Argentina
UK-Argentine tensions rise over Malvinas Islands
By Bill Van Auken, February 10, 2012
On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the war between Britain and Argentina, tensions over the Malvinas Islands are rising once again.
Latin stock markets hit hardest by US credit downgrade
By Luis Arce, August 12, 2011
Latin America’s financial markets suffered the most severe losses of any in the world in the “Black Monday” global sell-off that followed the downgrading of US debt.
Argentine victims of dirty war to sue Daimler Benz in US Court
By Rafael Azul, May 23, 2011
A US appeals Court has reinstated a suit against German carmaker Daimler Benz for its participation in the kidnapping and murder of workers at one of its Argentine plants during the so-called dirty war of the 1970s.
Top Argentine union leader arrested in murder of left-wing worker
By Bill Van Auken, February 25, 2011
Jose Pedraza, the president of Argentina’s Railway Union, was arrested Tuesday for the murder of Mariano Ferreyra, a left-wing worker, during a goon squad attack last October.
General strike in Argentina over killing of left-wing youth
By Rafael Azul, October 25, 2010
The general strike Thursday was organized over the murder of Mariano Ferreyra, a 23-year-old leftist youth, by thugs from the rail union, which works closely with the government.
British oil drilling off Malvinas escalates tensions with Argentina
By Paul Bond, March 2, 2010
Britain’s decision to begin exploratory drilling has stoked tensions with the Argentine government over control of the disputed Malvinas (Falklands) Islands, and the oil reserves on the seabed around them.
One Giant Leap to Nowhere
By Tom Wolfe, August 30, 2009
This article was taken from the New York Times editorial pages to use a a test for the new posting application
Workers Struggles: The Americas
November 11, 2008
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute http://www.wsws.org/wsws/dd-formmailer/dd-formmailer.php to this regular feature.
Fearing default, Argentina moves to nationalize private pension funds
By Luis Arce, October 24, 2008
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner proposed legislation Tuesday to nationalize the country’s private pension funds—known in Spanish as AFJPs—in an attempt to stave off a new government default on its debt.
Former Argentine generals sentenced to life
US links to the junta
By Debra Watson, September 8, 2008
At the end of last month two former Argentine generals were convicted of kidnapping, torturing and murdering a senator three decades ago, during the military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla.
Wall Street loots Argentine workers’ pensions
By Cesar Uco, August 20, 2001
One of the most important but least known aspects of the current Argentine crisis is the looting of workers’ pension funds by the Buenos Aires government, local banks and Wall Street. Billions of dollars in savings by public employees and other workers are to be put up as collateral as part of the gov
As markets applaud cuts
Argentine workers strike against austerity measures
By Bill Vann, July 25, 2001
International financial investors appeared satisfied, at least for the moment, with a new round of economic austerity measures that provoked crippling strikes by the Argentine workers last week. The Buenos Aires stock market continued a moderate rebound amid indications that the Peronist opposition as well
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