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Special Report: Behind the charm, a political pope

August 24, 2021 at 1:37 a.m.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - When Jorge Bergoglio finished studying chemistry at high school his mother asked him what he would study next. "Medicine," replied the skinny 19-year-old, according to his...

Argentina’s dictatorship economy chief Martinez de Hoz dies

August 24, 2021 at 1:07 a.m.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Jose Alfredo Martinez de Hoz, economy minister during the most brutal years of Argentina's "dirty war" dictatorship and architect of some of the crisis-prone nation's most...

Argentina playing last cards in court battle with bondholders

December 25, 2018 at 6:01 a.m.

BUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentina will make a last-ditch attempt this week to stall a U.S. court ruling that has shaken the nation's strategy to put a 2002 debt...

Argentina playing last cards in court battle with bondholders

December 25, 2018 at 5:49 a.m.

BUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentina will make a last-ditch attempt this week to stall a U.S. court ruling that has shaken the nation's strategy to put a 2002 debt...

Leftist coca farmer presides over economic upswing in Bolivia

August 23, 2021 at 5:39 p.m.

EL ALTO, Bolivia (Reuters) - A chaotic sprawl high in the Andes, the Bolivian city of El Alto has a fearsome reputation for altitude sickness, poverty and violent uprisings that...

Leftist coca farmer presides over economic upswing in Bolivia

August 22, 2019 at 6:54 a.m.

EL ALTO, Bolivia (Reuters) - A chaotic sprawl high in the Andes, the Bolivian city of El Alto has a fearsome reputation for altitude sickness, poverty and violent uprisings that...

Bolivian farmers urge rethink on Mother Earth law

August 23, 2021 at 4:48 p.m.

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Soy farmers in Bolivia are urging leftist President Evo Morales to reconsider a ban on genetically modified seeds contained in a package of environmental regulation called...

Bolivian farmers urge rethink on Mother Earth law

December 25, 2018 at 12:26 a.m.

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Soy farmers in Bolivia are urging leftist President Evo Morales to reconsider a ban on genetically modified seeds contained in a package of environmental regulation called...

Bolivian farmers urge rethink on Mother Earth law

December 25, 2018 at 12:21 a.m.

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Soy farmers in Bolivia are urging leftist President Evo Morales to reconsider a ban on genetically modified seeds contained in a package of environmental regulation called...

Bolivian farmers urge rethink on Mother Earth law

August 23, 2021 at 4:47 p.m.

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Soy farmers in Bolivia are urging leftist President Evo Morales to reconsider a ban on genetically modified seeds contained in a package of environmental regulation called...

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