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Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner reinforced today, through her Twitter account, that her government is building an Argentina, in which "the human, social and economic rights, go hand in hand for the very first time."  

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said that a country where human, social and economic rights go hand in hand is being built, when inaugurating the new Library of the National School of the La Plata National University (in Spanish, Biblioteca del Colegio Nacional de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata) that bears the name of "Madres de Plaza de Mayo." 

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. President of the United States Barack Obama sent a letter to Argentine Chief of State, through which he congratulated Argentina on the anniversary of the May Revolution.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. Interior and Transport Minister, Florencio Randazzo announced works to be carried out in the Belgrano Cargas train line. They include investments in tracks and coaches, reactivation of branch lines to Bolivia and Chile and the renewal of the Tumbúes port access in Rosario.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. The Upper Chamber debates today in special session, the bill that encourages the voluntary foreign currency exteriorization through several financial instruments. It involves the creation of tax-free certificates, the Real Estate Investment Deposit (CEDIN) and the Argentine Bonds for Economic Development (BAADE).

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. The Government ordered the setting-up of the "Begrano Cargas y Logística Sociedad Anónima" society, under the control of the Transport Ministry, which is aimed at providing service and commercial exploitation of Ferrocarril General Belgrano.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. About 50 inspectors of the federal tax bureau AFIP raided eight offices which belong to the multinational Dart Sudamericana, as part of an investigation on alleged billing maneuvers and capital flight.  

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. The Trade Secretariat and the United Supermarkets Association (ASU, in Spanish) agreed to freeze prices of 500 fast-moving consumer goods, with values of last February.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. Martín Sabbatella, head of the Federal Audiovisual Communication Services Agency (AFSCA), asserted that the decree signed by Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri to protect the freedom of the press within its jurisdiction “is unconstitutional” and “has no legal grounds.”

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013.The President of Argentine Radio and Television Tristán Bauer played down the criticism to the new transmission schedule of the last football game in Sunday day and remarked that "it is something that we are analyzing almost one year ago", asserted that "the football at night it is not a novelty."

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. Consumption was one of the pillars of the economic model established in 2003 by the former president Néstor Kirchner, and throughout the decade it has maintained as one of the main driving force of the economy growth, starting from improvements in salaries and pensions as well as due to the Universal Allowance per Child.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. Sales abroad have increased from US$ 26.5 billion to more than US$ 84.2 billion since 2003. Thus, Argentine exports were tripled during the last decade, with a 15 percent year-on-year growth.  

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. Social Welfare Minister of the Nation, Alicia Kirchner, and Foreign Minister, Héctor Timerman agreed to boost and to generate business for the Network of Entrepreneurs of Our Land ( Emprendedores de Nuestra Tierra, in Spanish) , by means of the Argentine diplomatic representations  worldwide.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. Rio Negro Tourism Minister, Angel Rovira Bosch, anticipated today a “very important” winter season. He also said that the hotel occupancy levels in San Carlos de Bariloche and the Cordillera would be higher than last year.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 22, 2013. The Government made official the law that sets November 8 of every year as the “National Day of the Afro-Argentines and of the Afro Culture."  

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 21, 2013. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is to inaugurate the new building of the Colegio Nacional de la Universidad Nacional de la Plata's library in an act in which the name “Mothers of Plaza de Mayo" is to be held.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 21, 2013. The Foreign Office informed this morning that it did not receive yet "any formal notification" of the Iranian authorities on the approval of the Memorandum of Understanding encouraged to favor the advance of the judicial investigation on the attack to the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires.  

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 21, 2013. Vice President Amado Boudou asked for "a new international financial architecture" focused on “the need to change the adjustment policies", when giving a speech at the Doha Forum.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 21, 2013. Judge Osvaldo Otheguy, for contentious administrative and tax proceedings, issued a preventative measure against the Mayor Mauricio Macri’s decree that “protects the press freedom”.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 21, 2013. The President of the Financial Information Unit (UIF), José Sbatella, affirmed that the bill of undeclared dollarized capitals exteriorization the Government sent the Parliament "doesn't write off crimes that are not evasion ones", and he was optimist expecting that the bill receives the seal of approval of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).