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      <title><![CDATA[Argentina’s most serious institutional crisis since 1983, but “could be for good”]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/20/argentina-s-most-serious-institutional-crisis-since-1983-but-could-be-for-good</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Argentina is going through the most serious institutional crisis since the return of democracy in 1983, according to respected political analyst and historian Rosendo Fraga. Never “have we seen such an intense clash among the three branches of government”.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, Argentina]]></category>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:20:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Buenos Aires celebrates “excellent” 2009/10 cruise season with 11% more visitors]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With just a few days for the official end of the 2009/2010 cruise season Buenos Aires City is celebrating an increase in the number of ship calls and visitors, according to the preliminary results of a poll contracted by the City’s Tourism Board.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Tourism, Argentina]]></category>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:08:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Guessing time: Argentine economy expanded or contracted in 2009?]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/20/guessing-time-argentine-economy-expanded-or-contracted-in-2009</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Argentine industrial output grew by 11% in February compared to a year ago and 3.4% over January, powered by car and steel plants feeding demand from neighbouring Brazil, which is recovering faster than expected from the global crisis.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Economy, Argentina]]></category>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:03:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Falklands: Taiana certain UK will understand it must sit to negotiate]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/19/falklands-taiana-certain-uk-will-understand-it-must-sit-to-negotiate</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana said on Thursday that there has been progress in creating the “political and diplomatic conditions” for the United Kingdom to understand the need for negotiations on the Falkland Islands sovereignty.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, Argentina, Falkland Islands]]></category>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:49:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Argentine government expects quick return to international bond markets]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/19/argentine-government-expects-quick-return-to-international-bond-markets</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Argentina moved a step closer to a planned swap of defaulted debt and an issue of up to 15 billion US dollars in new bonds, with an amended filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Economy, Argentina]]></category>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:22:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Argentine public opinion growingly disenchanted with political leadership]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/18/argentine-public-opinion-growingly-disenchanted-with-political-leadership</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[To everybody’s surprise Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her husband and former president Nestor Kirchner have experienced a recovery in their public opinion standing, according to a poll from a “most respected consultant” which does not work for the Argentine government.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, Argentina]]></category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:10:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kirchner administration is “made out of words and scandals” like a soap opera]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/17/kirchner-administration-is-made-out-of-words-and-scandals-like-a-soap-opera</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Former Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde compared President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's administration with "soap operas and afternoon TV shows," making a strong reference to celebrities' disputes in order to gain TV air and their resemblance with politicians.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, Argentina]]></category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[First Russian head of state visit to Argentina next month]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/17/first-russian-head-of-state-visit-to-argentina-next-month</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will travel to Argentina on April 14 and 15, the first official visit by a Russian head of state in 125 years of bilateral relations, the Argentine Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, Argentina, International]]></category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:09:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Argentine scientists research bio-diesel production from micro-algae]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/16/argentine-scientists-research-bio-diesel-production-from-micro-algae</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A team of Argentine researchers from the National Technological University of Mar del Plata (UTN) is working on a research project to produce bio-diesel from marine micro-algae, with the aim of developing economically viable and environmentally sustainable processes.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Fisheries, Argentina]]></category>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:03:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Israel discloses information on terrorist attack against embassy in Argentina]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/15/israel-discloses-information-on-terrorist-attack-against-embassy-in-argentina</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the week of the 18th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, the Israeli government claims to have identified the intellectual and material perpetrators of the bombing which left 29 dead, 242 wounded on March 17th, 1992.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, Argentina, International]]></category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:54:00 UTC</pubDate>
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