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Buenos Aires News: Edition 2

November 26th, 2008 · No Comments

More interesting news from Buenos Aires this week:
Argentine court intervenes in Aerolineas Argentinas [Reuters]
An Argentine court agreed to oversee the day-to-day running of the country’s main airline on Friday amid signs the government is moving to expropriate the carrier from its Spanish owners.
Airline Grab Gains Ground in Argentina [The Wall Street Journal]
An Argentine congressional committee [...]

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Buenos Aires News: Edition 1

November 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Welcome to the first of a weekly series highlighting some of what I consider to be the more interesting news from Buenos Aires and Argentina.  I find many new things every week and often want to blog about them, but realize that I don’t always have the time to get to them.  Hopefully, with these [...]

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Anxious Argentines tighten their purse strings

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

It seems that a lot of the news these days is focused on the ongoing farmer’s strike in Buenos Aires and it’s effect on consumer confidence. Guardian.co.uk is reporting on Argentines putting the brakes on spending due to rising inflation, the continued dispute with farmers and lack of confidence in the president. Many sources dispute the government’s numbers on [...]

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