WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Friday approved a delayed review of Argentina's loan program, paving the way for the release of a $320 million tranche.

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June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Argentina's economy, after 17 straight quarters of contraction, expanded in the first quarter from a year ago, as a currency devaluation revived local industry and growing consumer confidence bolstered spending.

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The Associated Press. - A continuación presentamos un resumen de los resultados para Argentina de la Encuesta de Actitudes Mundiales 2003, realizada por el Centro de Investigaciones Pew para la Población y la Prensa, con sede en Washington.

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WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - A Treasury official on Thursday presented a long shopping list of economic reforms the United States would like to see from Argentina, saying that getting the reforms through, not timing, was the main issue.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An army general from President Nestor Kirchner's native Patagonia took over as Argentina's top commander Wednesday, completing one of the biggest reorganizations of the armed forces since the end of military rule in 1983.

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Buenos Aires: Nestor Kirchner, Argentina's new president, has outlined his vision of a more active state, and warned that the country would not pay its debts at the cost of creating more hunger and poverty.

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Néstor Kirchners Pläne: Er übernimmt das Amt des argentinischen Präsidenten in schwieriger Zeit

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Argentina's Kirchner wants bad debt paid over decades

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 21 (Reuters) - President-elect Nestor Kirchner wants Argentina's creditors to forgive part of $60 billion in defaulted debt and agree to be paid the balance over decades, he said in interviews published on Wednesday.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 21 (Reuters) - Argentina has no plans to place controls on so-called speculative capital, Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna said on Wednesday.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 19 (Reuters) - Argentina posted a primary surplus of 663 million pesos ($229 million) in April, Treasury Secretary Jorge Sarghini told a news conference on Monday

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, April 15 (Reuters) - An Argentine economy ministry official said on Tuesday the country's primary budget surplus had beat the target agreed with the International Monetary Fund in a debt rollover deal reached earlier this year. Argentina posted a first quarter primary budget surplus of 1.788 billion pesos ($604 million), said the official, who asked not to be named.

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BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Nearly 50 percent of the Argentine economy is not officially registered, causing massive tax evasion and hidden wealth, the Clarin daily said Friday>>>

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US Treasury Secretary Paul O' Neill has promised to help Argentina resolve its differences with the International Monetary Fund.

            Earlier Argentina's president had told him that
            Argentina needed urgent aid to help it overcome its
            financial crisis. 

Mr O'Neill - on the last leg of a tour of the region - failed offer any fresh aid to crisis-hit Argentina. But the US financial chief said he hoped a deal between the IMF and Argentina would be completed "very quickly".

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By Guillermo Háskel - HERALD STAFF

In a desperate attempt to prevent ex-president Carlos Menem from clinching the Peronist presidential nomination, the administration of Eduardo Duhalde yesterday urged Santa Fe Carlos Reutemann to change his mind and run in the party’s primaries in the hope he may defeat Menem. But Reutemann immediately dismissed that possibility by saying: "I maintain my stance. I am not a candidate."

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Buenos Aires, Jul 25 (EFE).- Activity in the Argentine construction sector plummeted 38.5 percent through June with respect to the comparable period last year, the National Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC)reported Thursday.

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... The jobless rate reached 21.5% and 49.7% of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area lived in poverty...

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BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C - News) 's Argentina unit wants a 58% stake in and management control of SA La Nacion in exchange for the $100 million in overdue debt the banking company is owed by the newspaper publisher, the Buenos Aires Economico newspaper reported Friday.

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BUENOS AIRES, July 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Argentine midfielder Juan Veron backs national team coach Marcelo Bielsa, in spite of the early elimination of the South American team in Korea-Japan World Cup finals.

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The Iranian government organized and carried out the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires eight years ago that killed 85 people, and then paid Argentina’s president at the time, Carlos Saúl Menem, 10 million dollars to cover it up, a witness in the case has said in sealed testimony.

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Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) announced in Rome yesterday that it will not be investing further in Argentina and “divest progressively” from its operations in Latin America. The announcement came after the Board of Directors approved its 2002-2005 strategic plan, which seeks to focus activity on domestic markets and core activities. In a statement the bank said its exposure to crisis-ridden Argentina was fully covered and that it would raise its primary capital adequacy, addressing two issues which have been a key concern to the market. “The 2002-2005 industrial plan will allow us to reach our economic and capital goals and will mean that we will strengthen our financial position already this year,” the group said in a statement after a daylong board meeting.

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BUENOS AIRES, July 19 (Xinhuanet) -- The World Bank approved on Friday a 150-million-dollar credit to Argentina in the next three months to finance its social projects

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Economy minister blames banks for discouraging swap, as battle lines reportedly drawn with Central Bank chief over freeze

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PARIS Remember the financial crisis of 1997? It started in Thailand and spread like fire to Malaysia. We thought that Indonesia would be spared, being "too big to fail" - until creditors decided not to renew short-term credit lines. Soon after, all of Southeast Asia found itself in the eye of the storm.

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BUENOS AIRES, July 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The Argentine government promises to respect the current schedule for March 30, 2003, presidential election and will not change the voting date again, which originally was set for September, 2003, a senior Argentine official said on Wednesday>>> news.xinhuanet.com

Thu 18 Jul 2002

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs signed Argentine guard Emanuel Ginobili, a star player in the Italian League.

Terms of the contract were not released Thursday, but the San Antonio Express-News reported earlier that the two-year deal would be worth about $3 million. Spurs Sign Argentine Shooting Guard Thu 18 Jul 2002

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs signed Argentine guard Emanuel Ginobili, a star player in the Italian League.

Terms of the contract were not released Thursday, but the San Antonio Express-News reported earlier that the two-year deal would be worth about $3 million.

The 6-foot-6 Ginobili, who was San Antonio's second-round draft pick in 1999, has played in the Italian League for the past four years. Last season he was an All-Star and averaged 20 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.3 steals.

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs signed Argentine guard Emanuel Ginobili, a star player in the Italian League.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, July 18 (Reuters) - Argentina will issue $9.35 billion in bonds by July 29 to compensate banks whose dollar-denominated savings and loans were converted into pesos at mismatched rates, creating billions of dollars in losses, Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna said on Thursday.

The solvency of the entire Argentine financial system is at risk since the government switched banks' dollar loans into pesos at parity but changed dollar deposits to pesos at a rate of 1.4 to the dollar earlier this year, after devaluation.

The government has promised banks compensation after they incurred billions of dollars in charges because of the mismatch but the exact dollar value of the package was not officially known until Thursday's announcement.

Lavagna did not say, however, when the bonds mature or provide any other details of their terms. (Reuters)

Leftist Deputy Luis Zamora claims he was also threatened, along with Peronists Kirchner and Rodríguez Saá.

Amid growing allegations of a government conspiracy to assassinate presidential candidates, government spokesmen vehemently denied the existence of such a plot and said that Peronist President Eduardo Duhalde will remain uninvolved in upcoming elections. In a statement yesterday, presidential spokesman Eduardo Amadeo dismissed charges levelled by Néstor Kirchner, the Peronist governor of Santa Cruz province and a presidential hopeful, of persecution and threats against his life by the SIDE intelligence agency in collusion with Duhalde’s caretaker regime.

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Government admits proposed bonds-for-deposits swap fell far short of expectations, but Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna still confirms bond swap will not be made mandatory.

Barely 15 percent of depositors with savings frozen in the banking system opted to swap them for government bonds by the close of yesterday’s deadline.

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Buenos Aires, Jul 14 (EFE). Former IMF research director Michael Mussa said former Argentine President Carlos Menem triggered the country's "economic collapse" during his presidency (1989-1999). The International Monetary Fund's director of research from 1991 to 2001, blamed the tragedy on the government's "ineptitude" at controlling the fiscal deficit and on its maintenance of a rigid exchange rate.

He also said the Fernando de la Rua administration, which ended abruptly with De la Rua's resignation on Dec. 20, committed the same mistakes.

"The main responsibility for the Argentine economic collapse (lies with) Menem's government," he told the La Nacion daily. weiter>>> hoovnews.hoovers.com

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a request from Argentina to extend by one year the repayment expectation of SDR 741 million (about US$985 million), which arises on July 17, 2002 under the Supplemental Reserve Facility (SRF). weiter>>> www.imf.org