“The well, which will cost about US$100 million, is set to start between next December and June of next year, but the works in the Mar del Plata port have already begun. According to Guiscardo, Vaca Muerta required close to U$S780 million since 2009 to explore 87 wells and detect reserves of 29,100 MBOE. Brazil, with close to 2,200 offshore wells, managed to double its crude oil production from 2 to 4 million barrels. Lamacchia said that the Mar del Plata offshore project can have up to 50% of locally made components, cautioning nonetheless that it would not be easy. He also estimated that the national government would receive between 58% and 62% of the total profits from this project.

The Brazilian Supreme Court voted on Thursday to convict the first person to stand trial for the storming of government buildings in the capital Brasilia on January 8 to 17 years in prison. They were possessed by an irrational, almost pathological, hatred,” said Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who also serves as the head of Brazil’s electoral authority. Thursday’s decision was the opener of a first batch as four people who were directly involved in the invasions stand trial. Pereira was convicted of all crimes he stood accused of, including attempted coup d’etat, damage to historic buildings, and criminal association. “The objective was, through the use of violence, to besiege Brasilia and propagate criminal acts throughout the country to attack the rule of law,” said Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin.

Economy Minister and ruling coalition presidential candidate Sergio Massa will file the 2024 national budget bill on Friday, following the deadline established by law, sources from Congress and the ministry have confirmed to the Herald. However, the bill will be presented on Friday, and not after the elections, as Milei requested. The government must present the budget bill for the period that starts on December 10 no later than September 15, according to Argentina’s Financial Administration Law. In Argentina, it is not unusual for the budget bill treatment to happen after presidential elections. In years without presidential elections, this usually happens in October or November.

Argentina’s monthly inflation rate was 12.4% in August, according to the National Institute for Statistics and Census (INDEC, for its Spanish acronym). The figure is almost double that of July and represents the highest monthly rate since February 1991, when the country was mired in a hyperinflation crisis. Eco Go predicts an 11% inflation rate for September. pic.twitter.com/OA5CQQ5POL — Patricia Bullrich (@PatoBullrich) September 13, 2023Shortly after INDEC released the monthly inflation rate, Juntos por el Cambio presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich took aim at the ruling coalition on X (formerly Twitter). INDEC will publish September’s inflation rate on October 12.

The government will start refunding value-added tax (VAT) on basic goods for many workers and welfare recipients, Economy Minister Sergio Massa announced on Wednesday evening. The program, called “Buy without VAT”, will apply to products within the basic basket of goods, purchased via debit card. “Its goal is that the basic basket is covered and compensated by this benefit.”In Argentina, VAT is 21%. On Monday, Massa announced that the Argentine government will raise the income tax threshold to AR$1.7 million pesos per month from October. August’s inflation rate, announced just three hours beforehand, was 12.4%.

Currently, Argentine law allows a maximum of eight hours of work per day, six days a week, or 48 hours a week in total. Olmos said that the working week should be 40 hours, but added that more developed countries have a 36-hour week. Senator Mariano Recalde filed a bill in the upper chamber that would also reduce working hours to 36 a week, aiming to promote a four-day working week. They decided to maintain the reduced working week after the test run because it helped them increase productivity. “The 48-hour working week is anachronistic because worker productivity has grown exponentially, so we have to discuss and modify it,” he said.

The new urban development will be called “Añelo Ciudad Central” (‘Añelo Central City’) and will be connected to the current city of Añelo in Neuquén province, near Vaca Muerta’s main pits. The goal is to expand the city now that the recently-approved arrival of the North Patagonian railroad will increase the area’s accessibility and connections. “It’s a city that will coexist with Añelo, expanding its urban limits with new lands,” he explained. To give an idea of how big it will be, the city of Añelo currently covers 2000 hectares: this project could cover up to 10,000 hectares. But there is also the bottleneck of how to get to, live in, and work in Vaca Muerta,” said Cantero.

However, this is not the place for such sociolinguistic analysis; suffice it to say that local catering staff are more likely to speak local dialects, with local accents. All of which leads me to the Argentine learner of English, who wants to improve the way they speak. However, most Argentines studying English are not, presumably, thinking of applying for a post with the CIA or their equivalent. Native speakers don’t expect or require “perfect diction” in learners of English, and learners should not be so ashamed of their origins that they want to eliminate all the linguistic clues that betray their provenance. Some English teachers and phoneticians are so conscious of a need to speak “correctly” that they go over the top with their demands.

Argentina’s men’s national football team will face Bolivia this Tuesday in the second fixture of the South American Qualifiers. Despite concerns about a potential injury, the Albiceleste will have star and captain Lionel Messi on the team, albeit on the bench. “We saw the people support Argentina, but we’ll discuss it after the game,” said striker Marcelo Moreno Martins, Bolivia’s most capped player and La Verde’s top goalscorer. If he scores, he’ll reach 30 goals to become the South American Qualifiers all-time record goal scorer. Argentina and Bolivia have met 41 times, with 29 wins for the Argentines, seven for Bolivia and five ties.

Economy Minister Sergio Massa revealed on Monday that the Argentine government will raise the threshold for an income tax to AR$1.7 million pesos per month (US$2,620 at the MEP exchange rate, US$2,404 at the blue chip swap rate), beginning in October. The announcement comes as the Union por la Patria candidate enters the home stretch in his campaign to be Argentina’s next president. The General Confederation of Labor (CGT, by its Spanish acronym) confirmed to the Herald that Massa convened the institution’s entire board of directors for the announcement. In a nine-page document titled “Eliminación Impuesto a Las Ganancias Trabajadores y Jubilados” (“Elimination of the Income Tax for Workers and Pensioners”), the Economy Ministry noted that 890,000 people are currently paying the income tax and that 800,000 would become exempt. The measure aims to make the tax the exclusive burden of CEOs, managers, sub-managers, privileged pensioners, and other high-income earners.

But military officers from the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) arrested Ortiz and transported him to a clandestine detention center known as Venda Sexy in Santiago. Ortiz was one of more than 1,000 people who were detained and disappeared during the Chilean dictatorship that began on September 11, 1973, 50 years ago on Monday. Pinochet ruled until March 11, 1990, and remained head of the Chilean Military until 1998. As in other countries of the region, Chile’s military officers have kept the secret of what they did to the disappeared and executed people. The investigations initiated after Pinochet’s arrest led to several other cases against military officers.

My coworkers excitedly filmed my reaction, thrilled that I had savored this Argentine staple. “Yerba mate is also drunk a lot in the south of Brazil.”Approximately 250 years later, the drink remains an Argentine mainstay. “All social classes drink mate, but it is a private drink, enjoyed inside and outside the home,” Perticone added. The bombilla is there for one reason and one reason only: to drink the mate. Thanking the mate pourer actually signals that you don’t want anymore.

At the G-20 summit in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, President Alberto Fernández held two informal meetings with his United States counterpart, Joe Biden, in which the two discussed the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Fernández asked after Biden’s wife, Jill, who was recently diagnosed with Covid-19, and Biden reciprocated by inquiring about Alberto’s spouse and young son. The second dialogue, which took place during a break after the morning and midday sessions, was more political in content, according to Télam sources. “The same character who is looking to take a picture with Donald Trump in the United States,” answered Presidential Spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti. “Lula once again expressed his desire for Sergio Massa to win the next election,” official sources said.

Editor’s Note: It’s the Herald’s policy not to use the term “dirty wars” due to its denialist associations. We’ve decided to use it here because the video game is the subject of the story. “Dirty Wars: September 11” is a stealth and espionage video game set in Santiago between 1973 and 1978, soon to be released on Steam. A Spanish video game developer contacted me and I started composing soundtracks for several video games. “Dirty Wars” is awaiting a fourth revision by Steam to be finally published on the platform.

“Just imagine having a female president in a country as macho as Mexico!” said Maria del Carmen Garcia, 70, a secretary who said women’s pay needs to catch up with men’s. Victory for Sheinbaum or Galvez would make them the first woman to win a general election in the United States, Mexico or Canada. Mexican women did not win full voting rights until 1953, 33 years after the neighboring United States. Today, Vazquez Mota said, her PAN ally Galvez no longer had to respond to whether Mexico was ready for a female president. The Mexico Como Vamos think tank reported in May that for every 100 men in working poverty, there were 112 women.