Tag: #BuenosAires
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Argentina tightens exchange controls to stem capital flight
Buenos Aires, Oct 29 (AFP/APP): Argentina introduced strict exchange controls Monday to preserve depleting reserves as president-elect Alberto Fernandez and incumbent Mauricio Macri held talks, seeking to reassure investors over the country’s impending swing from market-friendly policies to protectionism. The country’s central bank said the currency exchange controls would help stem a surge in capital…
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Argentine frontrunner calls for unity after presidential poll
Buenos Aires, Oct 28 (AFP/APP): Argentina’s leftist presidential frontrunner Alberto Fernandez vowed Sunday to end sharp divisions between his Peronist movement and supporters of the business-friendly incumbent Mauricio Macri, as the country seeks to emerge from a crippling economic crisis. Exit polls put the 60-year-old lawyer, whose running mate is ex-president Cristina Kirchner, in the…
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Moderate Peronist Fernandez closes in on Argentine presidency
Buenos Aires, Oct 26 (AFP/APP): Alberto Fernandez has been a discreet backroom operator throughout a long career in Argentine politics, but all that could change after Sunday’s elections. Little known outside Buenos Aires politics, the 60-year-old law professor and Bob Dylan fan burst onto the international stage by trouncing President Mauricio Macri in August primaries…