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Argentina's confidence game
By Hector R. Torres - Oct 05,2021
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s Peronist government is in turmoil after being humbled in primary elections on September 12.
The global retreat of free trade
By Hector R. Torres - Sep 26,2019
BUENOS AIRES — In the 1980s, US President Ronald Reagan’s administration forced Japan to accept “voluntary” restraints on its exports, particularly of automobiles, in order to reduce America’s trade deficit and protect its companies from Japanese competition.
The IMF is fuelling an Argentine crisis – again
By Hector R. Torres - Apr 25,2019
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina first needed to borrow from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) back in 1958. In the six decades since, the country has signed 22 agreements with the fund.
Cuba comes in from the cold
By Hector R. Torres - Aug 15,2015
A few years ago, it would have been difficult to imagine Cuba knocking at the doors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.Now, with the United States having just restored diplomatic ties with the island after more than a half-century of enmity, it seems to be


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