Hundreds of Argentine/financial links from Roubini's site

Argentina's Merval Stock Index
Argentina's Merval Index

Formerly the Cultural/Financial Center of South America

Would economic sanctions
Debt Collection Agency
be worse than this?  

Argentine data from the
World Bank.
"Dollarize or Devalue"
Former President Carlos Menem
5may00 Argentine headlines

"no" to dollarization
...President Fernando de la Rua
... Economics Minister Jose Machinea
... US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Sumners

...devaluation would lead to debt default and insolvency...
Economic Intelligence Unit     August 20, 2000


A Second Wave of Defaults
Time Line of Events Towards Y2000 Bailout
2000: Fernando de la Rua's first year as President
1991 to 2001? Argentina's Currency Board
and the '95 Tequila Crisis
1980s The First Debt Crisis
Labor's Campaign Against
"Financial Dictatorship"

Labor Demonstration --large file
May 31, 2000

Labor Strikes -- large files
June 9, 2000


1945-1983: Eva and Juan Peron Peronism followed by the Dirty War

Military Lineup



Behind the politics of cynicism, money laundering and unstable valuations of financial claims on this country, let's not forget the treasure underlying the struggles -- a land area the size of the United States west of the Great Divide -- a population the size of California's with six times the land mass -- is really about --

D-O-N-T Miss These Shots! Iguazu Falls

One of the
World's Natural Wonders


The Dark Side of Iguazu
the southern islands were home to natives whose fires led sailors to the name

Tierra del Fuego
(Land of Fires)


Glaciar Perito Moreno   		click_for_source
"The" Patagonia (What Else :-)