Tag: #Buenos Aires
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Argentina leader vows to make good on debt
Buenos Aires, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): President elect Alberto Fernandez said Tuesday he will make good on Argentina’s debt payments but without new austerity measures because people in his country are already hard-pressed financially. “We cannot make more fiscal adjustments because the situation is enormously complicated,” Fernandez, a center-left Peronist, said in a statement after speaking…
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Evangelical churches gain ground in Pope’s crisis-hit Argentina
Buenos Aires, Oct 11 (AFP/APP): The pastor’s voice bellows through an old converted cinema in a rundown Buenos Aires barrio and hundreds of hands reach out in prayer. Though not a typical place of worship, Evangelical churches like this one are sprouting up all over Pope Francis’ former archdiocese, as once staunchly Catholic Argentina battles…