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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez said on Monday that he did not want to rush into a new deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), amid broader concerns that a previously set May date to reach an agreement will be missed.
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Fernandez, addressing the country’s Congress, said that Argentina would also launch judicial action to investigate the former administration’s agreement with the Fund, which he has previously criticized for exacerbating debt levels.
“We will continue our negotiations with full focus and with the firmness we have always shown, we do not want to rush,” Fernandez said, adding that the government’s focus was to revive economic growth hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Argentine President Targeted by Mob Fighting to Keep Out Mining Bloomberg 16/03/2021 Jonathan Gilbert © Bloomberg Alberto Fernandez, presidential candidate for Frente de Todos party, arrives at a polling station during presidential elections in the Puerto Madero neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019.
(Bloomberg) Argentine President Alberto Fernandez had to dodge protesters to get onto a minibus that was then pelted with stones as environmentalists battle a move to give mining the green light in Chubut.
Fernandez was in the Patagonian province to check on efforts to extinguish forest fires. He was caught off guard as protesters seized the opportunity to take their objection to precious-metal mining to the very top of government.
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On December 21, 2020, environmental crimes investigators in the western Argentine province of Neuquén carried out a raid against a company that handles fracking waste in the heart of the Vaca Muerta shale basin, a booming oil and gas field in northern Patagonia. They seized a cache of documents, and opened an investigation into the potential illegal handling of massive volumes of fracking waste.
The raid on the Argentine waste company Comarsa by the office of Environmental Crimes and Special Laws, a unit under Neuquén’s chief prosecutor, was prompted by a lengthy criminal complaint filed to the office just a few days earlier by a group of environmental lawyers. Within the complaint, the lawyers document what they describe as a decade-long illegal accumulation of toxic fracking waste at multiple sites in the city of Neuquén, the largest city in Patago
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