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Wednesday's Senate vote was a significant victory for the growing feminist movement in Latin America, and it is likely that its ripple effects are widespread.

Friday, abortion rights advocates are celebrating outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as Argentina's lower house passes a bill that would legalize abortion.

The Fernández government tabled an improved offer to bondholders last week after carefully analysing counteroffers presented by some of the bondholders.

They argue that the government has been abusing the national quarantine that it declared to contain the Covid-19 outbreak.

Vincetín is Argentina’s sixth largest agricultural exporter. However, the locally owned firm filed for bankruptcy last year after its finances were deeply impacted.

Fernández bring the financially troubled firm under government control to ensure its survival will cause more harm than good to the national economy.

The economic toll of the strict quarantine measures implemented to contain the spread of coronavirus has prompted criticisms.

Private enterprise and determination to control key economic sectors for this failure, raising concerns that the Fernández administration’s economic policy is becoming increasingly radicalised.

The political opposition complains that this is not an immediate priority given that the country is still struggling with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

It argues that the counteroffer was made to its own “final” debt restructuring offer, and that there is no room for manoeuvre.

An enormous effort to flatten the curve of the pandemic and prevent its spread to the rest of Argentina. This effort appears to have fallen short.

Despite the government’s rejection, the counter-proposal has brought the two sides closer than ever, making a no-deal scenario look less likely.

Threshold required to reach a global agreement, increasing its leverage over some of the larger bondholders such as Black Rock, US investment management firm.

Solá explained that there is a fear that if Claver-Carone became IDB president, loan decision would be mostly based on ideology.

The Fernández government is still engaged in high stakes negotiations with the country’s two largest bondholder groups, the Ad Hoc Group and Argentina Exchange.

The protests point to growing social dissent and polarisation in the country that could create problems for the efforts by the Partido Justicialista.

The move adds further weight to reports that Argentina hopes to isolate and heap pressure on the more stubborn bondholders that have so far rejected its offer.

The recent attacks come against the backdrop of an increase in the export tax on soybeans and its intervention in the agricultural export firm Vicentin.

These problems include the various corruption cases concerning former president and incumbent vice president Cristina Fernández.