Argentina Just Made History With Biggest IMF Bailout Loan Ever

About $15 billion from the credit line would be immediately available to Argentina after the package is approved by the IMF’s board, which is expected on June 20. The rest would be dispersed as needed as Argentina meets its targets.

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By ZeroHedge.com

Just a few weeks after Argentina became ground zero for the coming Emerging Market crisis, when its currency suddenly collapsed at the end of April amid soaring inflation, exploding capital outflows and a central bank that was far behind the curve (as in "13% of rate hikes in a week" behind)... ... the IMF has officially bailed out the

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Things Get Messi After Argentina Cancels Soccer Match with Israel

Argentina’s cancellation of a match with Israel due to Israeli attempts to exploit it politically is likely to reverberate well beyond the world of soccer.

Dr. James M. Dorsey
By Dr. James M. Dorsey
Argentina's Lionel Messi walks on the pitch during a friendly soccer match between Argentina and Haiti in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 29, 2018. Victor R. Caivano | AP

Argentina’s cancellation of a friendly against Israel because of Israeli attempts to exploit the match politically is likely to reverberate far beyond the world of soccer and spotlights the risks of Israeli efforts to persuade the international community to recognize Jerusalem as its capital. The Argentinian decision suggests that despite the fact

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Pleasing Investors at the Expense of the People, Argentina Sells out to the IMF

President Mauricio Macri has put the country back on the neoliberal path with policies that favor big agricultural producers inside the country, and investors both inside and outside of Argentina.

Jon Jeter
By Jon Jeter

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA -- Days before Christmas of 2001, a 54-year-old Argentine woman named Norma Cecilia Albino shoved her way past the throngs of demonstrators protesting the government’s new banking restrictions, walked into a bank branch in a northern Buenos Aires neighborhood, strolled to the counter, and asked to withdraw a few pesos from

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How Profit Deals With Protest: The Disappearance Of Argentinian Activist Santiago Maldonado

The Maldonado case has exposed state repression of Mapuche resistance and activism. Digging deeper, we find linkage of the activist’s disappearance to capitalist exploitation — and to the clothing company, Benetton, which owns the largest share of territory allocated to a foreign company in Latin America.

Ramona Wadi
By Ramona Wadi
Demonstrators hold photos of missing activist Santiago Maldonado, during a protest at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Human rights groups say Maldonado went missing a month ago today, after Argentine border police captured him during an operation against Mapuche Indians who were blocking a highway in Argentina's Patagonia. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Over 40 days have passed since the forced disappearance of Argentinian activist Santiago Maldonado. President Mauricio Macri’s government appears to be more preoccupied with protecting the impunity of the Argentine Military Police, also known as the gendarmerie, than with listening to the demands for Maldonado’s release -- or at least for

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Netanyahu Greeted With Protests On First Visit To Argentina

More protests are expected throughout the prime minister’s 10-day Latin American tour.

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By teleSUR
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, walks with Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie, right, inside the Argentine Foreign Minister Palace San Martin, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Netanyahu is on a two-day official visit to Argentina. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Adolfo Perez Esquivel, human rights activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has criticized an official state visit to Argentina by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Perez Esquivel argued that Israel's head of state is “accused of having committed crimes against humanity in the International Penal Court for killing civilians,

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Fate Of Seized Activist May Point To New Era Of State Violence In Argentina

It has been a month since Argentinian indigenous activist Santiago Maldonado was bundled into a government van. Amidst government denials, demonstrators–cognizant of the nation’s bleak history of state violence–want answers: evidence of Maldonado’s safety and whereabouts.

Roqayah Chamseddine
By Roqayah Chamseddine
Demonstrators hold photos of missing activist Santiago Maldonado, during a protest at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Human rights groups say Maldonado went missing a month ago, after Argentine border police captured him during an operation against Mapuche Indians who were blocking a highway in Argentina's Patagonia. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

The streets of Argentina are boiling over with demonstrations, as thousands of locals demand that the government produce an indigenous activist last seen one month ago when border police forced a group of the indigenous Mapuche off of indigenous land in Patagonia -- land unjustly owned by the Italian clothing company Benetton. According to

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