Word: alfonse
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Cold winter weather settled over Argentina last week, but for President Raúl Alfonsín the heat was on. A team of negotiators from the International Monetary Fund was pressing Alfonsín to curb Argentine wages and government spending as part of an austerity program that would...
Seeing no easy way out of his bind, Alfonsín made an unorthodox move. Without reaching an agreement with the IMF negotiators in Buenos Aires, Alfonsín sent his own economic plan to IMF headquarters in Washington in a direct plea to Managing Director Jacques de Larosiè...
"We have inaugurated a new political style in the country," Argentine President Raul Alfonsin declared as he signed a 15-point agreement with former President María Estela (Isabelita) Martínez de PerÓn and the leaders of 14 other parties last week. The pact was another...
Alfonsín has yet to produce his long-promised strategy for curbing inflation or for negotiating with the International Monetary Fund a restructuring of the country's foreign loan obligations (although last week Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico were reported to be discussing in general terms various proposals...
Thus most observers regard the dalliance with Isabel as a good move for Alfonsín. "Alfonsín can't lose," explains a senior diplomat in Buenos Aires. "If the unity approach works, he will have six to nine months of discussion rather than combat. If it doesn...