Argentina

After 12 hours of debate, the Argentine Senate has agreed to legalize abortion during the first thirteen weeks of pregnancy.   The lower house had already agreed, and that has settled the matter for the legislators. The country has long struggled with the legalization of abortion and has now taken the plunge by declaring no particular need for artificially terminating the pregnancy until the fourteenth week. Outside the parliament building, numerous people argued for legalization. Next year it will be 100 years ago in Argentina that it was first laid down in law that abortion was not punishable under certain conditions. Abortion is subject to conditions in almost all of South America. Only in Argentina, Guyana, Uruguay and French Guiana are abortion possible without necessary re...

Argentina presents a Plan to Eliminate a budget Deficit. Argentina has given plans to eradicate government budget shortfalls next year completely. With this, the government seeks to resolve the crisis around the Argentine peso.   The Argentinian Minister for Economic Affairs, Nicolas Dujovne, proposed to raise the taxes on exports on Monday. In earlier plans, the government would still have a deficit of 1.3 percent of the gross domestic product in 2019. Last week, the peso ended up in a free fall. In one day the currency dropped 15 percent in value. Since the start of this year, the peso has decreased 52 percent against the dollar. We know it's a bad load The Argentine president Mauricio Macri puts on the fines. "We believed with too much optimism that we could resolve the prob...