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NOVANEWS President of Argentina Mauricio Macri shakes hands with his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales during a joint press conference held on Monday at the Casa Rosada, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | Photo: EFE Bolivia and Argentina presidents meet Monday despite major political and ideological disagreements on regional and international topics. After several failed attempts to score a meeting between the two heads of state, President of Bolivia Evo Morales and his Argentine counterpart Mauricio Macri will finally meet Monday in Buenos Aires. RELATED: Bolivian Constitution To Recognize 3 New Indigenous Languages Despite strong political disagreements, the two presidents will hold meetings covering health agreements, gas contracts, the delivery of military aircra...

NOVANEWS By Carolina de Assis Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas At the end of 2001, Argentina’s political and economic crisis was the main theme in Latin American news coverage. The economic recession that culminated in intense popular protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rúa also fostered a peculiar phenomenon: that of companies recuperated by their workers. Since then, the formation of workers’ cooperatives to recuperate companies about to close their doors or which have already declared bankruptcy has occurred more frequently in the country, especially in the textile and metalworking sectors. However, in the last two years and for the first time, media outlets were the majority of companies recuperated in Argentina in the period, according...