The highway is next to the Retiro bus and train stations and goes over the slums. Thousands of people use the highway everyday to go to work downtown.
At first the demonstrators were just blocking some lanes, but after 4pm the road was completely blocked.
The protest angered some drivers...  Read More

by m. belén arce terceros
Herald staff

Fabián Rodríguez Simón, an official from the Public Spaces Ministry, alleged that most of the people blocking the highway were not residents from the Villa 31 shanty town. “There are only 100 people and they are activists from Quebracho and Polo Obrero,” leftist movements...  Read More

By Guillermo Háskel
Herald staff

Socialist Party Chairman and Santa Fe Senator Rubén Giustiniani yesterday said that he will support a drive to scrap the private pension system that is likely to be passed into law today by the Upper House. But he warned that he will severely question the bill...  Read More

Argentina’s two main umbrella unions yesterday continued to press the government for policies to prevent a possible wave of layoffs in foreign-owned companies due to the world financial crisis.
The Argentine Workers Central (CTA), the nation’s second largest umbrella group, yesterday requested that the government bar companies from firing employees for...  Read More

herald staff
The Budget and Finance Committee of the Lower House yesterday cleared for debate the government’s bill to extend the cheque tax and the state of economic emergency for 2009. The bill also opens the door for amendments to income tax scales.
The ruling Victory Front has called for a...  Read More