Gov’t decries farmers’ holding back grains from export markets
Some roads blocked, some of the time
Thousands of farmers lined highways yesterday and began holding back grains from export markets as they renewed anti-government protests that have pushed up soy prices on world markets. And, despite their promise not to block roads, launched several roadblocks.
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Airlines cancel flights
The ashes from the Chaitén volcano in Chile fell on Esquel, Chubut, again yesterday, but Buenos Aires City government sources said the ashes are not going to fall in BA, at least in the coming 48 hours.
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Though wind drifts, ashes continue falling in Chubut.
No Ash Thursday in Buenos Aires
Although not to the same extent as Orson Welles’ infamous radio broadcast which caused nationwide panic, as the overcast sky turned into different, changing hues of grey, Porteños yesterday saw no good auguries when TV news shows warned that “The Chaitén volcano’s ashes are reaching Buenos Aires.”
Not for the time...
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Plural Concertation ally
Sapag turns K
Neuquén Governor Jorge Sapag, after announcing on Tuesday night that he had joined the government’s Plural Concertation alliance, making it clear that the Kirchners have proved they’re still successful at building new political alliances in spite of growing criticism from other allies, including K-Radicals, who questioned the K-alliance as secondary.
Sectors...
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MACRI, TELERMAN TOGETHER AT INAUGURATION CEREMONY
Old enemies, strange bedfellows
The new La Noria bridge, which spans the Riachuelo waterway and links BA City with the south of the Greater Buenos Aires area, was formally opened yesterday by BA City Mayor Mauricio Macri. The ceremony was also attended by part of Macri’s cabinet, and his predecessor Jorge Telerman.
The two...
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Rural leaders begin withholding grain from export markets
Farmers resume protests
Farm leaders in Argentina —a key world supplier of maize, wheat and soy— yesterday broke off weeks of tense talks with the centre-left government of President Cristina Kirchner, complaining the government refused to modify a new duty scale on soy exports.
Farmers were holding back products from markets such as the...
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PROJECT TO AMEND BROADCASTING LAW
Citizens push for media diversity
“The proposal of President Cristina Kirchner to sanction a new broadcasting law is a unique opportunity to fight against monopolies and to start an era of diversity and pluralism in the media,” a group of experts said yesterday at a conference at the National Library.
The seminar, called “The role of...
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The healthiest hamburger of all
Researchers from the La Plata National University (UNLP) yesterday announce they had modified the procedure to prepare hamburgers and made a product with the same taste, more nutritional value and less fatty acid. The researchers had been working for two years in the project....
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