ARGENTINA: Child Benefits Expanded to Unemployed and Informal Workers
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Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Nov 5 (IPS) – A new monthly family allowance of nearly 50 dollars per child that will be paid out as of December to parents who are unemployed or work in the informal economy in Argentina was heralded by experts as an extraordinary step forward [...]
ARGENTINA: ‘Drugs Are Killing the Youngsters We’re Feeding’
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Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Nov 2 (IPS) – ”You often ask yourself why feed them if some wretch is just going to come along and sell them that rubbish,” says Isabel Ruiz, who runs the Las Brujas soup kitchen in Moreno, a poor neighbourhood on the west side of [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Investment in Ecosystems Key to Adaptation
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Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 30 (IPS) – Investing in the sustainable management of ecosystems and curbing environmental degradation greatly improves the capacity of nations to adapt to climate change, according to a study carried out in 16 countries by two environmental organisations.
The World Wide Fund for Nature [...]
Q&A: Climate Change Just One Factor in Coastal Erosion
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Gabriela Cerioli interviews Argentine geologist JORGE CODIGNOTTO* – IPS/IFEJ
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 14 (IPS) – The Paraná River delta in eastern Argentina is the only one in the world that is not disappearing, and that is due to deforestation for cultivating soybeans, explains geologist Jorge Codignotto, a former member [...]
ARGENTINA: Opposition, Media Giants to Fight New Law
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Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 12 (IPS) – While civil society groups celebrated Argentina’s new broadcasting law, media giants threatened to fight it with a wave of lawsuits, and opposition lawmakers pledged to revise it after the next Congress convenes in December.
In the new legislature, the result of [...]
ARGENTINA: Dubious Past? No Problem for Private Security Firms
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Sebastián Lacunza
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 1 (IPS) – Civil society groups in Argentina are concerned that private security firms, which have mushroomed to 850 in Greater Buenos Aires, employ many former police officers and troops who played an active role in the political repression during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship. [...]
ARGENTINA: New Voice for Sexual Minorities
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Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 26 (IPS) – A monthly magazine published by an Argentine umbrella group of some thirty organisations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans (LGBTs) seeks to become a major communications channel for the community and an instrument for disseminating the actions that sexual minorities undertake [...]
ARGENTINA: Corruption Cases Pick Up Speed
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Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 16 (IPS) – While the popularity of the Argentine government of President Cristina Fernández is waning, allegations of corruption against public officials have mushroomed.
A public opinion poll conducted this month by the private consultancy firm Management & Fit found that 71.4 percent of [...]
SOUTH AMERICA: Glaciers – Going, Going, Gone?
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By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 6 (IPS) – South America is perhaps most often associated with the Amazon jungle, the world’s largest tropical rainforest. But along its western edge, from Ecuador to southern Chile and Argentina, it also harbours huge glaciers which are rapidly melting due to global warming.
The 18,000-year-old [...]
ARGENTINA: Clean Energy from Manure
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Marcela Valente* – IPS/IFEJ
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 4 (IPS) – With its enormous potential for biogas production, Argentina is gearing up for this clean energy alternative – which has already seen good results on ranches that transform manure into energy.
Biogas is a fuel generated from the biodegradation of [...]
ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Hitting Bottom – to Stagnate, or Rise Again?
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Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 23 (IPS) – After a prolonged boom, the rate of economic growth in Argentina came to a rather abrupt halt last year. Experts say the crisis has bottomed out, but they won’t venture an opinion on whether what comes next will be a gradual [...]
ARGENTINA: Huge Loan to Flow into ‘Open Sewer’ River
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Marcela Valente* – Tierramérica
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 24 (IPS) – Local residents and environmentalists are eyeing with cautious optimism a major loan from the World Bank to the Argentine government to clean up the Matanza-Riachuelo river that runs through Buenos Aires – the country’s most polluted waterway.
”There is a great hunger [...]
