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Argentina's president Macri's party alliance Cambiemos, or Let's Change, wins in 5 of Argentina's largest electoral districts, becoming the first to do so since 1985. The opposition under former president Christina Kirchner remains divided. Though Macri's bloc in parliament is still a minority bloc, it gained a significant number of seats in the midterm elections, increasing the prospects for reforms in labor, tax, and pensions proposed by Cambiemos. Though Chrisitna Kirchner won a seat in parliament in the election the Peronist Party she leads remains a much weaker force today. For a decade after the Argentine financial crisis the Kirchners remained popular following a rejection of international creditors,  now the opinion has shifted about the Peronist party, and the direction of the country has shifted towards integration in the world economy. Under Macri a settlement was reached with international creditors so that Argentina can get new international financing. ...

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Depreciation of Argentina's currency, the peso, by about 30% in 2013-2014, and high inflation, is leading to labor unrest over wages.

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Argentina's president Kirchner announces plan to nationalize the country's oil company Repsol YPF.

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Preserving forest areas is a key part of the climate change prevention plan. DW.com gives these video images of a vast forest area in South America- the Gran Chaco that is spread over Argentina and Brazil that faces destruction over time. Deforestation is taking place in the Argentine Chaco at an estimated 250,000 acres per year for 2001 to 2007 according to one estimate. The Gran Chaco that runs into the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso de Sul state is one of the last frontiers of forested areas in the world. If the Climate Change resolution passed at the recent conference on preserving forests is taken seriously this area needs to be preserved.