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Argentina: Polls closed, political upheaval expected

According to AP findings, the elections could lead to a political upheaval in Argentina, as according to the polls, the country's Peronist center-left are ready to return to power under Alberto Fernndez, while it is expected that due to "a bruising economic crisis", significantly less support will be given to the incumbent Conservative President Mauricio Macri.

Argentina: Biggest Work Stoppage Looms for Macri As Teachers Plan Strike

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Mauricio Macri has come back from his trip to Spain to news that teachers nationwide, accompanied by large sectors of the General Confederation of Labor of the Republic of Argentina (CGT), are planning a strike for March 6 and 7 in the largest work stoppage since Macri assumed the presidency in December of 2015.

Argentina: Macri Forgives Father's $4.5 Billion State Debt

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - In the midst of an economy heavily slowed by a drop in industrial production, rising inflation, an increase in joblessness, a rise in poverty and growing divide between rich and poor, conservative President Mauricio Macri has caused anger and saw an investigation opened after he signed an executive order that forgives his father's $4.5 billion debt to the Argentine Sta

Argentina: UN Asks for Release of Activist Milagro Sala

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The United Nations' Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has asked the government of Argentine President Mauricio Macri to "immediately" release Milagro Sala, a social activist and an MP in the Parlasur, following her "arbitrary and baseless" arrest in January of this year.

Argentina: Macri's Malvinas/Falklands Policy Ruffling Feathers At Home

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - After attempting to break completely with his predecessor Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's policies on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands and take a softer stance, Argentine President Mauricio Macri has earned criticism not only from political opposition but even from within his own government.

President Plevneliev Meets Bulgarian Community on Argentina Visit

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has met with representatives of the Bulgarian community during a visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, his press office has said.

Economic migration to Latin America was massive among Eastern Europeans back in the 1920s. It is Argentina where most of the Bulgarian emigrants headed alongside Brazil.

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