By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court was scheduled to meet behind closed doors on Monday to decide whether to hear a high-profile appeal by Argentina over its battle with hedge funds that refused to take part in two debt restructurings that sprang from the country's 2002 default. Argentina has appealed an October 2012 ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in which the court said the government had broken a contractual Read more [...]

In Argentina it is common to hear talk simply of the “hidrovía” as the waterway system of the Paraguay-Paraná rivers, running through Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. However, it is uncommon to hear references to the Rhine-Danube waterway which may have served as a precedent for its institutional model, and to that of the Mississippi, which has served as its business model, as well as to other similar fluvial systems in South America, among them, no less than six waterways Read more [...]

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