Friday, November 9 2007

Corruption in Argentinean elections

In this video, Al Jazeera’s correpondent in Argentina, Teresa Bo, describes one aspect of the political corruption in Argentina, in which “punteros” bought votes from people in exchange for food and money for the presidential election that took place on October 28th.

Tuesday, October 30 2007

Is Germany a Model for Argentina?

I was just reading in La Nación an interview with Cristina Krichner, the newly elected Argentine president, and when asked which country she’d like Argentina to emulate, she answered Germany. This is both a good and a bad answer.
What’s good is that she didn’t say that Argentina should be like Venezuela where a neo-militarist uses [...]

Wednesday, May 23 2007

Google Earth, the new weapon for tax collectors?

Santiago Montoya, the controversial Undersecretary of Tax Collection of the Province of Buenos Aires best known for his Tax raids on Sex Hotels has now effectively started using Google Earth to collect taxes in Argentina. With Google Earth he can see the size of buildings and collect fines if they exceed the floor to [...]

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