development loans in recognition of economic reforms being sought by newly elected Argentine President Mauricio Macri.The decision followed a meeting at the World Economic Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, between U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Argentine Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay, a Treasury spokesman said in Read more [...]

Argentina – a new dictator is born. Actually no, he has just been elected. – Or, was he? – It appears like the newly elected Mauricio Macri is the most fascist and dictatorial President since the Videla military era. Unlike Videla, Macri hasn’t murdered people (yet); not by traditional weapons, but may do so by economic strangulation – the weapon of choice of neoliberalism. At a young age, Macri, now a multi-billionaire has had dealings with Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner Read more [...]

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew informed Argentine Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay of the move on Thursday when the two met in Davos, Switzerland, the department said in a statement. It said the United States will consider each Argentinian project on its own merits.The policy had been in place since 2011 as part of a larger U.S. campaign to pressure Argentina to pay debts and other obligations to American investors a decade after the South American country defaulted on more than $81 billion of Read more [...]

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Argentina President Mauricio Macri's announcement of a national security emergency underscores both the public’s growing concern regarding crime and the new government’s determination to stop it. But some critics are already saying the president has gone too far. Argentina's presidential office outlined several new measures that will be implemented under the national public security emergency announced on January 19, including the creation of a law enforcement cabinet and the authorization Read more [...]

20 de enero de 2016, 22:45Buenos Aires, Jan 20 (Prensa Latina) The meeting announced for Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, between Mauricio Macri and British Prime Minister David Cameron, generates today expectation in Argentina about if they discuss the issue of Malvinas (Falkland) Islands. Before departing for Switzerland to participate in the International Economic Forum, also known as the Davos Forum, Macri said he wants to begin a new type of relation with Great Britain regarding the Malvinas Read more [...]

The rules include expanded radar coverage aimed at detecting and deterring drug and flights.Opponents have jumped on the protocol for potentially shooting down unresponsive planes, saying it amounts to a death sentence. But Security Secretary Eugenio Burzaco said yesterday that would only be a last resort.New President Mauricio Macri has vowed to crack down on drug trafficking and Burzaco says there were some 400 irregular flights into the country last year.The fatal shoot-down of a missionary Read more [...]

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A little more than a month has passed since the moment when Argentina elected its new president - pro-American politician and neoliberal Mauricio Macri. His election raised tensions in the country in connection with an abrupt change in the political course. Today, Argentina hopes for Washington's help. Ukraine has been there and done that.  Mauricio Macri and democracy Macri was elected president of Argentina on November 23, 2015. The result of the election has left the feeling of discomfort with Read more [...]