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Argentina
Ground Zero, Buenos Aires
On the last day of November, 2018 the centre of the city of Buenos Aires was put on lock-down by the police, the military, and the secret services of twenty nations to protect their top government representatives; men and women […]
Argentina Versus the World Bank: Fair Play or Fixed Fight?
Americas Program Special Report, By Tony PhillipsOriginally at cipamericas.org http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/1434 Español traducido : Argentina versus el Banco Mundial: ¿Juego limpio o partido arreglado?Traducido por: Annette Ramos Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) Perspectives on the ICSID and Argentina’s Debt […]
TV Interview on living in Argentina
An interview with me as part of a set called “Why Here?” I.e. why have you relocated to Buenos Aires? It is from a few years back, but later aired on TV and now on YouTube
Argentina Versus Argentina versus the World Bank: fair play or fixed fight?
[The ICSID) is] Obscure, that is, outside of Latin America (where the ICSID is referred to as the CIADI for it’s initials in Spanish). While mention of the ICSID in London or New York will likely elicit confused stares, in La Paz or Buenos Aires CIADI could well provoke a string of expletives.
RIP Nestor Kirchner
Buenos Aires Thursday Oct 28, 2010 Thirty five thousand Argentines, mainly supporters of Nestor Kirchner’s “Peronist” party, waited patiently in front of the Presidential Palace, The Pink House or “Casa Rosada”. They were there to pay their respects. In the […]
Happy 200th Argentina
This week is Bicentenary week in Buenos Aires. As I sit here sucking my Guarani tea (mate) from a straw/bombilla, I reflect on the bombastic inventiveness of history.
Review: The Lives of Eliza Lynch, Scandal and Courage,
I was invited to São Paulo by the Author, former Irish ambassador to the United Nations Michael Lillis, to attend the book launch of the Brazilian Portuguese version of their book. It was refreshing to see that even in the twenty-first century, this shadowy heroine is still capable of eliciting a fiery debate.
Argentina versus el Banco Mundial: ¿Juego limpio o partido arreglado?
Programa de las Américas Informe especial Argentina versus el Banco Mundial: ¿Juego limpio o partido arreglado? Tony Phillips 18 de junio de 2008 Versión original: Argentina Versus the World Bank: Fair Play or Fixed Fight?Traducción por: Annette Ramos Programa de […]