Rich in agriculture

Rich in agriculture

• Rich in agriculture
• sunflower seeds, lemons, soybeans, gapes, corn, livestock, wheat
• Industries
• food processing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, steel, metallurgy, petrochemicals, textiles
• Labor Force by sector
• agriculture: 5%
• industry: 23%
• services: 72%
•  Unemployment rate
• 7.9% as 2010- rank 84
• Population below poverty
• 30% as 2010

55th President of Argentina

• 55th President of Argentina
• 1st elected female president
• Positions within the government
• Relationship to the USA
• Maletinazo (suitcase scandal)

Agricultural Goods

• Agricultural Goods
• corn, sugar cane, rice, bananas, coffee, beef, pork, eggs, fish
• Industries
• petroleum, construction materials, food processing, textiles, iron ore mining, steel
• Labor Force by Sector
• agriculture: 13%
• industry: 23%
• services: 63% (1997)
• Unemployment Rate
• 12.1 % as 2010- rank 130
• Population below poverty
• 37.9%- yearend 2005

- Aug. 4 2007: Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson

• - Aug. 4 2007: Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson

• - $790,550 in unmarked $50 bills

• - Kirchner tried to convince Chavez to accept some of the political cost of the suitcase affair

• - Chavez refused to take it

- Venezuela has sold diesel to cover serious shortages of the fuel

• - Venezuela has sold diesel to cover serious shortages of the fuel

• - Venezuela has bought more than $4 billion in Argentine debt

• - Chávez is bailing out a troubled Argentine dairy company.

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• -Agricultural know-how

• - Argentine technology

• - A supportive partner for ambitious regional projects like a bank, gas pipeline and gas producers' cartel

• - Politically he gets a key stage from which to grandstand to the world

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- Cultivated a new client state and pull Argentina into his ideological orbit

• - Cultivated a new client state and pull Argentina into his ideological orbit

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• - Member of Latin America’s “Chávez bloc.”

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• -Ability to organize other anti-U.S. rally

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• - Argentines are among the most negative about U.S. leadership in the world

- While speaking at a ceremony in La Plata, Hugo Chávez showed his support for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her potential reelection in October. 

• - While speaking at a ceremony in La Plata, Hugo Chávez showed his support for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her potential reelection in October. 

• - “she is the woman this country needs in order for the ship to maintain a steady course.”

Peronist ideals leads her to being friends with him.

• Peronist ideals leads her to being friends with him.

Kirchner thinks that there should be unity within the Latin American countries

• Kirchner thinks that there should be unity within the Latin American countries

• More likely to support Chavez against other world powers

2001 Bailout by Venezuela of Argentina and Cristina's husband leads to more loyalty.

• 2001 Bailout by Venezuela of Argentina and Cristina's husband leads to more loyalty.

• Do you think that the support of Chavez and Venezuela will hurt Cristina Kirchner in the next election?
• Which person in this relationship benefits more and why?