Among other issues, the former mayor of Buenos Aires will have to tackle slow growth driven by unsustainable spending and inflation at well above 20 percent.Mauricio Macri meanwhile acknowledged the need to reach out to rivals, calling for unity after his narrow election win, as Argentine voters laid bare the country's divisions.Conservative opposition candidate Mauricio Macri won Argentina's presidential election on Sunday after promising business-friendly reforms to spur investment in the struggling Read more [...]

The victory of Mauricio Macri, the Mayor of Buenos Aires, in Argentina’s presidential election over the ruling Peronist party’s Daniel Scioli, marks an end to the so-called Kirchner era, at least for now. Over the past 12 years, the outgoing President, Cristina Fernandez, and her late husband Nestor Kirchner dominated the country’s polity, reshaping the character of the Argentine state into a welfare institution from being a free-market facilitator. Mr. Scioli had promised to follow the Read more [...]

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A huge hoarding of Sardar Singh dwarfing the other international stars welcomes visitors to Raipur. Hockey vishwa league aapki prateeksha kar raha hai (HWL is waiting for you), it says. It won’t be wrong to say the city is eagerly waiting for the tournament as well. Raipur and a new stadium that, till last month, did not figure on the various online maps of the city, will debut in international hockey when host India takes on Argentina in the opener of the Hockey World League Finals at the Read more [...]

Raipur: India have improved by leaps and bounds recently but the hosts have to be on their toes when they face Argentina in the lung-opener of the Hockey World League (HWL) Finals, here on Friday.India are placed in a very tough Pool B alongside world number five Argentina, world no. 2 Netherlands and world no. 3 Germany. <!-- View all1025 Comments -->Under High Performance Director Roelant Oltmans, who is also doubling up as the chief coach of the Read more [...]

The Hockey World League (HWL) Final is set to start with a bang as hosts India take on Argentina in the mega event opener in Raipur on Friday. The HWL, which culminates on 6 December, will see eight teams battling it out for the prestigious title. The eight teams have been divided into two groups. Group A consists of Australia, Great Britain, Belgium and Canada while Group B has Germany, the Netherlands, Argentina Read more [...]

CARACAS - Venezuela's second most powerful official rebuked Argentine President-Elect Mauricio Macri on Wednesday for "offending" a brother nation by calling for his country's suspension from a regional trade bloc over rights accusations.The win by conservative Macri on Sunday was a disappointment to Venezuela's ruling Socialists. He used his first news conference afterwards to reiterate his position that President Nicolas Maduro's government should exit Mercosur. Read more [...]

BUENOS AIRES Argentina's automakers said on Wednesday the reforms promised by president-elect Mauricio Macri would take a while to bear fruit in Latin America's third largest economy and they expected their sector to remain stagnant throughout the first half of 2016.Argentina's car industry has struggled in recent years due a stagnant domestic economy and a regional slowdown, particularly in main trading partner Brazil.Further challenges under President Cristina Fernandez were an overinflated Read more [...]

Shutterstock photo BUENOS AIRES—President-elect Mauricio Macri on Wednesday selected a team of veteran policy experts to overhaul Argentina's economy, a day after he said departing President Cristina Kirchner declined to help with a cabinet transition. Mr. Macri tapped former central-bank President Alfonso Prat-Gay as his finance minister. Mr. Prat-Gay, who once ran the currency research Read more [...]

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Wednesday spoke by phone with newly elected Argentinian president Mauricio Macri, congratulating him on the victory and inviting him to visit Israel. Macri won the presidency in a runoff vote on Sunday, heralding an end to 12 years of left-wing government by the populist Peronist movement. According to the Prime Minister's Office, Macri told Netanyahu that Argentina's stance toward Israel is about to change for the better Read more [...]