News stories by Marcela Valente

BUENOS AIRES, Feb 20 (IPS) - Argentine consumers have responded to calls on social networks to mobilise against price hikes that threaten the country's major advances towards poverty reduction and greater social equality.

BUENOS AIRES, Oct 10 (IPS) - Half of Argentina is supplied with water by invisible underground aquifers, which are crucial in the country's arid and semi-arid regions, experts say. But Tierramérica discovered that nobody – not even the government – has any accurate scientific data on these groundwater reserves.

BUENOS AIRES, Sep 16 (IPS) - To maintain its trade surplus, Argentina continues to control imports – a strategy that has bolstered its national industry but is questioned by importers, partners in the Mercosur trade bloc, and rich countries.

BUENOS AIRES, Sep 08 (IPS) - Disillusioned with an economy that promotes individualism and ruthless consumption, thousands of people in Argentina are giving things away in street markets, organising car pools with strangers or offering free accommodation to travellers from abroad.

BUENOS AIRES, Sep 04 (IPS) - Latin America's cash transfer programmes are a more effective weapon against poverty and social inequality than economic growth alone, according to a study by two Argentine economists.

BUENOS AIRES, Sep 03 (IPS) - The mystery still surrounding the massive business of stealing and buying babies, practised for decades in Spain by the regime of Francisco Franco (1939-1975), could start to be clarified in courtrooms in Argentina.

BUENOS AIRES, Aug 29 (IPS) - As a sign of Argentina's willingness to repay its bondholders, President Cristina Fernández introduced a bill for a new swap of the foreign debt held by "holdout" creditors who refused earlier restructurings after the country's late 2001 default.

BUENOS AIRES, Aug 27 (IPS) - A new system of exclusive lanes for bus rapid transit appears to be benefiting public transport passengers and bus drivers in the most congested part of the centre of the Argentine capital.

BUENOS AIRES, Aug 12 (IPS) - A new social programme launched by the Argentine government to fight hard-core poverty is providing unemployed mothers who are heads of households with education, training, work and an income.

BUENOS AIRES, Jul 30 (IPS) - The progress made by Argentina in trials for crimes against humanity committed by the 1976-1983 dictatorship has been tarnished by a growing number of human rights violators escaping from prison.