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| Peru
Elections in Peru ,
The first round of the Peruvian presidential elections on Sunday April 8, 2001 produced a major surprise - Wall Street’s favoured candidate, Lourdes Flores, came third and was eliminated from the contest. The second round [on June 3] will now be contested between Alexander Toledo (who scored 36.46%) and Alán García, the candidate of the APRA party, who was president from 1985 to 1990, who secured 26% of the vote. -> read article... |
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| Argentina
Social movement revitalisedSaturday August 4: The national leadership of the CTA (Argentine Workers’ Federation) has called on state employees, teachers, legal workers, and university professors to stop work for 24 hours to support the piqueteros, who are carrying out the second stage of their plan to block the main road and communication channels in throughout the country. -> read article... |
| Argentina
Argentina’s Economic Crisis: Interpretations and ProposalsWhy is the economic crisis in Argentina so serious? How can the present and continuing depression be explained? The recession in the economy has persisted for three years, twice the traditional length of cyclical contractions. The fall in investment affects all sectors and the gross domestic product has fallen by 4.3 per cent from the beginning of 1998. -> read article... |
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