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sources quoted in Argentine news reports<\/a>, the prosecutor is believed to have committed suicide \u2013 but this information has not been confirmed.<\/p>\nThe 1994 car bomb killed 85 people and wounded hundreds at the headquarters of the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association in Buenos Aires, in Argentina\u2019s worst ever terrorist attack.<\/p>\nIn 2007 Argentine courts accused Iran of financing and planning the attack, and Hezbollah of carrying it out. The accusations were dismissed by Tehran.<\/p>\nPresident Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner tried to form a joint \u201ctruth commission\u201d with Iran in 2013, to investigate the bombing.<\/p>\nLast week prosecutor Nisman accused the president of orchestrating a scheme to clear a group of Iranians suspected of planting the bomb, in order to facilitate a trade deal with Tehran. According to Nisman, such a move was seen as a step towards normalising bilateral relations and helping Argentina reduce its energy deficit by importing Iranian oil in exchange for grain exports.<\/p>\nSenior officials dismissed his claims. A presidential spokesman called them \u201cridiculous\u201d; Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich had said Nisman\u2019s allegations were \u201ccrazy, absurd, illogical, irrational, ridiculous, unconstitutional\u201d.<\/p>\nA judge handling the bombing case accused Nisman of exceeding his authority, saying the evidence he put forward was flawed.<\/p>\nThe dead prosecutor had been due to present his findings to a congressional committee this Monday.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1421672462,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1421672462,"firstPublishedAt":1421672462,"lastPublishedAt":1421672462,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/296072\/{{w}}x{{h}}_296072.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1200,"height":675}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":630,"urlSafeValue":"sandford","title":"Alasdair 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MAFALDA FOREVER","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Celebrating 50 years of Malfada with cartoonist Quino","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"","summary":"","keySentence":"","url":"celebrating-50-years-of-malfada-with-cartoonist-quino","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2014\/10\/23\/celebrating-50-years-of-malfada-with-cartoonist-quino","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Joaqu\u00edn Salvador Lavado, \u201cQuino\u201d is the first cartoonist to receive a Prince of Asturias Award in the Communications and Humanities category. Quino is the father of Mafalda, born from his pen fifty years ago. Quino has glaucoma and so he cannot continue to draw. Nevertheless, questions and reflections about the young Mafalda have lost none of their striking simplicity. \n\nFrancisco Fuentes, euronews: \u201cWelcome, thanks for joining us.\u201d\n\nQuino. Cartoonist \u201cThank you.\u201d\n\nEuronews \u201cWhat is the significance of the Prince of Asturias Award for you, what are your thoughts on being awarded it?\u201d\n\nQuino: Asturias Award for Communication laureate: \u201cI am very happy because it is a prize for which I have always had great respect. It has always been awarded to people whose work I love greatly and for whom I have great respect.\u201d \n\neuronews: \u201cYou are the first comic cartoonist to win the award.\u201d \n\nQuino: \u201cYes and not the last.\u201d.\n\neuronews: \u201cDo you think generally cartoonists in the world who are working in the humorous genre are recognised enough?\u201d\n\nQuino: \u201cI think so. I think since Umberto Eco conferred a certain category in this kind of comic literature, things are improving a lot for us.\u201d\n\neuronews: \u201cHow do you see the future of comic cartoons?\u201d\n\nQuino: \u201cWe are gong through a technological transition and for now do not know where it will lead. It\u2019s like the e-book. At the beginning there was the fear that this technology would signal the end for paper but that has not happened. So it is difficult to predict the future.\u201d \n\neuronews: \u201cWould you have used iPad, tablets, twitter in your drawings today?\u201d\n\nQuino: \u201cAt the beginning of this new era, I began to amuse myself by drawing with all this new technology, using these terms, most of them in English, and that people use without really knowing what they want say. I think technology will change human relationships. They have already changed quite a lot, but with what is a rather odd handicap: people are linked to thousands of others, but they do not have friends with whom to have a conversation. It is very curious. \u201c\n\neuronews: \u201cLet\u2019s talk a little about Mafalda which is one of the reasons for which we are here in Asturias. She just turned 50 and for several months an exhibition toured the world. Your humorous vignettes, your thoughts are very important. When you started drawing Mafalda did you imagine it would be like this? \u201c\n\nQuino: \u201cNo. I was not expecting anything. I started publishing this character with little thought as to who she was. I had not worked enough before publishing, but at some point I reflected on the question of how to give the character continuity. So I thought it was a good idea for Mafalda to ask her parents questions which they couldn\u2019t answer like: \u201cWhy is there war? Why are people poor? Why do we destroy the world? I found it was a good way to generate interest in Mafalda.\u201d\n\neuronews: \u201cWhy does the character Mafalda not age, time doesn\u2019t affect her? She has not aged a day, she has transcended time to become eternal.\u201d\n\nQuino: \u201cNo. I think the day when readers will rightly realise that in my drawings there is no new technology \u2013 which for me is a big unknown \u2013 then that is when this character will not be of our time and interest will be lost in her.\u201d\n\neuronews: \u201cSince Mafalda is still valid, it seems that the world has changed very little in the past 50 years.\u201d\n\nQuino: \u201cVery little. And it is a great deception on human behavior because it has meant that we continue to make the same mistakes and we have not progressed except in technology.\u201d\n\neuronews: \u201cWhy is the world always in this state?\u201d \n\nQuino: \u201cI think because the economic interests took the place of ideology and political interests. Today there is no ideology and that is very odd for a generation like mine, the generation of 68 and whose motto was power to the imagination. All this was so beautiful and now there is nothing left. \u201c\n\neuronews: \u201cOne of the images that we still see as a headline for Mafalda is that she does not like soup. I read that you used the soup as a metaphor of the Argentine dictatorship. What were the experiences of you and your family there who were forced into exile in Italy? \u201c. \n\nQuino: \u201cWell, we lived there like all our compatriots, very badly. Having to leave your country is very scary, you lose contact with your friends, family and people you love. Today the world is full of migration so there is no need to explain the significance of what that means.\u201d\n\neuronews: \u201cHow do you see the recent evolution of South America?\u201d\n\nQuino: \u201cI watch but I can not seem to understand what is happening. Until five years ago I watched with a greater peace of mind. Today I am very curious to know what will happen in the future.\u201d\n\neuronews: \u201cAnd Europe?\u201d\n\nQuino: \u201cEurope intrigues me as much as Latin America.\u201d\n\neuronews: \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t forget of course you go between Buenos Aires and Madrid and this makes you a privileged spectator.\u201d\n\nQuino: \u201cEurope, which was a cultural beacon for Latin American, is currently in a stage where we do not know if the European Union is finished, or if it will integrate more or disintegrate completely. There are countries who seek independence which I find very serious, countries no, I mean regions. Because I believe that in this time of uncertainty we must unite rather than separate.\u201d \n\neuronews: \u201cReturning to Mafalda\u2019s soup. Now what is Mafalda\u2019s soup, where is the soup of all evil?\u201d \n\nQuino: \u201cMafalda\u2019s soup, today some of it would be the rise of terrorist groups that the West does not know how to handle because the West has never prepared enough to know other cultures well enough, how to treat them and how act in relation to them.\u201d \n\neuronews: \u201cHow do you see the world Quino?\u201d \n\nQuino: \u201cI read the Bible frequently to look for ideas for my cartoons though I\u2019m not religious and I never read with a religious spirit. I think not only have countries committed the same mistakes in the last two centuries, but that human beings have a tendency to wreck what is working well.\u201d \n\neuronews: \u201cWhat do you believe in?\u201d\n\nQuino: \u201cIn the human mind, even if there are periods in which humanity takes retrograde steps such as during Nazism and fascism. Sometimes it succeeds with good things but then after it has the capacity to spoil everything.\u201d","htmlText":"Joaqu\u00edn Salvador Lavado, \u201cQuino\u201d is the first cartoonist to receive a Prince of Asturias Award in the Communications and Humanities category. Quino is the father of Mafalda, born from his pen fifty years ago. Quino has glaucoma and so he cannot continue to draw. Nevertheless, questions and reflections about the young Mafalda have lost none of their striking simplicity.<\/p>\nFrancisco Fuentes, euronews: \u201cWelcome, thanks for joining us.\u201d<\/p>\nQuino. Cartoonist \u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\nEuronews \u201cWhat is the significance of the Prince of Asturias Award for you, what are your thoughts on being awarded it?\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: Asturias Award for Communication laureate: \u201cI am very happy because it is a prize for which I have always had great respect. It has always been awarded to people whose work I love greatly and for whom I have great respect.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cYou are the first comic cartoonist to win the award.\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cYes and not the last.\u201d.<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cDo you think generally cartoonists in the world who are working in the humorous genre are recognised enough?\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cI think so. I think since Umberto Eco conferred a certain category in this kind of comic literature, things are improving a lot for us.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cHow do you see the future of comic cartoons?\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cWe are gong through a technological transition and for now do not know where it will lead. It\u2019s like the e-book. At the beginning there was the fear that this technology would signal the end for paper but that has not happened. So it is difficult to predict the future.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cWould you have used iPad, tablets, twitter in your drawings today?\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cAt the beginning of this new era, I began to amuse myself by drawing with all this new technology, using these terms, most of them in English, and that people use without really knowing what they want say. I think technology will change human relationships. They have already changed quite a lot, but with what is a rather odd handicap: people are linked to thousands of others, but they do not have friends with whom to have a conversation. It is very curious. \u201c<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cLet\u2019s talk a little about Mafalda which is one of the reasons for which we are here in Asturias. She just turned 50 and for several months an exhibition toured the world. Your humorous vignettes, your thoughts are very important. When you started drawing Mafalda did you imagine it would be like this? \u201c<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cNo. I was not expecting anything. I started publishing this character with little thought as to who she was. I had not worked enough before publishing, but at some point I reflected on the question of how to give the character continuity. So I thought it was a good idea for Mafalda to ask her parents questions which they couldn\u2019t answer like: \u201cWhy is there war? Why are people poor? Why do we destroy the world? I found it was a good way to generate interest in Mafalda.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cWhy does the character Mafalda not age, time doesn\u2019t affect her? She has not aged a day, she has transcended time to become eternal.\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cNo. I think the day when readers will rightly realise that in my drawings there is no new technology \u2013 which for me is a big unknown \u2013 then that is when this character will not be of our time and interest will be lost in her.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cSince Mafalda is still valid, it seems that the world has changed very little in the past 50 years.\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cVery little. And it is a great deception on human behavior because it has meant that we continue to make the same mistakes and we have not progressed except in technology.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cWhy is the world always in this state?\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cI think because the economic interests took the place of ideology and political interests. Today there is no ideology and that is very odd for a generation like mine, the generation of 68 and whose motto was power to the imagination. All this was so beautiful and now there is nothing left. \u201c<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cOne of the images that we still see as a headline for Mafalda is that she does not like soup. I read that you used the soup as a metaphor of the Argentine dictatorship. What were the experiences of you and your family there who were forced into exile in Italy? \u201c.<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cWell, we lived there like all our compatriots, very badly. Having to leave your country is very scary, you lose contact with your friends, family and people you love. Today the world is full of migration so there is no need to explain the significance of what that means.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cHow do you see the recent evolution of South America?\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cI watch but I can not seem to understand what is happening. Until five years ago I watched with a greater peace of mind. Today I am very curious to know what will happen in the future.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cAnd Europe?\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cEurope intrigues me as much as Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t forget of course you go between Buenos Aires and Madrid and this makes you a privileged spectator.\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cEurope, which was a cultural beacon for Latin American, is currently in a stage where we do not know if the European Union is finished, or if it will integrate more or disintegrate completely. There are countries who seek independence which I find very serious, countries no, I mean regions. Because I believe that in this time of uncertainty we must unite rather than separate.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cReturning to Mafalda\u2019s soup. Now what is Mafalda\u2019s soup, where is the soup of all evil?\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cMafalda\u2019s soup, today some of it would be the rise of terrorist groups that the West does not know how to handle because the West has never prepared enough to know other cultures well enough, how to treat them and how act in relation to them.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cHow do you see the world Quino?\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cI read the Bible frequently to look for ideas for my cartoons though I\u2019m not religious and I never read with a religious spirit. I think not only have countries committed the same mistakes in the last two centuries, but that human beings have a tendency to wreck what is working well.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews: \u201cWhat do you believe in?\u201d<\/p>\nQuino: \u201cIn the human mind, even if there are periods in which humanity takes retrograde steps such as during Nazism and fascism. 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Our second story focuses on young adults at a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//pages//Yangon-School-of-Political-Science//332409810154072/">groundbreaking political science institute<\/a> which is teaching the art of politics to a new generation emerging from years of repression and censorship under military rule.<\/p>\nThe final story features a determined and publically minded young Argentine whose talent and commitment to public service has earned him recognition at home and and abroad from institutes including <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////www.wise-qatar.org//learners-voice-martin-federico-de-angelis/">the Qatar Foundation.<\/a> He believes the world would be a better place if more young people decided to go into politics.<\/p>\nWatch the video to find out more and let us know what you think via our social media pages.<\/p>\n<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////www.facebook.com//learning.world/">Learning World on 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EN Maradona temper","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Watch: Argentinian idol Maradona slaps journalist in Buenos Aires","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"","summary":"","keySentence":"","url":"watch-argentina-idol-diego-maradona-slaps-journalist-in-buenos-aires","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2014\/08\/12\/watch-argentina-idol-diego-maradona-slaps-journalist-in-buenos-aires","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"This is the moment controversial football star Diego Maradona lost his temper with a journalist during a media scrum in Buenos Aires.\n\nMaradona, 53, slapped the reporter after taking his son, Diego Fernando, to see a children\u2019s play.\n\nIt is not the first time the footballer has been either at the centre of controversy or attack journalists.\n\nHe was jailed for two years and 10 months for firing an air rifle at reporters and photographers outside his Buenos Aires home in 1994.\n\nThree 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He was also sent home from the 1994 World Cup after failing a drugs test for ephedrine.\n\nMaradona\u2019s mood would not have been seemingly lifted by the form of his former side, Boca Juniors. They made a poor start to the Argentine championship at the weekend, losing 1-0 at home to Newell\u2019s Old Boys.\n\nMaradona, Boca\u2019s most famous supporter, has been highly critical of his former team, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s the worst version of Boca I\u2019ve seen in my life.\n\n\u201cThey don\u2019t make three consecutive passes and when they cross the halfway line they resort to crosses.\u201d","htmlText":"This is the moment controversial football star Diego Maradona lost his temper with a journalist during a media scrum in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\nMaradona, 53, slapped the reporter after taking his son, Diego Fernando, to see a children\u2019s play.<\/p>\nIt is not the first time the footballer has been either at the centre of controversy or attacked journalists.<\/p>\nHe was <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////news.bbc.co.uk//2//hi//sport//football//112074.stm/">jailed for two years and 10 months for firing an air rifle at reporters and photographers<\/a> outside his Buenos Aires home in 1994.<\/p>\nThree years earlier he had been banned from football for 15 months after a positive test for cocaine while playing for Napoli. He was also <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////www.independent.co.uk//life-style//after-the-fall-the-world-cup-dream-is-over-for-diego-maradona-but-there-may-be-worse-to-come--a-little-matter-of-pounds-500000worth-of-smuggled-cocaine-and-the-naples-mafia-paul-greengrass-and-toby-follett-report-1411755.html/">sent home from the 1994 World Cup<\/a> after failing a drugs test for ephedrine.<\/p>\nMaradona\u2019s mood would not have been lifted by the form of his former side, Boca Juniors. They made a poor start to the Argentine championship at the weekend, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////www.dailymail.co.uk//sport//football//article-2721740//Marcos-Caceres-suffers-horrific-arm-injury-Newell-s-Old-Boys-clash-Boca-Juniors.html/"> losing 1-0 at home to Newell's Old Boys<\/a>.<\/p>\nMaradona, Boca\u2019s most famous supporter, has been highly critical of his former team, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s the worst version of Boca I\u2019ve seen in my life.<\/p>\n\u201cThey don\u2019t make three consecutive passes and when they cross the halfway line they resort to crosses.\u201d<\/p>\nFor more videos <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//channel//UCSrZ3UV4jOidv8ppoVuvW9Q/">subscribe to our YouTube 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continues its default dance with the 'vultures'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"","summary":"","keySentence":"","url":"argentina-continues-it-default-dance-with-the-vultures","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2014\/07\/31\/argentina-continues-it-default-dance-with-the-vultures","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"With no last-minute deal Argentina is in technical default on repaying some of its debts, which sent supporters of President Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner on to the streets to affirm the country does not negotiate with \u201cvultures\u201d, the term the government uses for the US investment hedge funds at the centre of this dispute. \n\nThe history: after Argentina went bankrupt 12 years ago it couldn\u2019t repay the money it had borrowed, and so restructured its debt.\n\nMost investors agreed to accept new bonds with reduced payments.\n\nBut the hedge funds that bought bonds later from the original owners \u2013 for much less than the face value \u2013 persuaded a US judge they should get all the interest originally due. \n\nLast-ditch talks with those holdout creditors failed to reach an agreement which has a potentially big downside for Argentina.\n\nThe country is already in recession and that is likely to get worse.\n\nArgentinian economic consulting firm Abeceb reckons the default will drag growth down by a further two percent, reducing GDP by 3.5 percent this year, and boost the unofficial inflation rate to 41 percent. \n\nWhat it almost certainly won\u2019t do is trigger the kind of mayhem seen following the crash 12 years ago.\n\nThen, the economy collapsed after the biggest sovereign default in history, there was a deep recession, the currency was devalued, the authorities froze savers\u2019 accounts to halt a run on the banks and dozens were killed in street protests. \n\nThis time the government is solvent, but there will be pain for the people and Argentina is again facing an uncertain financial future. \n\nFor more insight, euronews spoke to economist Rafael Di Giorno in Buenos Aires.\n\nHe works for Proficio Investment and is a former analyst with the Central Bank of Argentina and Deutsche Bank\u2019s former vice president for Latin America. \n\neuronews: \u201cIt\u2019s not good news for Argentina; they didn\u2019t reach an agreement with the US holdouts before the deadline expired. Although Argentina\u2019s government says the country is not in default: what is the real situation?\u201d\n\nRafael Di Giorno: \u201cThe reality is that the rating agencies are considering declaring a default because the bond holders, that\u2019s those who accepted the restructuring of debt in 2005 and 2010, didn\u2019t receive their interest payments. But this is not a \u2018typical\u2019 default, given that Argentina can pay. This money was actually sent to the banks, to Bank of New York Mellon, in Buenos Aires, but a court in New York is blocking the payment.\u201d\n\neuronews: \u201cThere are reports that Argentine private banks will in the end buy the Argentinian bonds from the US holdouts. Is this a plan that has government backing or are they acting independently?\u201d\n\nRafael Di Giorno: \u201cOfficially the government can\u2019t, in principle, hold talks with the holdouts, the hedge funds. Therefore, it is careful not to appear to have a role in these negotiations. This looks like a private initiative, from ADEBA (the Argentinian Banks Association), which represents the interests of private financial entities in the country. They tried to reach an agreement with the holdout bond holders, proposing to put money aside until the end of the year, which is when a clause that prevents the government from negotiating is due to expire. At that time Argentina would be able to negotiate directly with the holdouts.\u201d\n\neuronews: \u201cWill investors now flee Argentina? Will the recession get worse and the people suffer as they did after the default of 2001?\u201d\n\nRafael Di Giorno: \u201cNot at all, the 2001 default was a very serious situation for many other reasons. At that time Argentina\u2019s GDP fell around 11%. A brutal fall. This year all the projections indicate a recession, but around one or two percent. This is much more a \u2018technical default\u2019. Argentina can pay, but there\u2019s a legal problem that is blocking the payments. It\u2019s true that the 2001 default needs to be completely sorted out in order to move forward. But there will not be a massive flight of capital. In fact, in recent years there has not been so much capital inflow. Yes, there will be problems in financing big projects like the one at Vaca Muerta, where the oil company YPF has a big project and it will need external capital.\u201d\n\neuronews: \u201cDoes that mean there will not be problems in the US or Europe because of the Argentinian situation?\u201d\n\nRafael Di Giorno: \u201cNo, I believe there won\u2019t be contagion to other countries because it\u2019s not a \u2018default\u2019, in the sense of a balance of payments crisis, or that the country has no dollars in its reserves. Certainly, that would have a impact on the currency. But I don\u2019t think that is the case here.\u201d","htmlText":"With no last-minute deal Argentina is in technical default on repaying some of its debts, which sent supporters of President Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner on to the streets to affirm the country does not negotiate with \u201cvultures\u201d, the term the government uses for the US investment hedge funds at the centre of this dispute.<\/p>\nThe history: after Argentina went bankrupt 12 years ago it couldn\u2019t repay the money it had borrowed, and so restructured its debt.<\/p>\nMost investors agreed to accept new bonds with reduced payments.<\/p>\nBut the hedge funds that bought bonds later from the original owners \u2013 for much less than the face value \u2013 persuaded a US judge they should get all the interest originally due.<\/p>\nLast-ditch talks with those holdout creditors failed to reach an agreement which has a potentially big downside for Argentina.<\/p>\nThe country is already in recession and that is likely to get worse.<\/p>\nArgentinian economic consulting firm Abeceb reckons the default will drag growth down by a further two percent, reducing GDP by 3.5 percent this year, and boost the unofficial inflation rate to 41 percent.<\/p>\nWhat it almost certainly won\u2019t do is trigger the kind of mayhem seen following the crash 12 years ago.<\/p>\nThen, the economy collapsed after the biggest sovereign default in history, there was a deep recession, the currency was devalued, the authorities froze savers\u2019 accounts to halt a run on the banks and dozens were killed in street protests.<\/p>\nThis time the government is solvent, but there will be pain for the people and Argentina is again facing an uncertain financial future.<\/p>\nFor more insight, euronews spoke to economist Rafael Di Giorno in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\nHe works for Proficio Investment and is a former analyst with the Central Bank of Argentina and Deutsche Bank\u2019s former vice president for Latin America.<\/p>\neuronews:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s not good news for Argentina; they didn\u2019t reach an agreement with the US holdouts before the deadline expired. Although Argentina\u2019s government says the country is not in default: what is the real situation?\u201d<\/p>\nRafael Di Giorno: \u201cThe reality is that the rating agencies are considering declaring a default because the bond holders, that\u2019s those who accepted the restructuring of debt in 2005 and 2010, didn\u2019t receive their interest payments. But this is not a \u2018typical\u2019 default, given that Argentina can pay. This money was actually sent to the banks, to Bank of New York Mellon, in Buenos Aires, but a court in New York is blocking the payment.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews:<\/strong> \u201cThere are reports that Argentine private banks will in the end buy the Argentinian bonds from the US holdouts. Is this a plan that has government backing or are they acting independently?\u201d<\/p>\nRafael Di Giorno:<\/strong> \u201cOfficially the government can\u2019t, in principle, hold talks with the holdouts, the hedge funds. Therefore, it is careful not to appear to have a role in these negotiations. This looks like a private initiative, from ADEBA (the Argentinian Banks Association), which represents the interests of private financial entities in the country. They tried to reach an agreement with the holdout bond holders, proposing to put money aside until the end of the year, which is when a clause that prevents the government from negotiating is due to expire. At that time Argentina would be able to negotiate directly with the holdouts.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews:<\/strong> \u201cWill investors now flee Argentina? Will the recession get worse and the people suffer as they did after the default of 2001?\u201d<\/p>\nRafael Di Giorno:<\/strong> \u201cNot at all, the 2001 default was a very serious situation for many other reasons. At that time Argentina\u2019s GDP fell around 11%. A brutal fall. This year all the projections indicate a recession, but around one or two percent. This is much more a \u2018technical default\u2019. Argentina can pay, but there\u2019s a legal problem that is blocking the payments. It\u2019s true that the 2001 default needs to be completely sorted out in order to move forward. But there will not be a massive flight of capital. In fact, in recent years there has not been so much capital inflow. Yes, there will be problems in financing big projects like the one at Vaca Muerta, where the oil company YPF has a big project and it will need external capital.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews:<\/strong> \u201cDoes that mean there will not be problems in the US or Europe because of the Argentinian situation?\u201d<\/p>\nRafael Di Giorno:<\/strong> \u201cNo, I believe there won\u2019t be contagion to other countries because it\u2019s not a \u2018default\u2019, in the sense of a balance of payments crisis, or that the country has no dollars in its reserves. Certainly, that would have a impact on the currency. 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Just one percent are endangering the agreement that was agreed upon by all the other bondholders. Thank you.\u201d\n\nDespite the tough public stance from both parties the markets believe a deal will be done.","htmlText":"The Argentinian government and two hedge funds involved in a debt restructuring dispute have agreed to meet for a second time with a US court mediator in an attempt to resolve a 12-year legal battle.<\/p>\nThe parties must find a solution to the problem by the end of July or Argentina risks a catastrophic $95bn default.<\/p>\nIn 2002 Argentina was involved in a default, then the world\u2019s biggest,<\/p>\nThe so called \u2018vulture funds\u2019 moved in and bought Argentinian government bonds at rock bottom prices.<\/p>\nArgentina then negotiated a deal to restructure its debt with close to 93 percent of its creditors, except for the holdout investors,that had demanded repayment in full.<\/p>\nIn June a US court ruled Argentina must repay the entire $1.3bn of debt plus interest to the hedge funds.<\/p>\nBuenos Aries refused and attempted to pay only those investors, which agreed to the restructuring.<\/p>\nThe US courts blocked the payments saying Argentina must treat all creditors equally.<\/p>\nArgentine officials have said the country will not pay the holdout investors, arguing it could face potential demands for up to $17bn from others not involved in this case \u2013 an amount representing more than half of the government\u2019s $28.5 billion in foreign currency reserves.<\/p>\nThe dispute has now moved into the court of public opinion with both sides taking out adverts in the world\u2019s major newspapers.<\/p>\nArgentina claims it is being pushed into debt at a time when the country is slipping into recession and accuses the hedge funds of blatant profiteering.<\/p>\nFinance Minister Axel Kicillof insists Argentina wants to repay the debt: \u201cArgentina paid, wants to continue paying under reasonable conditions, under feasible conditions, but we\u2019re facing a situation where we\u2019re not being allowed to do that. Just one percent are endangering the agreement that was agreed upon by all the other bondholders.\u201d<\/p>\nDespite the tough public stance from both parties the markets believe a deal will be done.<\/p>\nEuronews business reporter Vicen\u00e7 Batalla spoke to Fausto Spotorno, Chief Economist with Orlando Ferreres and Associates in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\neuronews:<\/strong> \u201cWhat is the the probability Argentina\u2019s government will again default on its debts as it did in 2001? Will there be an agreement in the US by July the 30th?\u201d<\/p>\nFausto Spotorno:<\/strong> \u201cI think the likelihood of Argentina defaulting is very small \u2013 very very small. The reality is that no country is going to commit this kind of financial suicide. A default would not suit Argentina, it would not suit the holdouts, it wouldn\u2019t suit any body. And it doesn\u2019t seem too difficult to find a solution. It is technically complex, but from a political point of view it doesn\u2019t seem too complicated.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews:<\/strong> \u201cAnd does Argentina have sufficient reserves to pay, we\u2019re talking $15 billion, including interest?\u201d<\/p>\nFausto Spotorno:<\/strong> \u201cIn cash, no. Argentina\u2019s reserves right now are a little over $29 billion. Using $15 billion to pay for this lawsuit would be too much.<\/p>\n\u201cThe figures we have are: there\u2019s $1.5 or $1.6 billion from this particular law suit. Then there\u2019s another $10 billion worth that\u2019s the subject of legal proceedings now, and can be quickly sorted out in the way that this solution has been reached.<\/p>\n\u201cIn addition there is still five billion dollars which is not yet the subject of legal proceedings in New York, or that has not even presented for swaps \u2013 debt exchanges. Out of the $17 billion at current values, only fifteen billion will be subject to a final judgement and receive one hundred percent of the value of the bonds.<\/p>\n\u201cAs Argentina doesn\u2019t have the cash reserves, it will have to issue some sort of debt, or find someone to finance Argentina paying out these judgements. In fact, just the rumor that Argentina is currently resolving the problem of the holdouts made the bonds rise and the interest rates fall.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews:<\/strong> \u201cThis is happening exactly when Argentina is not in a very good economic state. Do you think the stance taken by President Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez is the most appropriate?\u201d<\/p>\nFausto Spotorno:<\/strong> \u201cNo, I don\u2019t think so. I think this default situation has been mismanaged since 2001 when it started up until now. Argentina made a mistake when it announced a default without being legally ready to deal with it.<\/p>\n\u201cThen, it waited too long to offer a first swap (debt restructuring) and when it eventually did a first swap it was only accepted by 76 percent of debt holders.<\/p>\n\u201cFor those bonds \u2013 that required 100 percent repayment \u2013 I think that was very low. In fact, all these hedge funds that launched legal proceedings and won against Argentina, are funds that bought the bonds after the first swap. If Argentina had managed the first swap in 2005, better than it did, probably what happened later would not have occurred.\u201d<\/p>\neuronews:<\/strong> \u201cOne last question that I have to ask, as Argentina has reached the final of the World Cup, if the team wins, will that have a beneficial effect on the country\u2019s economy?\u201d<\/p>\nFausto Spotorno:<\/strong> \u201cNo. This can help the president\u2019s image \u2013 for at the most a month! 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Tango is synonymous with sensuality, seduction, and eroticism.<\/p>\n\u201cIt takes two to tango\u201d, says dancer and teacher Jorge Firpo. \u201cTwo people dancing in an embrace. There\u2019s a code whereby the man leads and invites the woman to make certain movements. But the man also has to take into consideration the woman\u2019s pace. There has to be a harmonic communion, communication of the bodies.\u201d<\/p>\nJust like Jorge Firpo, Aurora Lubiz has been a dancer and a choreographer for almost 30 years.<\/p>\nImprovisation, creativity, imagination would you think be three keys to being a good tanguero. In actual fact, for Aurora the secret is elsewhere.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is the secret,\u201d she confides. \u201cWhen I first went to a milonga a wonderful dancer told me: \u2018Aurora, to dance tango you have to walk the way you walk in life, this is the only thing you need to do, and you have to think of the human being who\u2019s embracing you\u2019.<\/p>\nA sad thought that can also be danced\u201d \u2013 this is one of the many definitions of tango. For Aurora it\u2019s more than just that. \u201cI think it\u2019s many different thoughts that can be danced: sad, or happy thoughts, thoughts of betrayal, of suffering, of encounters, of goodbye\u2019s\u2026 life!\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWhen I manage to open my heart, to open up my body, and I encounter another human being, there, I think, lies the magic of tango. The encounter of two human beings happens as you\u2019re looking deep into each other\u2019s eyes \u2013 and then you\u2019re making love!\u201d<\/p>\nTango began to evolve at the end of the 19th century, based on the dances of former African slaves.<\/p>\nLocal peasants drawn to the city, petty criminals living in the drab outskirts, and Italian and Spanish immigrants crammed into the port\u2019s tenement blocks were those who took the first steps of a dance that would soon rhyme with Argentina, and passion.<\/p>\nToday hundreds of thousands of tango buffs cultivate that passion in the milongas, determined to master its secrets.<\/p>\n\u201cWe Argentinians are very attached to our neighbourhood, to the local caf\u00e9 or bar, where we meet to discuss football or politics\u2026 we try to sort out the world\u2019s problems. There are places and topics such as family, parents, mothers, childhood friends that the poet, the lyrics writer, tells us about in tango songs. 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The ICC is the first permanent court ever created to try war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and aggression. He made \u200b\u200bhis international reputation by acting as a prosecutor in the trial of the Argentinean military junta. He recently handed the baton to Gambian Fatou Bensouda . Euronews talked to him before he left The Hague.<\/p>\nRaquel \u00c1lvarez, euronews: Luis Moreno Ocampo, you\u2019re relinquishing your position as Chief Prosecutor, of the International Criminal Court, just as the ICC reaches it\u2019s tenth anniversary. Have you accomplished what you\u2019d hoped?<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: I think so. The Court is the Nuremburg court for the future. We launched it, made it work and now it continues to work. So yes, we did complete a cycle, a phase.<\/p>\neuronews: You\u2019ve talked about your memories of starting off with only three people working in your office. How has everything changed since then?<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: I came when there were 18 judges waiting for my inquiries. There were three employees in my office. We had six empty floors, everything had to be built up, invented. Fatou Bensouda will take charge of the bureau with 300 people working in it. There are clear and efficient working procedures. There are lots of ongoing judgements and the office is working at its best.<\/p>\neuronews: You know who\u2019s going to replace you: you\u2019ve both worked very closely: she\u2019s a woman and she\u2019s African. What challenges do you think she\u2019ll face?<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: Fatou inherits a well equipped office, but she\u2019ll also inherit a world that is much more conscious about the power of Law and that might work against us. Her being a woman represents an interesting aspect because this is a new world where being a woman offers new perspectives. At present, there are lots of women with power, I think that if they connect with each other, it could produce an extremely interesting alternative.<\/p>\neuronews: The ICC started off with limitations when the USA, Russia and China didn\u2019t sign the Statute of Rome. This is an essential framework of the Court, and so they aren\u2019t forced to recognise the work of the ICC. Is this a limit of its legitimacy?<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: No, on the contrary: the most powerful countries not being part of the ICC is in itself, a sign of the ICC\u2019s legitimacy. The court is there to protect the weak, not the strong. The powerful countries who haven\u2019t signed up, is proof the court works. It\u2019s a matter of time. When I started everyone was hostile towards us. Two years later the Security Council accepted to put the Darfur case before the Court. Last year they voted unanimously for the court to intervene in Libya \u2013 so things are changing. We\u2019ve been accepted. The ones who don\u2019t work with the ICC prove the court is working. The reason why they don\u2019t is fear. So, their absence shows how legitimate the Court is.<\/p>\neuronews: The strongest criticism you\u2019ve received is about your \u201cgeographical distribution\u201d. All your open cases are in Africa..<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: When president Bashir was prosecuted for genocide, he tried to justify himself by saying we were focusing on Africa too much. It\u2019s incredible: people seemed to believe him: journalists asked me about this \u201cdeviation\u201d over Africa, and not about Darfur. The problem is that president Bashir has been accused of genocide in Darfur. But now, I no longer talk about Africa, I only mention it when talking about the genocide in Darfur.<\/p>\neuronews: The Al Bashir case is also an example of the challenges the Court faces: For example, the Sudanese president was able to move freely through different countries without arrest.<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: This challenge, regarding the Countries, is for the Security Council. It\u2019s up to them to find a way. At the moment Bashir is a fugitive. Malawi for example denied him entering their country. Lots of other countries denied him as well. He goes where he is safe from arrest. He chooses where to go very carefully. Anyway, the Court for Yugoslavian war crimes put 161 people on trial. Do you know how many of them were caught? 50%? 20%? How many do you think?<\/p>\neuronews: How many?<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: All of them. No one escaped. It took eighteen years. The last one, Ratko Mladic, was arrested a few months ago. But in the end we got him. So Bashir will be arrested one day. In the meantime women are getting raped and children are dying of starvation. This is the price.<\/p>\neuronews: The ICC doesn\u2019t have its own police force, or army to investigate and carry out inquiries and arrests in the countries who do not collaborate. Are you putting your collaborators in danger? Four people working for the ICC have been imprisoned in Libya, what happened? Are they in danger?<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: Security is a big subject for all of us and I am proud of it. The Prosecution office made more than 600 missions worldwide and no investigators or witnesses were ever injured. Now the problem is that people from the public defence have been temporarily arrested in Libya. It proves that people who work for the Court run risks on a daily basis.<\/p>\neuronews: As far as I can see, Libya was a milestone, due to the unanimous decision of the Security Council. So what was your reaction towards the lynching and death of Gaddafi?<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: The whole world reacting and asking for justice on the Libyan case, is evidence of a global evolution. The court was able, in a few months, to investigate and prove both Muhamar Gaddafi\u2019s, and his sons crimes. The fact that Gaddafi was executed without a judgement is not good. Nevertheless, the two other people were arrested. They are under our control. Now the problem is who is going to judge them? An easier question. Justice will be done. We only have to decide who will be doing it.<\/p>\neuronews: I think it must be frustrating for you to see the same things happen again and again \u2013 with the Arab revolts, like what\u2019s happening in Syria. Only this time the Security Council hasn\u2019t asked you to open an investigation.<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: Nothing is frustrating for me. Everything is a fascinating apprenticeship. Being a prosecutor was a great privilege, not a frustration. Victims are the ones who are frustrated. Now it surprises me, that the world is talking about why the ICC hasn\u2019t intervened in Syria. Nine years ago nobody would ever think it could be possible for a Court to act in such conflicts. So, if we look at this, we realise the great changes that have taken place. The world has changed. Expectations are different and now there are institutions that can give answers to these expectancies. Our being charged with the Syria case is up to the Security Council.<\/p>\neuronews: These last few months have been very important for you: In December for the first time a head of State was on trial facing the Court, the Ivorian president Gbagbo. Then, in march, the court announced its first guilty sentence against the Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga.<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: This is the result of what we\u2019ve been doing for nine years. It\u2019s the end of nine years of work. The truth is that we can\u2019t fail. We can\u2019t fail with Thomas Lubanga, and we can\u2019t fail with Gbagbo. At the beginning they said: \u201cthey are just dealing with militias\u201d. Now three heads of State are on trial. They say: \u201cwe only pay attention to Africa\u201d. Well we\u2019ll keep going\u2026<\/p>\neuronews: Someone you wanted to collaborate with as an adviser is Balrtasar Garz\u00f2n, a very well known Spanish prosecutor. At present, he keeps being suspended from his role in Spain. What\u2019s your reaction to the accusations and condemnation that provoked his suspension?<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: I asked Garz\u00f3n to come and help us because he spent his whole life investigating people in the establishment, powerful people, and now he\u2019s paying for that. So I can say yes, if you investigate or if you judge powerful people you put yourself in danger. This is why the ICC is sometimes criticised.<\/p>\neuronews: You said the umpire is always unpopular.<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: Of course he is. Look at a the Barcelona \u2013 Real Madrid football match, everybody makes accusations against the referee. And, that\u2019s interesting, because fair play doesn\u2019t just depend on the referee. For this reason, the ICC is not sufficient to avoid violence. The players have to respect the rules.<\/p>\neuronews: As an Argentinean you really do like your football.<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: Of course.<\/p>\neuronews: FIFA has asked you to stop corruption in football. Will you accept this as your new job? It would be interesting to see you try something different.<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: There is a reform committee inside FIFA that proposed FIFA create an ethical commission with powers of inquiry and they recommended me. So it\u2019s up to them. FIFA can choose someone else. Nothing is certain. Let\u2019s wait and see.<\/p>\neuronews: So what if FIFA say yes?<\/p>\nLuis Moreno Ocampo: If Fifa offer me this position then I\u2019ll deal with it then. When I was a lawyer in Argentina, I was in charge of reforming corrupt organisations. It was part of my former job. This is the reason why, I think, FIFA\u2019s reform committee suggested me. Let\u2019s see what happens. 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He is an artist who can turn an opera into a pop event. And in Buenos Aires recently more than 120,000 people turned out for his comeback \u2013 a three hour show of arias, traditional songs and tango.<\/p>\n\u201cBuenos Aires, and Argentina in general, are very cultivated, musically speaking,\u201d Domingo told euronews. \u201cThe Teatro Col\u00f3n is one of the greatest in the world, and it\u2019s just been refurbished. It boasts a huge tradition, with famous conductors, like Toscanini, and later Kleiber, and also many great singers, like Caruso, or Gigli.\u201d<\/p>\nIt has been 13 years since Domingo last performed in Buenos Aires, the city where Carlos Gardel grew up. And the concert paid tribute to that King of Tango.<\/p>\nDomingo also recalled tales of the tenor Caruso who would stop at Teatro Col\u00f3n while on tour.<\/p>\n\u201cThere are stories of how Caruso came to sing here and, while boarding the ship that would take him back to Europe, someone approached him and said: \u2018Please stay. We can offer you three more performances!\u2019 Those were days when time didn\u2019t count as much as today, time was something undefined; today we are governed by airline timetables, and unfortunately there\u2019s very little time left for improvising.\u201d<\/p>\nNowadays Domingo is equally known as a conductor, and he could not resist picking up the baton for the overture of Verdi\u2019s \u2018La forza del destino\u2019 which marked his debut in Buenos Aires almost 40 years ago.<\/p>\nAnd though there are few corners of the world he has not visited, Domingo admits he has preferences.<\/p>\n\u201cI miss Spain, Mexico, and Spanish speaking countries because, there, life is very different,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m quite a punctual, disciplined person, but sometimes a certain lack of discipline can work wonders.<\/p>\n\u201cThere are times when everything falls into the right place at the very last minute, when everyone gives their best when it\u2019s almost too late.<\/p>\n\u201cYou could say: \u2018Pl\u00e1cido, aren\u2019t you keen on accuracy and precision?\u2019 And yes, I do like precision, but the ability to improvise is something I admire. 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