The Supreme Court rejected yesterday, by unanimous vote of its seven members, the request presented by the Clarín Group to extend beyond the Dec. 7 deadline the preventive measure that has so far delayed the enforcement of a key article of the Audiovisual Communications Law. The Supreme Court also instructed Federal Judge Horacio Alfonso, in [...]
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner : “This is not what I want”
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner explained the official policy against the dollar, defended the need for the full force of the media law and stressed that “there was never much freedom of expression in Argentina”. Most Argentines that were asked. As part of a conference held at Harvard University, President Cristina Fernandez said yesterday that it [...]
Frederick Douglass and The Price of Progress
The general sentiment of mankind is that a man who will not fight for himself, when he has the means of doing so, is not worth being fought for by others, and this sentiment is just. For a man who does not value freedom for himself, will never value it for others, or put himself [...]
Argentina in the middle of a political confrontation
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirsner faces a strike by truckers mobilization to Plaza de Mayo, now scheduled for June 27. Mobilization is primarily to increase the ceiling from which workers pay income tax, currently at $ 5000 pesos. Curious fact is that the minimum wage agreed by the Minimum Wage Council (employers, workers and government), [...]
Argentina: The Nation crippled by a strike by truckers
Last night I was watching the show “A Dos Voces” for TN channel, that says it is not pro government of Cristina Kirchner. In interview, head of the CGT, Hugo Moyano, Chief General Confederation of Labour and reference man of movement concerning transport workers, announced a strike until Friday of every branch of transport in Argentina. [...]
Strauss-Kahn added another complaint, this time for violation
Made her a prostitute, French, traveling to the U.S.. It would have been forced by a group Another chapter judicial review of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the frustrated Frenchpresidential candidate for the Socialist Party. It is now being investigated by the judicial police in Lille in northern France, for allegedly taking part in a “gang rape” a girl ”escort” when he was director of the International Monetary Fund. The disgraced politician, even before his socialist peers, is in the center of [...]
What Happens when Global Warming, Economics and Politics Collide?
In the heady days last century when global warming was of gravest world concern, the Kyoto Protocol was passed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC). It went into effect on 12/11/1997. Now, the rubber meets the road. London’s Financial Times reported yesterday that three worlds – economics, politics and global warming – have collided head [...]
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has no cancer. Controversy
In Argentina there is much confusion about the operation of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Presidential Medical Unit was forced to publish the study where he was diagnosed with cancer in the thyroid, dated December 22. The president was operated on 4 January, where extracted he thyroid. And the day 7 was the news that [...]
The Pope is a religious or political
Pope Benedict’s visit to his German homeland was bound to provoke harsh words from his critics. The surprise of the event was how bluntly he took his own Church to task and disappointed Protestants ready to work with him. Despite his frail physique and soft-spoken style, the 84-year-old pontiff delivered a vigorous defense of his [...]
For Strauss-Kahn, its relationship with the maid was a “moral error”
“A moral error, and I’m proud.” These were the words chosen by the former director of the IMF and frustrated French presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the public “mea culpa” for his wife and the 13 million French people, glued to the television at 20.09 yesterday, the TF1 listened through. It was his first television interview [...]
Venezuela, Cuba colony?
Taking advantage of the exhaustion of Venezuelan society and the weakness of its president, Fidel Castro has made Venezuela a colony brutally used and exploited, which reaches its height with the retention of our president in the capital of Cuba. Slowly but relentlessly, Fidel Castro has taken away the independence and become, in effect, a [...]
Stop. Look. Lisson.
In protest to the arrest of Ai Wei Wei by Chinese authorities, Lisson Gallery erected a huge two-story banner outside their gallery in London.
An intolerant and undemocratic Argentina
In 2009, this blog was published: Argentina: Unionists block distribution of newspapers. Then there was another block in mid-January by pro-governmentmilitants called “K militants”. Since then, in 2009, already successful court rulings ordering the police and prosecutors a trigger for no further such events. The non-daily circulation Clarin, a newspaper in open opposition to the [...]
