After spending the night at the Alpargatas roundabout the marchers are expected to finish their march around 2 PM in La Plata tomorrow. “So we begin from the Obelisk to La Plata. In Terms Of Unemployment And Poverty, Cabinet Chief SaysBarrios de Pie is a social organization that voices the demands of unemployed people on a national level. Social organization Barrios de Pie once again put its foot down (pun intended) and started a 60-km march from the Obelisco in the heart of the City of Buenos Aires to the Buenos Aires Province capital of La Plata to demand an audience with provincial Governor María Eugenia Vidal. It has staged a number of protests and set up food distribution stations throughout the City of Buenos Aires these last few months to demand government action against swelling poverty numbers.

"It sounded a reasonably upbeat tone, not a big difference from last time, but a reasonably upbeat tone," said Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab and Co. The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday but said near-term risks to the US economic outlook had diminished, opening the door to a resumption of monetary policy tightening this year. The Fed is most likely to wait until December to raise rates, according to a Reuters poll of economists. The US central bank said the economy had expanded at a moderate rate and job gains were strong in June. While Fed policymakers said they continued to closely monitor inflation data and global economic and financial developments, they indicated less worry about possible shocks that could push the US economy off course.

President Mauricio Macri is traveling to Peru today to attend the inauguration of the country’s new president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, which will take place tomorrow morning. Macri will receive Peña Nieto a day after, on July 29th, also in the City of Buenos Aires. Peña Nieto and Macri already met at the World Economic Forum in Davos back in January. Read more: Macri Set To Travel To Peru And Later Meet With Mexican President Peña NietoFollowing tomorrow’s ceremony, Macri will quickly come back to the country to receive Qatari President Emir Hamad bin Khalifa. Macri’s meeting with Kuczynski is another opportunity to strengthen ties with the various members of the Pacific Alliance, a trade bloc comprising Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

Buenos Aires is the place where you want to live. In the neighborhood of Almagro, these apartments increased by as much as 18.1 percent, while they became cheaper in Caballito by -0.3 percent. New three-room (two-bedroom) apartments increased even more in value, with an average of 11 percent throughout the City. In fact the City of Buenos Aires revealed statistics in June that proved that expenses for an apartment in the capital has risen by 39.2 percent in a year’s time. Meanwhile, used three-room apartments increased by 7.5 percent on the whole, with the highest increases in Chacarita (by 24.2 percent) while Colegiales saw a decrease of 4.3 percent.

Read more: Argentines Raid Supermarkets For Oil Ahead Of Price HikesThere is a butter shortage in Argentine supermarkets and the momentary shortage has hiked up prices. While butter is following oil off our supermarket’s shelves, their absences stem from different causes. The president of the Chamber of Small Dairy Businesses, Pablo Villano, has attributed the butter shortage in part to lower prices being paid to producers at the beginning of the year, which discouraged dairy production. Villano also attributed the butter scarcity to the autumn climate in the provinces of Cordoba and Santa Fe, which led to a drop in production and unfortunately, when dairy production drops, butter suffers the most. To avoid this in the future, Villano said that dairy production “will have to be regulated come spring.”However, we may not have to endure too may days of naked toast.

Tonight, Hollywood in Cambodia and POST Bar are hosting the opening gallery show of Buenos Aires native and renowned street artist Ice. The name of his exhibition, “De la A a la Seta” (a riff on “from A to Z”) hints at the subject of the show – in Spanish, “seta” means mushroom – and also suggests the organization of his showpieces. As he is experimenting with a new form of presentation, Ice is also exploring new and varied creative techniques. Through the door, a rooftop lounge with an industrial facade mural-painted in the gaudy surrealism of bare-bones street art. What ties these pieces together is the common use of of a bell-headed shroom, which is something of a symbol for Ice.

The crime known as the Double Murder of Unicenter involved the deaths of two Colombians who belonged to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a paramilitary group linked to drug trafficking. If the gun isn’t a match to the projectiles found at the scene, that suspect list will quickly change. Read more: Football Hooligan Marcelo Mallo Testifies Regarding 2008 Unicenter MurdersJudge Sandra Arroyo Salgado had ordered for the gun, a .40 caliber Tanfoglio, to be processed after it was revealed that a similar gun was used to shoot the projectiles found at the Double Murder scene. Forensic scientists from the Argentine Federal Police (PFA), the Buenos Aires Police Force and the defendant’s forensic team began analyzing it on Friday and the results will be announced today. Last night, new forensic studies revealed that a gun found in barra brava (hooligan) Marcelo Mallo’s possession was allegedly not used in the murders of two Colombian drug traffickers in 2008, known as the Double Murder of Unicenter (after the shopping mall where the murders took place).

The killing of 85-year-old Father Jacques Hamel, forced to his knees by Islamist militants who then slit his throat, sent a deep chill over the World Youth Day event. He said that a string of recent attacks, including the murder of a priest in France, was proof that the "world is at war". Police have not raised the threat level for the gathering of more than a million Catholic youth from around the world, sometimes called the "Catholic Woodstock". However, speaking to reporters aboard the plane taking him to Poland, the pope said he was not talking about a war of religion, but rather one of domination of peoples and economic interests. "Pope John Paul II said that we should be tolerant and not resort to force.

So good news to commuters: the cost of your underground ride will not be going up from AR $4.50 to AR $7.50 today. “Subte prices are absolutely inflated. Yesterday an injunction presented by auditor Facundo Del Gaiso was upheld effectively putting the Subte ride price increases scheduled to come into effect today on hold. I’m not saying we are happy to do it, but today everyone admits that AR $4.50 is a really low fare take the Subte,” he said. We also put into question the amount of money destined to subsidize the Subte company, as it has grown exponentially since 2012 and reached AR $2.1 billion in 2016,” Del Gaiso told Infobae yesterday.

Thursday, July 28, 2016 Food shortages leave zoo animals hungrySome 50 animals have starved to death in the last six months at one of Venezuela’s main zoos, according to a union leader, due to chronic food shortages that have plagued the crisis-stricken nation. The fatalities at the Caricuao zoo in Caracas include Vietnamese pigs, tapirs, rabbits and birds — some of whom had not eaten for two weeks, according to Marlene Sifontes, a union leader for employees of state parks agency Inparques. — Herald with Reuters

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 S.Korea rejects Argentine wheat due to GMOBy Jane ChungReutersSEOUL — South Korea rejected a shipment of Argentine feed wheat after finding unapproved strains of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the cargo, Korea’s agriculture ministry said yesterday. Shift to AsiaAmple Argentine wheat supplies and the low grain quality have pressured prices and boosted feed wheat shipments to Asia. It imported 396,900 tons of Argentine feed wheat in June out of total imports of 910,946 tons, according to the statement. “When you analyze the destinations that Argentine feed wheat is being shipped to, there has been a radical shift toward Asia,” said Leandro Pierbattisti, chief analyst with Argentina’s grains warehousing chamber. South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, mostly imports feed wheat from Australia, India, Ukraine and Canada.

When using the official post system, users will receive any product weighting up to two kilos and worth less than US$200 at home. For bigger deliveries, the goods will need to be retrieved from the local post office. Wednesday, July 27, 2016 Door-to-door import deliveries finally OKedUp to five yearly purchases will be authorized, paying a 50 percent tax before AFIPThe government finally launched its door-to-door international delivery system yesterday, lifting some of the restrictions on imports which forced residents to face long queues and a complex bureaucracy at Retiro neighbourhood’s Customs Office. We are introducing competition in a measured way, favouring consumers without damaging local national production,” he said. The new system means that citizens can use either the post office or private couriers to secure the delivery of goods from abroad.

That’s right nerds, Mariah Carey is coming to Buenos Aires for the very first time fulfilling your every #fantasy and #touchmybody #everyMariahsongever. If you thought you saw a slight dusting of glitter and the fluttering of butterflies on the streets of Buenos Aires today, you were correct. Not te quiero, te amo. The queen mother of all things unicorn, rainbows, and the 90s is gracing the city with her presence. She wrote in her announcement for her Latin America tour that she can’t wait to see everyone in their hometowns and … wait for it… “te amo”!

To reopen Nisman’s case against Cristina,” read the multiple tweets. The bid to reopen the case has already been rejected, but Cristina took to Twitter nonetheless to blame the Macri administration for instigating it. Cristina also alludes to the people “pointing fingers” as guilty of covering things up:“What are you talking about, Cristina? Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas dismissed the case against Cristina in 2015. In a barrage of Tweets today, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner criticized yet another attempt to reopen a case investigating whether she covered up the role Iran could have allegedly played in the deadly 1994 AMIA bombing.

A questionnaire by D’Alessio IROL and Berensztein has indicated that out of 500 Argentines polled, seven out of 10 believe that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner deserves a jail sentence. The ex head of state currently faces four charges and is being prosecuted in the Future Dollars Case. An overwhelming 69 percent of people surveyed believe that a jail sentence is justified, while only 25 percent believe that imprisonment is unwarranted. When asked if they believed whether Cristina would actually end up in jail, a majority of participants said they didn’t. US $10 billion worth of future dollar contracts were sold in December,when they were actually worth US $15 billion.