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Macri challenged by unions: teachers strike delay the first day of school
Thousands of teachers took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Monday, delaying the first day of school for millions of children, as part of a two-day national strike demanding a wage increase to compensate for sky-high inflation last year. Only in two of twenty four provinces, the school year took off normally. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesUnions, teachers & the mythical Malvinas claim.
Mar 07th, 2017 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +2President Macri, Argentine Congress 1 March 2017
''Next year Argentina will host the G20, one of the most important forums in the world.
This is the way to advance our interests, including our legitimate claim for the Falkland Islands,
Georgias and South Sandwich.
Dialogue strengthens our position and allows us to come closer to finding a definitive solution to this prolonged dispute.''
How can Argentina claim the Falklands when she has never legally owned them?
Falklands- Never Belonged to Argentina:
https://www.academia.edu/31111843/Falklands_Never_Belonged_to_Argentina
@brit bob,
Mar 07th, 2017 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse +3''Next year Argentina will host the G20
would you not agree, that Argentina should not be anywhere near the G20, let alone hosting it.
Briton
Mar 07th, 2017 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Yep, they don't even qualify for the G20.
RGland is a sort of 'token' SA presence (alongside Brazil) in the G20 to encourage them to abandon the 'basket case economics' trajectory they followed under the Kirchners.
Mar 07th, 2017 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Actually, we do now more than before, since many countries have performed worse. At one point Argentina was 27th in nominal GDP in 2012 or so, but now it's back to 21st according to multiple sources.
Mar 07th, 2017 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse -2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
It is the UK who does not qualify for the G20, since they are leaving the European Union and need to reapply to the G20, so I would hope Argentina follows the rules and does not allow the British delegation to even land in Buenos Aires next year. Only legitimate G20 members need apply.
AustrOil, who gives a shit about the G20
Mar 07th, 2017 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Austro
Mar 07th, 2017 - 11:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Why does the UK need to re-apply for membership of the G20 after they leave the EU???
Obviously the UK gives a sh!t, but then again the feeling is not reciprocal and everyone is hoping the UK just gets the f--- out.
Mar 08th, 2017 - 12:14 am - Link - Report abuse -4Remember how you Brittos where so sure the EU would be bending over backwards to sto you from leaving after Brexit, and you all claimed they would give the UK all they wanted plus more?
How's that working out??
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
If one entertains for a moment Chopper's being a product of the Argentine educational system, (yes I know, he claims to be an autodidact product of the internet,) it has to be asked how these “starving” abused teachers can still still put on weight whilst producing students of Chopper's obvious level of dysfunction. Or maybe not. If you get paid to strike all year long, you can eat as much as you like and turn out citizens like Chopper effortlessly, while ending up looking like this...
Mar 08th, 2017 - 04:15 am - Link - Report abuse +1http://media.eldestapeweb.com/adjuntos/177/imagenes/000/306/0000306769.jpg
Of course where this leaves Argentina in the long run should be clear. There can never be enough Choppers in Argentina. ;)
Blah, blah, blah.
Mar 08th, 2017 - 07:10 am - Link - Report abuse -4Big disappointment, eh?
This is the beginning of the end for the Macri dinasty, lads.
Told you so!
How unreasonable of the teachers not to agree to a 15% pay cut! How big a raise did the members of Congress get?
Mar 08th, 2017 - 08:42 am - Link - Report abuse +1Kamerad/Komrade Rique, as I have often told you your usage and comprehension of English language is, as always, deficient, making your claim to be an educated “Journalist” in an English speaking country all the more risible. Not sure who in Macri's family you thought would ascend to the throne after him to carry on the“ Dynasty,” but since there is no throne, I'll write it off to your own bizarre delusions. By the way, when was it you said you were going back to Argentina to “make things right?” *crickets*
Mar 08th, 2017 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse +1Austro
Mar 08th, 2017 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse +1Please answer the question - Why does the UK need to re-apply for membership of the G20 after they leave the EU???
If you can give no lucid answer I will have to suppose that, as per usual, you are making up 'facts' to suit yourself.
@darragh
Mar 08th, 2017 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse +1“If you can give no lucid answer...”
Well there you go. You are addressing Chopper, a chat denizen that does not even think he is human. Facts have little effect on him, and his “NoEthic” school of thought pretty much speaks for itself. ;)
Can't remember when the “ teachers ” were not on strike, better to follow the Argentine logic of “ better not to work than work ”
Mar 09th, 2017 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Golfcronie:
Mar 10th, 2017 - 05:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently, you assimilate workers to slaves with no right to defend their purchase power. Following your logic, Argentine teachers should bend to president Macri's offensive on the purchase power of Argentines.
That, FYI, does not work in Argentina. It did work in the past--with the tanks on the streets.
Macri is the first rightist elected government in Argentina, and as such he must achieve his goals within the confines of democracy.
Will be interesting to see how far he can go, but things are beginning to look ugly on both sides.
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