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Seems like our new Buenos Aires News idea was popular enough to be “borrowed” on another site, so I guess we’re doing something right. (Though some credit would have been nice.)
Argentina Playboy Bunny Campaigns for Whales in Chile [Merco Press]
Argentine top model Vanesa Carbone cat-walked topless in front of the Japanese embassy in Santiago de Chile to protest Japan’s indiscriminate whale hunting and the use of animal skins in human clothing. Save the whales! (And yes, there is a photo on their site too.)
Spain’s Bets Sour in Latin America [Wall Street Journal]
Argentine lawmakers Wednesday approved a draft law to seize back the country’s largest airline Aerolineas Argentinas and its subsidiary Austral from its owners, the Spanish group Marsans. The measure approved by Argentina’s lower house of Congress Wednesday declared Marsans’ properties to be “of public utility,” which is enough under Argentine law to allow expropriation. Marsans claims the airline is worth $250 – $450 million while the Argentine government wants to pay 1 peso (.30 cents) for the airline.
Argentine political soap opera bubbles along [San Francisco Chronicle]
Argentine Vice-President Julio Cobos has become an outcast in the government after he cast the tie-breaking vote in July’s farmer’s strike against his boss President Cristina Fernandez, but his popularity soared. His approval rating is twice that of the president in some approval polls, but that doesn’t mean it’s any easier to come to work for him.
Yes, We Have No Monedas! [Slate]
Subtitled “Inside the world’s most annoying economic crisis,” this is yet another story about the shortage of coins in Buenos Aires and the many interesting ways people are dealing with it. Michelle and Tom’s blog has their own interesting experiences with the Argentine coin shortage. Truly a strange problem to see…
Fernandez Unveils Stimulus Plan for Argentine Economy [Bloomberg]
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has unveiled a 13.2 billion-peso ($3.9 billion) plan to spur the country’s consumption and exports in a bid to counter the effects of the global financial crisis. Whether it works or not remains to be seen.
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Still Life in Buenos Aires // Dec 5, 2008 at 11:57 am
I like your news posts.
It’s messed up that the Slate writer stiffed the waiter out of 50 centavos.
Plus, he could have received a 1.50 in change if he gave the guy 12.
2 Michele // Dec 5, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Mil gracias for the link love on the lack of monedas in BA. We post about the subject fairly frequently since trying to get 3 people on the bus twice a day is no easy task in the change department! (We get weird looks from the parents in our kids’ private school as we haul them onto the colectivo!)
I just added your blog to our blog roll as well! We’re not nearly as prolific as you (my God you are a blogging machine) but we try to post every day and give good info. out about BA from an expat family perspective!!
Buen fin de semana!
3 DaVe // Dec 8, 2008 at 4:58 am
Michele – thanks for the link and luckily we work out of our apartment and do not take the bus. It’s definitely an interesting problem to see though…
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