Word: argentinas
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Zalaquett, former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International, said the arbitrary detention of citizens is not always defined as illegal in Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina...
Until last week the Reagan Administration's attitude toward the debt crisis was that foreign countries should solve their problems by adopting austerity measures and paying off their staggering loans. As a result, such countries as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina were required to adopt tough economic policies that ran the risk of setting off severe social unrest. The new U.S. approach recognizes that borrowers will remain at the brink of collapse unless they can rev up their economic growth. Said IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosiere: "The debtor countries must grow out of debt." To do so, they will need...
...seemed at last to be improving. Mexico, which owes $96 billion, and Venezuela, a $35 billion debtor, had persuaded bankers to stretch out many of their loans. Adhering to their agreements with the IMF, the Latin countries were struggling to reduce inflationary government spending and curb expensive imports. Even Argentina ($50 billion), which last year took a defiant stance toward its creditors, successfully froze wages and prices last summer and issued a new unit of currency, the austral, which is equal to 100 old pesos. As a result, Argentine consumer prices rose only 2% last month, compared with...
...defendants' bench had been empty throughout the 17 weeks in which a total of 896 witnesses told chilling stories of abduction, torture and murder during a six-year period of military rule in Argentina. But last week the nine military leaders, including three former Presidents, who have been charged with responsibility for the "dirty war" in which an estimated 9,000 people disappeared, were required to attend the trial summation...
Nearly 500 spectators crowded into the courtroom for this first appearance of the once powerful junta members, among them Jorge Videla and Leopoldo Galtieri, who ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1982. The nine generals contend that whatever abuses occurred during their time in office were the result of their antiterrorist campaign to save the country from a leftist takeover. Said Prosecutor Julio Strassera: "Accompanying me in this demand for justice are more than 9,000 desaparecidos (those who disappeared) who have left their silent but no less eloquent damning testimony." A verdict is expected by the end of the year...