A failure in “high-voltage lines” left more than 300,000 people in Buenos Aires without electricity for four hours on Tuesday. The cut, which affected neighbourhoods in the centre and south of the city, came on a day of oppressive heat and high commercial activity ahead of the Christmas holidays. The blackout “occurred due to an intentional … Read more
Argentine soybean workers reached an agreement on wage talks, ending a strike that had snarled shipments and fuelled a surge in Chicago futures. The deal includes a 35 percent salary increase in 2020, an annual bonus equal to the 2020 salary with the 35 percent raise, an exceptional bonus for the employees who worked during … Read more
As last year drew to a close, a strike by soy-crushing workers that had lasted most of December, crippling agro-industrial exports was settled. This week, world soy prices topped US$ 500 per ton – the highest since 2014. However, a new cloud now looms on the rural horizon over another crop – a farm stoppage … Read more
With classroom education dead in the water all last year save the odd hinterland rural school and with teacher unions threatening this new year by making the perfect the enemy of the good in demanding blanket vaccination among other protocols before returning to work, why is a drastic educational reform not given the same prominence … Read more
Maize in a maze would be as good a way as any of describing the government’s slapdash suspension of corn exports early in this new year, only to retreat before mid-January in the face of a fairly toothless farm stoppage – with so much lockdown, we can do without lockout. At first sight this futile … Read more