Argentina
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November 11, 2008
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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 ...
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 o...
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 B...
Argentina: Congress grants Cavallo emergency powers
Wall Street's man in charge
By Bill Vann, March 28, 2001
After nearly three years of recession and facing a desperate foreign debt crisis, Argentina's Congress has voted to grant emergency powers to Domingo Cavallo, the newly installed economy minister and ...
General strike in Argentina
By Gerardo Nebbia, November 28, 2000
A 36-hour general strike called by three union federations in Argentina virtually shut down the nation of 37 million inhabitants last week. The mass walkout was a protest against austerity measures by...
Argentine debt crisis threatens global turbulence
By Nick Beams, November 21, 2000
In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, the government of Argentina won praise from the International Monetary Fund for its embrace of privatisation, government spending cuts and fr...
Growing hostility to Argentine government's austerity program
By Margaret Rees, June 29, 2000
Backed personally by US President Clinton, Argentina's President Fernando De la Rua is seeking to impose IMF-ordered spending cuts despite a general strike on June 9. About 60 percent of the Argentine...
Argentine police in violent attack on trade union demonstrators
By Will Marshall, April 25, 2000
Violent scenes erupted outside the Argentine Congress last week as police assaulted workers and trade unionists protesting against the De la Rua government's labour reform bill. Five police were caugh...
New Argentine government shoots down protesting workers
By Margaret Rees, December 30, 1999
Within a week of taking office, the government of Argentina's newly-elected President Ferdinand De la Rua quickly revealed its true face when paramilitary police shot dead two demonstrators and wounde...
Indictment of Argentina's military alarms political establishment
By Will Marshall, November 30, 1999
Outgoing Argentine President Carlos Menem has bitterly opposed moves by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon to indict 98 former Argentine military officers for carrying out atrocities. Garzon's 282-page arr...
