Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday met with his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, with Prime Minister Mario Draghi and with Pope Francis in another stop of his one-week European tour.
Rabbi Sergio Bergman is a politician, activist, and author who began his career at Emanu El, epicenter of Argentina’s Reform Movement. He was ordained at the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary and HUC-JIR. In 2015, President Mauricio Macri named him Minister of the Environment. Starting June 2020, Rabbi Bergman is honored to serve as the next President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. He is married and has four children.
Argentine peso crashes as Macri’s re-election chances drop
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BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s peso currency crashed on Monday while stocks and bonds fell by a degree not seen in 18 years as voters signalled they could reject market-friendly President Mauricio Macri at an election in October and return the country to interventionist economics. The peso closed 15.27 per cent weaker at 53.5 per US dollar after plunging some 30 per cent to a record low of 65 to a dollar earlier in the day after Macri suffered a heavy loss in a primary election.
Opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez whose running mate is former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner dominated the primary vote by a much wider-than-expected 15.5 percentage point margin over the president.
In a country where 24 people have died in clashes with police and some 800 have been injured, Colombian President Iván Duque woke up Wednesday and gave a radio interview during which he addressed this year s Copa America football competition, which his country is to co-host with Argentina, and guaranteed everything will go on as planned.
Buenos Aires nightlife in recent years is a tale of two tragedies: the 2004 República Cromañón club fire that killed 175 people and the five overdose deaths at the 2016 Time Warp festival. The former allowed politicians to implement draconian measures on clubs, bars, concerts, and festivals where expensive, highly sought-after permits became currency. The latter further solidified these laws, and put temporary restrictions on those permits. When live music returned in late January of 2017, it was with government oversight.
Melody Tayhana, Yban López Ratto, and Nahuel Colazo were keenly aware of how restrictive all of this was for their club-night-turned-label, HiedraH. Since permits were only attainable for extortionate fees, HiedraH âfelt excludedâ from the cityâs nightlife, López Ratto and Colazo say.