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BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - MARCH 18: Argentine Defence Minister Luis Petri, Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona, Human Capital Minister Sandra Pettovello and Presidency Spokesman Manuel Adorni attend an event to mark the 32nd anniversary of the terrorist attack to the Israeli Embassy on March 18, 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1992, a car bomb detonated in front of the diplomatic headquarters, claiming the lives of 29 people and injuring more than 200. President Milei became the first national leader to attend this tribute in more than two decades. (Footage by Marina Diksaitis/Getty Images)

A GRANDMOTHER, 81, WAS ATTACKED BY HER DAUGHTER'S PIT BULL.

TAPE_NUMBER: EF00/0417 IN_TIME: 19:07:11 // 20:33:28 - 21:42:57 LENGTH: 01:59 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: No access Internet FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: Spanish/Nat The bodies of three anti-drug police agents have been found in Mexico. It is thought their deaths could be a warning message by the powerful drug cartel the men were investigating. The bodies of the three anti-drug officers were reportedly bruised and battered. The bodies were found dead in Baja California state. The men were investigating the powerful Arellano Felix Brothers' cartel. The gang's territory is said to include Baja California and three other Pacific Coast states. Their bodies were found along the Rumorosa Highway that links the border city of Tijuana with Mexicali, the state capital of northern Baja California. Mariano Herran Salvatti, head of the anti-drug unit at the attorney general's office said the deaths may have been a message to authorities. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) "Their bodies were found near kilometre 59 in the road between Tijuana and Mexicali." SUPER CAPTION: Mariano Herran Salvatti, Anti-Drugs Special Officer Herran Salvatti said the battered bodies of the agents were found Tuesday evening in their white Chevrolet van, which had overturned on an embankment along the highway that runs just south of the Mexico-U-S border. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) "The bodies were found inside a vehicle on a steep verge. This morning they have been taken to the forensic hospital in the city of Mexicali." SUPER CAPTION: Mariano Herran Salvatti, Anti-Drugs Special Officer The agents have been identified as Oscar Poma Plaza, Jose Luis Patino Moreno, and Captain Rafael Torres Bernal. All three were members of Herran Salvatti's unit and had been probing the activities of the Arellano Felix cartel. The cartel is considered one of the largest and most violent in Mexico. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) "The men were investigating the following issues: the organization of the brothers Felix, the investigation of Jesus Labra Aviles, the homicide of Gustavo Galvez Reyes as already laid out in our federal courts, and the on-going investigation of drug trafficking organizations." SUPER CAPTION: Mariano Herran Salvatti, Anti-Drugs Special Officer The exact cause of death was unknown pending an autopsy, but the bodies bore no signs of having been shot. The three agents were concentrating on gathering evidence against Jesus Labra Aviles who is suspected of being a major figure in the drug cartel. Labra was recently placed under house arrest on a court warrant pending formal charges for racketeering, drug trafficking and money laundering. Gustavo Galvez Reyes, his lawyer, was found dead on March 15 in Mexico City, with his hands and feet tied and a plastic bag covering his head. The agents' slayings are the latest in a series of apparently drug-related homicides in Mexico in recent weeks. SHOTLIST: Mexico City, April 12 XFA 1. Wide of lawyer building 2. Set up shot 3. Journalists 4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Mariano Herran Salvatti, Anti-Drugs Special Officer 5. Cutaway 6. Distributing photos 7. Various photos of bodies 8. Press 9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Mariano Herran Salvatti, Anti-Drugs Special Officer 10. Wide of room 11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Mariano Herran Salvatti, Anti-Drugs Special Officer 12. Press 13. Leaving?

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - MARCH 18: (L-R) Argentine Presidency Spokesman Manuel Adorni, Human Capital Minister Sandra Pettovello, Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona and Defence Minister Luis Petri listen to commemorative sirens during an event to mark the 32nd anniversary of the terrorist attack to the Israeli Embassy on March 18, 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1992, a car bomb detonated in front of the diplomatic headquarters, claiming the lives of 29 people and injuring more than 200. President Milei became the first national leader to attend this tribute in more than two decades. (Footage by Marina Diksaitis/Getty Images)

--SUPERS--
Sabado

Jorge Luis Përez Valery
Caracas

18 de noviembre de 2017

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 <tab />ANTONIO LEDEZMA YA ESTÁ EN MADRID.
EL JEFE DEL GOBIERNO ESPAÑOL MARIANO RAJOY LE DIO LA BIENVENIDA AL ALCALDE METROPOLITANO DE CARACAS, RECIBIÉNDOLO EN EL PALACIO DE LA MONCLOA.
EL GOBIERNO DE VENEZUELA DETUVO AL POLÍTICO OPOSITOR DE 62 AÑOS EN FEBRERO DE 2015 BAJO ACUSACIONES DE ESTAR INVOLUCRADO EN UNA CONSPIRACIÓN PARA DERROCAR AL PRESIDENTE NICOLÁS MADURO.
SU FUGA FUE COMO DE PELÍCULA. LEDEZMA DIJO QUE FUE UNA TRAVESÍA DE MÁS DE 24 HORAS EN LAS QUE PASÓ POR 29 PUNTOS DE REVISIÓN Y RETENES, TOMANDO TODO TIPO DE RIESGOS, HASTA LLEGAR A COLOMBIA DE DONDE TOMÓ UN VUELO COMERCIAL A MADRID.
JORGE LUIS PEREZ VALERY TIENE MAS DETALLES DESDE CARACAS.



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JEl reconocido alcalde metropolitano de Caracas Antonio Ledezma concluyó este sábado su periplo de más de 24 horas para escapar de la prisión domiciliaria que cumplía aquí en la capital venezolana. Finalmente ha llegado a España al aeropuerto internacional de Barajas donde su esposa Mitzy de Ledezma y sus hijas Antonieta y Mitzy recibieron en el lugar. También ha sostenido un encuentro el alcalde venezolano con el presidente del Gobierno español Mariano Rajoy y en el que discutieron la situación política y económica de Venezuela aseguraba Ledezma luego de su encuentro que debían reforzarse los esfuerzos internacionales por conseguir una solución a la crisis que agobia al pueblo venezolano. También el alcalde Ledezma compartió con los medios de comunicación lo que fue esta travesía de tantas horas para atravesar prácticamente la mitad del territorio venezolano para poder llevar llegar a salvo hasta territorio colombiano asegura que han sido más de 29 puestos de seguridad que pudo esquivar y que además contó con el apoyo según sus palabras de algunos militares venezolanos. Ha dicho el Gobierno venezolano en voz del presidente Nicolás Maduro que Antonio Ledezma se ha ido en palabras del presidente a vivir la buena vida a España y que esperaba que no lo regresaran al país. No ha sido ese mismo el tono de la Cancillería venezolana una serie de tuits el canciller Jorge Arreaza expresó en un comunicado que el Gobierno de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela rechazaba lo que ha sido el encuentro del alcalde Ledezma con las autoridades españolas precisamente con el presidente del Gobierno español Mariano Rajoy por considerar que se trata de un prófugo de la justicia venezolana que debe afrontar acusaciones de conspiración y asociación para delinquir.
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NAME: SPA CAND2 140304N TAPE: EF04/0301 IN_TIME: 11:13:54:17 DURATION: 00:04:33:04 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Madrid, 14 March 2004 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar with his wife walking into polling station, he shakes hands with election officials 2. Aznar and his wife waiting 3. Official posts both their votes, gives them back their identity cards, they shake hands with the officials and walk away 4. Exterior - supporters cheering Aznar 5. Interior polling station - Socialist party candidate Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero arriving to vote 6. Various Zapatero votes 7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Socialist Party Candidate for Prime Minister "I want my first words after exercising my right to vote to be for the memory, for affection and solidarity of all the victims and relatives of the barbaric terrorism of last Thursday. Today is a day to commemorate these victims, their families, and commemoration is the civil, democratic, and calm, participation of the immense majority of Spain in the elections, as I think will happen today. And I have the full confidence that, despite difficult times for our country, today a new phase will begin when we will get back lots of confidence as a country and that we will get back a lot of confidence in politics and in institutions." 8. Mariano Rajoy, Ruling Popular Party candidate, entering polling station to vote, protesters heckling him, pan to protesters being thrown out, Rajoy approaches registering desk 9. Officials posts Rajoy''s vote, he shakes hands 10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mariano Rajoy, Partido Popular Candidate for Prime Minister "The only thing I want to say is that today is a very important day. That the Spanish people have the chance to exercise their democratic right and vote to choose their government. They should judge what''s been done for the past few years and show their confidence for the future." 11. Rajoy walking out of polling station 12. Rajoy stood with his wife STORYLINE: Spaniards voted Sunday in general elections thrown wide open by al-Qaida''s reported claim that it staged the Madrid terror attack to punish the government for backing the U.S.-led war in Iraq. When Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar arrived to vote, some bystanders cheered him while others shouted "manipulator." A handful of young protesters screamed "murderer" at the Popular Party''s prime minister candidate Mariano Rajoy as he cast his vote in an elementary school in suburban Madrid. The protesters were moved on by officials at the polling centre. Rajoy declined to comment on the details of the investigation into the bombings. He instead said it was important Spaniards exercise their democratic right and vote on Sunday, despite the pain caused by Thursday''s attacks. Opposition candidate, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, of the Socialist Party, said he thought a new phase was beginning in Spain, in which people would find new confidence in the political system. The first exit polls later on Sunday ight showed the ruling Popular Party possibly losing about two dozen seats in parliament, most of them going to the Socialists.

--SUPERS--\n:00\nPunta del Este, Uruguay\n\n:12-:21\nPablo Brenner\nOrganizador PuntaTech \n\n:43-1:06\nDiego Oppenheimer\nCEO Algorithmia \n\n1:06-1:28\nZachary Aron\nRepresentante de Deloitte \n\n1:37-1:56\nLuis Alberto Moreno\nPresidente del BID \n\n2:03-2:11\nAntonio Carámbula\nDirector Ejecutivo Uruguay XXI\n\n2:21-2:42 \nMariano Mayer\nSec. Emprendedores y Pymes Argentina \n\n2:50-2:52 \nPablo Brenner\nOrganizador PuntaTech \n\n --LEAD IN--\nSI HAY ALGO QUE CARACTERIZA AL SECTOR EMPRESARIAL Y TECNOLÓGICO ES EL DESAFÍO CONSTANTE.\nPARA ENFRENTARLO DE LA MEJOR MANERA, EN PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY, SE REALIZA EL PUNTA TECH, UN ESPACIO DE NETWORKING EN EL CUAL LOS EMPRENDEDORES, INVERSORES Y EJECUTIVOS DEL MUNDO DE LA TECNOLOGÍA COMPARTEN SUS PROBLEMAS, IDEAS Y PROYECTOS.\nDARÍO KLEIN NOS TRAE LA HISTORIA.\n\n --REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS--\nES VERANO EN SUDAMÉRICA.\nY POR MÁS QUE LAS PLAYAS SEAN EL GRAN ATRACTIVO DE PUNTA DEL ESTE…\nEL PRINCIPAL BALNEARIO URUGUAYO TAMBIÉN ES CENTRO DE UN ENCUENTRO DEL MUNDO TECNOLÓGICO.\nDarío Klein: "¿contame qué es PuntaTech?"\nPablo Brenner, Organizador PuntaTech: "PuntaTech es un encuentro regional de emprendedores y tecnología. Ya llevamos 10 años haciéndolo, donde nos juntamos emprendedores, inversores, empresarios del área de tecnología, todos juntos, un poco a motivarnos entre nosotros, un evento de networking, donde la gente se encuentra que es difícil encontrarse cara a cara en esta sociedad de tanta corrida".\nFRENTE A UNA AUDIENCIA DE TODAS PARTES DEL MUNDO…\nLOS ORADORES EXPONEN SUS IDEAS SOBRE LOS ASUNTOS QUE CONSIDERAN MÁS RELEVANTES.\nDiego Oppenheimer, CEO Algorithmia: "En este momento la inteligencia artificial debe ser una de las áreas de más potencial, crecimiento que existe en el mundo informático. Lo que se ve hoy es una explosión de compañías grandes como Google, Microsoft y Amazon, que realmente han invertido millones y millones de dólares en desarrollar esto porque ellos lo ven también como el futuro. No es una cuestión de que todos los programadores que existen en el mundo van a estar trabajando con inteligencia artificial, sino que ¿cuándo?". \nZachary Aron, Representante de Deloitte: "Lo interesante es que hablamos de conceptos como por ejemplo las cadenas de bloque, de la inteligencia artificial o la robótica. Hablamos de ellos de manera individual, pero en realidad hay que saber qué es lo que sucede cuando los combinamos, y cómo resolvemos los grandes problemas al integrar toda esta tecnología al trabajar en conjunto". \nLA POSIBILIDAD DE CRECIMIENTO ECONÓMICO, GRACIAS A LA TECNOLOGÍA, ES PARA ALGUNOS UNA OPORTUNIDAD QUE LOS GOBIERNOS NO PUEDEN DEJAR PASAR.\nLuis Alberto Moreno, Presidente del BID: "América Latina perdió el tren de la revolución industrial. Y eso nos hizo que demoráramos muchísimo nuestro proceso de desarrollo. Y cuando hoy miramos las estadísticas, en los siguientes 15 años el 50% de los empleos se van a poder automatizar. La pregunta para todos los países es ¿qué hacemos? Y no hay duda de que no tenemos alternativa distinta que montarnos a toda esta revolución tecnológica que está funcionando de manera exponencial".\nASÍ ES COMO DETERMINADOS PAÍSES BUSCAN ESTAR AL DÍA CON LOS CAMBIOS Y NECESIDADES QUE SURGEN EN LA INDUSTRIA TECNOLÓGICA.\nAntonio Carámbula, Director Ejecutivo Uruguay XXI: "Uruguay se ha transformado en un importante receptor de inversiones y exportador de servicios globales. Esta es una buena oportunidad para presentar a la región, a fondos de inversión, a empresas interesadas, presentar la ventaja que tiene Uruguay en este sentido".\nLA ESTRATEGIA A SEGUIR PARECE SER MÁS UNA TAREA EN CONJUNTO QUE UN CAMINO SOLITARIO.\nMariano Mayer, Sec. Emprendedores y Pymes Argentina: "La empresa más grande de Argentina es MercadoLibre. Hoy vale 15 mil millones de dólares. Pero nosotros decimos que es una empresa Argenina brasilera. El dueño y fundador vivió muchos años en Uruguay, tiene oficinas en uruguay, lo mismo Despegar, lo mismo Globant. Es decir, las empresas multinativas - multilatinas en este sector son una realidad, no una planificación. Y ahí los emprendedores se movieron mucho más rápido que lo que nos movemos los gobiernos".\nIDEAS, PROPUESTAS Y DESAFÍOS QUE LOS EMPRENDEDORES, LOS EJECUTIVOS Y LOS INVERSORES DEL MUNDO DE LA TECNOLOGÍA TIENEN EN SU AGENDA.\nPablo Brenner, Organizador PuntaTech: "Yo estoy contento si la gente se va pensando algo, que le cambiamos algo en su manera de pensar. Que de pronto se va con una idea nueva, dicendo "pa, no había pensado en eso". Generalmente es lo que tratamos, que la gente se vaya inspirada con algo nuevo".\nPARA CNN, DARÍO KLEIN. PUNTA DEL ESTE. \n\n -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----\n\n --KEYWORD TAGS--\n\n

NAME: SPA LEADERS 20080309I TAPE: EF08/0267 IN_TIME: 11:05:34:19 DURATION: 00:01:08:22 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Madrid, 9 Mar 2008 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero walking in and voting, walks away STORYLINE: Spaniards were voting on Sunday in a general election overshadowed by a killing blamed on Basque separatists, an attack that evoked memories of the 2004 election in which Islamic militants killed 191 people in bombings aimed at bringing down a conservative government. Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, elected after those attacks, is seeking a second term and is favoured slightly over the conservative Popular Party led by Mariano Rajoy, who lost in 2004. He was filmed voting on Sunday morning with his wife in Madrid. Isaias Carrasco, a former Socialist councilor, was assassinated on Friday outside his home in the Basque town of Mondragon, in a shooting blamed on the militant Basque separatist group ETA. The campaign had been dominated by concerns over the Spanish economy, one of Europe's great success stories with more than a decade of robust growth. But now it is cooling amid rising unemployment and high inflation and an end to a boom in the construction sector, the main engine of growth.

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NAME: SPA REAX 20080307I TAPE: EF08/0263 IN_TIME: 11:10:11:05 DURATION: 00:03:19:17 SOURCES: TVE/AP Photos DATELINE: Various, 7 Mar 2008 RESTRICTIONS: See script SHOTLIST TVE - No Access Spain Mondragon/Arrasate 1. Various of Spain Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero arriving at hotel, meeting with members of Socialist Party and relatives of former city councilman Isaias Carrasco 2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain Prime Minister: "Violent (people) must know strength and democratic convictions are infinitely stronger than the pain of a companion's death, infinitely stronger. If they think with this event they will weaken democracy, they are wrong. If they think this event will make us step back, they are more mistaken. It's been a long time since democracy has won, and violence is an outrageous hindrance, a revolting horror - shooting in cold blood on an honest worker - a horror." TVE - No Access Spain Morales del Toro 3. Popular Party candidate Mariano Rajoy, Zapatero's main rival, arriving at town hall 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mariano Rajoy, Popular Party candidate: "In my name, and in the name of 700-thousand members of my party in all Spain, my solidarity and my sorrow, we are to help them for whatever. Secondly, I would like to say, and I would like to say it calmly and serenely - as someone should talk in moments like these - that Spanish citizens can have an absolute certainty that we are going to beat ETA." 5. Various of demonstration against ETA TVE - No Access Spain Madrid 6. Various of demonstration against ETA AP PHOTOS/Goienkaria ** NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY ** - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile File - 2004 7. STILL of Isaias Carrasco AP PHOTOS/Goienkaria ** NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY ** - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile File - 2003 8. STILL of Isaias Carrasco STORYLINE The killing of a Basque politician two days before general elections threw Spain's political world into turmoil on Friday and conjured memories of the carnage unleashed the last time this nation chose a leader - when an attack by Islamic radicals killed 191 people. This time around, the Basque separatist group ETA was believed to be behind the killing, which brought an early halt to campaigning and left politicians from both main parties scrambling to show solidarity. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero visited the town of Mondragon on Friday and expressed his condolences to the relatives of former city councilman Isaias Carrasco. Carrasco was killed at about 1:30 pm (1230 GMT) in the Basque town of Arrasate, as the politician left the home he shared with his wife and children. Witnesses say the assassin - wearing a false beard - stepped out and fired five shots at the 42-year-old Basque politician, then sped off in a grey car. Authorities say the Socialist politician was hit by at least three of the bullets, including in the head and chest. "Violent (people) must know strength and democratic convictions are infinitely stronger than the pain of a companion's death, infinitely stronger," said Zapatero. "If they think with this event they will weaken democracy, they are wrong. If they think this event will make us step back, they are more mistaken," he told relatives of the victim and members of Socialist Party. Zapatero also said the shooting, executed "in cold blood" was a "revolting horror." There was no claim of responsibility, but the government was quick to blame ETA, which has already set off a series of small bombs ahead of the vote, and killed two Spanish policemen just across the border in France on December 1. Whether voters would punish Zapatero in Sunday's election was not clear. At the very least, the death of Carrasco was a huge setback for the Spanish leader, who tried in vain to reach peace with ETA and has refused to rule out further talks with the group. Meanwhile, Zapatero's main rival, Popular Party candidate Mariano Rajoy, issued a call for unity. But he also took a swipe at the government's efforts to negotiate with ETA, saying the only way to deal with the group was through force. "I would like to say, and I would like to say it calmly and serenely - as someone should talk in moments like these - that Spanish citizens can have an absolute certainty that we are going to beat ETA," Rajoy said. Demonstrations against ETA were held in various parts of the country after the killing.

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<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>Sergio Massa / Javier Milei</p>\n<p>Thursday</p>\n<p>Argentina</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>November 16, 2023</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VIDEO SHOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>Split screen showing candidates Sergio Massa (left) and Javier Milei (right) </p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--CNN INFORMATION</b>--</p>\n<p><b>As Argentina heads to the polls, will a plan to ditch the peso for the dollar be a vote-winner?</b></p>\n<p><b>Analysis by Stefano Pozzebon</b></p>\n<p> CNN -- When voters go to the polls this Sunday to elect Argentina’s next president, they will have to choose not only between two candidates, but between two opposite ideas of what type of country they want to live in.</p>\n<p> That is an old adage in the era of identity politics. Still, it is hardly truer anywhere than in Buenos Aires, where Sergio Massa, the country’s current finance minister and a scion of the political establishment, is squaring off against Javier Milei, a former television pundit who entered politics less than 36 months ago.</p>\n<p> The runoff between Massa, from the government coalition Union por la Patria (Union for the Homeland), and Milei of La Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances), brings to an end a polarizing political campaign that has seen a series of surprising reversals, beginning in August when Milei stunned the country with a victory in a preliminary vote. After a weaker showing in the election’s first round in October, Milei was seen as being on the backfoot; this week he is once again leading in the polls.</p>\n<p> One of the biggest questions now facing voters in this soccer-obsessed nation is: which of these two political polar opposites, both of whom played as goalkeepers in their youth, is the safest pair of hands for an economy currently suffering some of the highest inflation in the world?</p>\n<p> More than 35 million Argentinians will be asked to cast their vote on Sunday on whether they trust Massa to lead the country out of its worst economic crisis of the past two decades through familiar policies that have failed before, or to dive into the unknown with Milei who proposes the radical idea of ditching the Argentinian peso in favor of the US dollar as national currency.</p>\n<p> Argentine law prohibits the publication of opinion polls up to eight days ahead of the vote, but recent results from the past few weeks have shown the candidates almost neck-and-neck, and most analysts believe the election will be close.</p>\n<p> On a personal level, the two candidates could not be more different: Massa is a family man who has dreamt of becoming a politician since he was 11 years old and has spent his career in and out of elected office; Milei lives alone with five English mastiffs – all genetically identical clones from a previous pet – and was elected to Congress in 2021.</p>\n<p> Massa has carefully selected his political alliances to propel his ascent to government, while Milei rose to fame with political stunts, like wielding a chainsaw at rallies, and vowing to unleash a wrecking ball on the administrative class his opponent represents.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>      The Brave New World of Javier Milei</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p> It is Milei who has attracted the most attention this year, not only because of his political style – on top of wielding chainsaws, he’s prone to raging outbursts and has embraced the nickname of ‘The Crazy One’ since climbing in the polls – but also because his proposed reforms would decisively shift Argentina to the right.</p>\n<p> Outside of his controversial plan for dollarization, his political program includes slashing regulations on gun control and transferring authority over the penitentiary system from civilians to the military; both measures part of a tough-on-crime approach.</p>\n<p> Milei proposes using public funds to support families who choose to educate their children privately – as a child he attended a Catholic private school in Buenos Aires – and privatizing the health sector, which in Argentina has always been in public hands in Argentina.</p>\n<p> In recent weeks, Milei triggered an uproar when it appeared he was in favor of opening a market for organ transplants, although he later retracted his declarations.</p>\n<p> He was similarly forced to apologize after calling Pope Francis, who is from Argentina and is seen as an icon of progressive politics in South America, “an envoy of Satan” in 2017. The apology, however, did not stop him from accusing Francis of siding with “bloodthirsty dictators” in an interview with right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson in September.</p>\n<p> At university, Milei studied economics and idolized Milton Friedman, to the point of naming one of his beloved dogs after the free-market theorist.</p>\n<p> But his most controversial proposal concerns public finances, as he plans to drastically cut government spending and, famously, eliminate the central bank and completely dollarize the country.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>      Can Argentina dollarize?</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p> The idea to dollarize is not new – two other nations in Latin America, Ecuador and El Salvador, have dollarized in the past 30 years to combat inflation – but it’s untested in a country as big as Argentina.</p>\n<p> Milei’s pitch is simple: Argentina’s rate of inflation, regularly among the highest in the world, is caused by politicians and central bankers who print new pesos to finance their social programs and electoral promises. As a result, the peso loses value, and everyone gets poorer. To fix the problem, Argentina should abandon the peso and adopt the dollar, whose value is set by the US Federal Reserve and cannot be printed at will.</p>\n<p> The downside of dollarization is that a nation loses the power to influence the economy through monetary policy. For that reason critics of dollarization often refer to it as a straightjacket.</p>\n<p> Because Argentina’s inflation rate is so high – just this week new data revealed prices had risen 142% from 2023 – the proposal has attracted interest from foreign institutions as well.</p>\n<p> In recent months, for example, The Economist, a conservative international publication, warned against the allure of dollarization, arguing that Argentina does not possess enough dollars to finance the currency switch and that the downsides would far outweigh the benefits.</p>\n<p> Conversely, analysts from the Cato Institute, a US-based rightwing economics think tank, favor the move as the only viable strategy to tame what is a decades-long problem.</p>\n<p> In the early 1990s the Argentinian peso was ‘pegged’ to the dollar, which meant its value was fixed to the US currency, but Argentinians would still use pesos for their shopping.</p>\n<p> Inflation came roaring back once the currency was allowed to float.</p>\n<p> Massa has criticized the plan for dollarization as a surrender of national sovereignty and attempted to show that the government’s current actions are already paying dividends.</p>\n<p> While still high – 142% year on year – , inflation in October was 35% lower than in September.</p>\n<p> Other mainstream politicians, including former the President Mauricio Macri and another former election candidate, Patricia Bullrich, have endorsed Milei despite sharing some reservations on dollarization.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>      The world is watching</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p> Interest in this Sunday’s elections goes far beyond Argentina’s borders.</p>\n<p> Abandoning a tradition of non-intervention in another country’s elections, leftwing politicians in the region including Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro and Spain’s José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero have endorsed Massa.</p>\n<p> Milei meanwhile can count on the support of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro, Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa and Spanish conservative former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.</p>\n<p> The stakes are high because a victory for Milei could be seen as a boost for far-right populist politicians like Bolsonaro and former US President Donald Trump just ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, while a win by Massa would be a showcase for center-left policies.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>      What else do you need to know?</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p> Polls close at 6 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) and the vote count is expected to be quick – barring any unforeseen problems or objections, that is.</p>\n<p> Milei appeared to question the results of the first round of voting in October, although his party did not formally appeal.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>SN- ARGENTINA ELECTION JAVIER MILEI SERGIO MASSA </p>\n<p><b>--MUSIC INFO---</b></p>\n<p></p>

Madrid, 6 Jul (EFE).- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Finance Minister Luis de Guindos opened the new headquarters of the Inter-American Development Bank in Madrid on Friday. SHOTLIST: SOUND BITES MARIANO RAJOY AND LUIS DE GUINDOS AND FOOTAGE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OPENING (0:01 to 7:25). EFE TV -Madrid- 16:15 GMT. Spanish PM opens new Inter-American Development on July 09, 2012 in Madrid, Spain (Footage by EFE/Getty Images)

NAME: SPA ELECTION3 20080310I TAPE: EF08/0270 IN_TIME: 11:00:51:14 DURATION: 00:01:27:04 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Madrid, 10 March 2008 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Wide of people walking in street 2. Newspaper stand 3. Man buying newspaper 4. Pan of newspapers at stand 5. Headline on "El Pais" newspaper which reads: (Spanish) "Zapatero repeats victory" 6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vox pop, Madrid resident, young man: "Well I imagine things will continue on the same track as they have done up until now. I don't think there will be great changes but I think that Zapatero has done reasonably well and the result has demonstrated this." 7. Close-up photograph of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on front page of newspaper 8. Headline on "Publico" newspaper which reads: "Zapatero triumphs" 9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vox pop, Madrid resident, middle aged man: "Well for me it's awful, because I voted for the PP, so we have lost. For them it's not good." 10. Newspaper stand 11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vox pop, Madrid resident, young man: "(The result was) very close for some, but in general I think it's good, though especially for the United Left it was a little bit disappointing, but well, it's good, progressive... it shows a progressive Spain." 12. Wide of street scene STORYLINE People on the streets of the Spanish capital Madrid reacted on Monday to the re-election of Spain's governing Socialists. But the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) will once again need the support of smaller parties following an election that left the country deeply divided politically. With 99.9 percent of the vote counted in Sunday's election, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's party won 169 seats against 153 for the conservative opposition Popular Party of Mariano Rajoy.

AP-APTN-2330: SPAIN ECONOMY Sunday, 10 June 2012 STORY:SPAIN ECONOMY- RAJOY WELCOMES EUROZONE OFFER TO BAIL OUT BANKS LENGTH: 02:17 FIRST RUN: 1230 RESTRICTIONS: AP CLIENTS ONLY TYPE: Spanish/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 745187 DATELINE: MADRID - 10 JUNE 2012 LENGTH: 02:17 SHOTLIST 1. Ceiling of venue, tilt down to news conference room 2. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy arriving for news conference 3. Cutaway of cameramen 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mariano Rajoy, Spanish Prime Minister : "If we hadn't done what we have over the last five months what we would have faced yesterday would have been a bailout of Spain. But as we have been five months doing our homework what was put before us and what was decided on was the opening of a line of credit for our financial system." 5. Cutaway of media 6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mariano Rajoy, Spanish Prime Minister : "I am not going to enter into a nominal debate (if it is a bailout or financial assistance). What I would like to say is that Europe is going to put at the disposal of the Spanish financial entities that need it a credit line that the financial institutions will have to return. This is exactly what there is, this has nothing to do with the situation of other countries. This does not have any macroeconomic conditions for our country, there are conditions on the financial entities that have asked for it." 7. Wide of Rajoy at news conference 8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mariano Rajoy, Spanish Prime Minister : "I would like to thank the Spanish people as they understand some of the decisions that we are taking. They have been difficult - hard and complicated but believe me that it is vital that these decisions are taken to get out of this situation. If they would have been taken earlier we probably wouldn't have got to this position." 9. Cutaway of media 10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mariano Rajoy, Spanish Prime Minister : "This is really good for the euro, this is really good for Europe and obviously really good for Spain. This had to be done, there are countries that took this decision three years ago, countries that injected enormous amounts of public money into their financial entities." 11. Rajoy leaving news conference STORYLINE Spain's deep economic misery will get worse this year despite the country's request for a European financial lifeline of up to 100 billion euros (125 billion US dollars) to save its banks, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said at a news conference in Madrid on Sunday. Spain will stay stuck in its second recession in three years, and more Spaniards will lose their jobs in a country where one out of every four are already unemployed, Rajoy told media a day after the country became the fourth and largest of the 17 countries that use the common currency to request a bailout. Rajoy repeatedly refused to call the rescue package a bailout, saying it was a "line of credit" that was different than bailouts taken by Greece, Ireland and Portugal. The lifelines for these countries include strict outside control over public finances but, Rajoy was keen to point out, Spain's does not, emphasising that "this does not have any macroeconomic conditions for our country, there are conditions on the financial entities that have asked for it". Europe's widening recession and financial crisis has hurt companies and investors around the world. Providing a financial lifeline to Spanish banks is likely to relieve anxiety on the Spanish economy, which is five times larger than Greece's, and on markets concerned about the country's ability to pay its way. Rajoy blamed Spain's woes on the previous Socialist administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero without mentioning him or his government by name. Zapatero was ousted by Rajoy in a landslide election win last November by voters outraged over the handling of the economy. Rajoy said he felt confident the bailout was a positive move for both Spain and the eurozone. "This is really good for the euro, this is really good for Europe and obviously really good for Spain. This had to be done, there are countries that took this decision three years ago, countries that injected enormous amounts of public money into their financial entities." Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN (Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) AP-NY-06-10-12 1939EDT

MADRID, SPAIN - FEBRUARY 21: (L-R) Producer Jaume Roures, actors Pilar Castro, Oscar Martinez, Antonio Banderas, directors Gaston Duprat, Mariano Cohn, actors Penelope Cruz, Jose Luis Gomez, Irene Escolar, Nagore Aramburu, Manolo Solo and Koldo Olabarri attend the 'Competencia Oficial' premiere at Capitol Cinema on February 21, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. (Footage by David Benito/Getty Images)