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2015-03-31 Caribbean-Latin America

Argentine workers strike over taxes; transport paralysed

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Posted by Frank G 2015-03-31 15:36|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The government said inflation was 24 percent in 2014, but private economists estimate it was about 35 percent.

I guess a new Falkland war is inevitable.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-31 16:23|| 2015-03-31 16:23|| Front Page Top

#2 It does matter the age or nationality, there will always be people who believe there's a magic money tree(tm) and politicians who promise it to them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-31 16:30|| 2015-03-31 16:30|| Front Page Top

#3 as a followup (HT to Faustablog)
Máximo Kirchner held bank accounts abroad with Nilda Garré, says financial sector investigator
The son of Argentina´s president, Cristina Kirchner, is said to have been a joint accountholder in million-dollar bank accounts in the United States and Cayman islands with Argentina´s former ambassador to Venezuela

On Sunday, March 29, the Argentinean newspaper Clarín published an article in which it claimed that Nilda Garré had held bank accounts in the United States and Iran. One of the accounts mentioned by the newspaper was with Felton Bank, headquartered in the American state of Delaware, and amounted to US$ 61.5 million between 2005 and 2010.

The Iranian bank account was said to have been opened on April 28, 2011. This occurred only three months after a secret meeting held in the Syrian city of Aleppo in which the foreign ministers of Iran and Argentina negotiated the creation of a truth commission that would serve to cover up Iranian participation in the 1994 attacks against the Jewish association Amia in Buenos Aires, according to the Argentinean prosecutor Alberto Nisman who was murdered in January of this year.

read the rest at Faustablog, an excellent Latin American news resource

Posted by Frank G 2015-03-31 16:46|| 2015-03-31 16:46|| Front Page Top

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