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News Headlines May 5, 2015: US Authorizes Ferry to Cuba, China Wants Muslims to Sell Alcohol, Tel Aviv Protests Due to Police Brutality
United States Authorizes Commercial Ferry Service to Cuba Qatar Detains German Reporters Investigating World Cup People’s Republic of China Orders Muslims to Sell Cigarettes, Alcohol to “Weaken Islam” Canadian Anti-Terror Legislation Sparks Anger France’s Lower House Approves Sweeping Intelligence Bill Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Claims Responsibility for Texas Shooting Blue Galaxy Discovered 7.4 […]
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Fallout Series Lore and History: The Great War
FALLOUT Lore: Prologue – Great War The Great War – a global nuclear war between the United States and China that saw atomic bombs dropping across the surface of the globe The Resource Wars, the global fight for oil between the major powers, saw China and the United States as the sole remaining superpowers afterward. […]
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News Headlines August 12, 2013: Uruguay Votes on Weed, David Cameron Advocates for Fracking, Mexico Opens Up Its Oil Market
Uruguay’s Lower House Votes to Legalize Marijuana David Cameron Advocates for ‘Fracking’ in Great Britain Gunmen Kill 44 at Nigeria Mosque US Deal to Sell Brazil F-18 Jets Scuttled After Spying Allegations Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Railway Files for Bankruptcy Following Disaster Bahrain Begins Program to Silence Citizen Journalists Benghazi Sees Rash of Political Killings […]
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The Return of Peronism in Argentina: Neo-Corporatism and Axel Kicillof
- May 5, 2012
- Argentina
- Axel Kicillof
- Carlos Menem
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- Economics
- Ecopetrol
- ENAP
- Eskenazi Family
- European Commission
- Jose Manuel Barroso
- Julio de Vido
- La Campora
- Leftist
- Nationalization
- Natural Resources
- Oil
- PDVSA
- Pemex
- Petrobras
- Privatization
- Repsol
- Socialism
- South America
- Sovereign Debt
- State Owned Enterprises
- The Peterson Group
- Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales
- YPF
Limits on foreign currency exchange have led to the development of an underground market for dollars – such is the economic climate in Argentina today. Six months after tightening currency controls, it is not uncommon to find such ‘cash vendors’ in metropolitan areas like Buenos Aires, the capital, and, though illegal, it often is an […]
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Argentina’s Shift Left: How President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s Flirtation with Socialism Hampers Prospects for Economic Growth
- April 28, 2012
- Argentina
- Carlos Menem
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- Economics
- Eskenazi Family
- European Commission
- Jose Manuel Barroso
- Leftist
- Nationalization
- Natural Resources
- Oil
- Peterson Group
- Privatization
- Repsol
- Socialism
- South America
- Sovereign Debt
- State Owned Enterprises
- Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales
- YPF
Argentina’s move to seize control of national oil giant YPF (Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales) has cheered domestic supporters of embattled Peronist President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, but the move has angered Argentina’s trans-Atlantic friends in Spain. What began as a business issue has now become a full-blown diplomatic incident. The proposed nationalization of YPF follows Kirchner’s previous […]
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President of Argentina Cristina Fernández Kirchner Nationalizes 51% of YPF, the Former State Oil Company
The move is widely considered an economic catastrophe for Argentina but the nationalization of former state oil enterprise YPF, a hallowed mark in Argentina, will not only address energy and cash shortages but may also shore up the president’s popularity. Yet, many find this most recent move by Cristina Fernández disturbing because, like Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, […]
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