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The New York Court of Appeals must decide whether to uphold the suspension of Judge Loretta Preska's order, which obliges the Argentine State to hand over 51% of the shares of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF) due to irregularities in its expropriation. "What will be determined is whether the judge's order has to be executed or if it remains suspended until an alternative solution is found. Meanwhile, there are two other hearings left, one in September and another in October, to resolve other issues such as the resolution of compensation to the plaintiffs," said Felix Lonigro, a constitutional lawyer, on Cara o Ceca. "If it is decided that Argentina has to hand over the shares, the alternative left is to go to the US Court so that Justice grants another suspensive term," he added. In 2012, the Argentine State expropriated 51% of the shares of YPF. The Burford Capital fund bought the rights of minority shareholders and sued the Argentine State. "It is very difficult for the delivery of shares to happen because, in the first place, the Argentine Congress has to approve it," he stated. Trump Deploys National Guard in Washington This is the second time since his return to power that Donald Trump has resorted to this police force, after having done so in Los Angeles to contain pro-immigrant protests. "The National Guard has a constitutionally fixed time to act and is subject to the declaration of emergency. It will surely extend up to 90 days, but not much more; it will not solve the problem of insecurity," said Erick Fajardo, a political consultant from the US, from the vicinity of Washington DC, on Cara o Ceca.

The Argentine opposition reacted to Javier Milei's national address, where he defended the vetoes of the disability emergency and pension increase laws and threatened to fine legislators who threaten fiscal balance. "Milei speaks to an increasingly small segment of Argentina. The elderly, families of people with disabilities, and public university students are not being taken into account," said Germán Martínez, head of the Unión por la Patria bloc in Deputies, on Cara o Ceca. "When an Executive does not speak to Argentines and only looks at its own navel, the political representation of that Government breaks down," he said. "Milei is constantly creating problems for the daily lives of Argentines, and we want to solve that, to the point that in Congress we are making room for a debate that should have taken place when the Budget law for this year was discussed. As that law did not pass, we have to address the issues one by one," he said. Putin and Trump will meet in Alaska US President Donald Trump confirmed that he will hold a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on August 15 to discuss the Ukrainian crisis. "Expectations must be moderated. The summit has been planned for a long time. When they meet, they will not only discuss the closing of the conflict in Ukraine, but also issues of the global scenario," said Guillermo Caviasca, historian and professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), on Cara o Ceca.

"This investment will match the agricultural complex in terms of exports and foreign exchange generation. In terms of exports, it is $2.5 billion per year. This consolidates Argentina's export profile globally," said Yamil Quispe, energy consultant, in Cara o Ceca.

La coparticipación impositiva entre provincias y nación argentina se rige por ley de 1988 sin actualizarse, perpetuando inequidades en cuentas públicas regionales. FUNDAR informó sobre la situación y propuso nueva coordinación tributaria federal.

Partidos escindidos de la vieja alianza Juntos por el Cambio buscan formar una nueva alternativa política entre La Libertad Avanza y el kirchnerismo para las próximas elecciones legislativas del 26 de octubre.

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Two months before Argentina's national legislative elections, Peronism shapes its possible representatives on the lists. In 'Heads or Tails', we speak with former Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, who referred to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's conviction.

Deceased workers trapped underground after a magnitude 4.2 tremor on Thursday 31st in central Chile destroyed part of the El Teniente mine, the world's largest copper deposit. "There are nine injured workers in addition to the six deceased. Three days of national mourning were decreed as a result of this situation," said Chilean journalist Lucas Aguayo on Cara o Ceca. "Many relatives will not be able to receive the bodies of the victims because they are very damaged and they have to carry out the corresponding expert reports to deliver them," he added. "It has been pointed out that the workers were not heard. There were previous complaints about the shelters inside the mine where the miners can go in these cases. They said they were closed," he concluded. The Argentine Government again resorted to the veto to defend fiscal balance. The Javier Milei Administration vetoed laws benefiting retirees and the disabled recently approved by Congress: the increase in assets, the restoration of the pension moratorium, and the declaration of emergency in disability. The official justification is based on the need to maintain fiscal balance. "There is no money, and the only way to make Argentina great again is with effort and honesty," the Government said in a statement. "For the opposition, the veto represents an act of cruelty, while for the Government it is a project of 'fiscal degenerates'. This discussion reinforces the concepts that there is a path towards provincial and national elections," said Argentine political scientist Gustavo Marangoni on Cara o Ceca. "Seniors feel attacked by [Javier] Milei's policy, between the freezing of the 70,000 pesos [a bonus of 55 dollars that is granted monthly and is not indexed] and the loss of real capacity in pensions, they generate a reason to vote against," he added.

President Javier Milei is expected to veto the reinstatement of the retirement moratorium, the increase in benefits, and the declaration of a disability emergency on August 4, the last day stipulated to advance with the measure. Casa Rosada seeks to ensure that Congress does not annul this decision. "The Government's view of ordering public accounts is the way forward. We are not going to support any law that threatens its economic plan, which is ultimately the plan of Argentines," said Martín Maquieyra, national deputy of the Republican Proposal (PRO), in Cara o Ceca. "There is a political intention of the opposition, more than a genuine intention, to solve the problem of retirees. Alberto Fernandez's last formula [president between 2019 and 2024] lowered pensions by 40% in real terms. His position now is curious. We will not solve the great problem they have with this law alone," he added. "The Government's view of ordering public accounts is the way forward. A formula is required for the country to grow and to have funds and retirement contributions. That is not going to happen overnight," he concluded. The technician who rebuilt the Argentine national team: Who was César Luis Menotti for national football? Ezequiel Fernández Moores, sports journalist, visited the Sputnik studios and spoke about his new book "Menotti. The First: History of the coach who rebuilt the National Team", the biography of the world champion coach in 1978. "I portrayed the life of Menotti because he managed to make the Argentine national team world champion in the midst of the military dictatorship. He was a guy who already talked about politics. In 1973 he had signed a declaration to ask for the return of Perón," who had been exiled in Spain since 1955, he explained. In addition, he highlighted the characteristics of the local league. "What Argentine football has is that it is not hegemonic like in North America or Europe. Here it is more competitive, there is more uncertainty and it makes it a spectacle."

The Argentine government seeks to contain the dollar in the electoral prelude and to that end raised the interest rate to 65% annually in pesos so that investors renew their commitments: "We know that the Government's main objective is to lower inflation. Therefore, the big problem it may have with this dollar increase is that it impacts the acceleration of prices," said Claudio Caprarulo, economist, on Heads or Tails.

Javier Milei gains allies in Congress before the legislative elections. Deputies from the Radical Civic Union, distanced from the party due to their closeness to the Government, formalized an inter-bloc with La Libertad Avanza. "We consolidate an inter-bloc to work together legislatively and have access to executive officials who provide us with information about the direction of the Government," Pablo Cervi, one of the deputies in the new alliance, said in Cara o Ceca.

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In the height of Argentina's winter tourist season, Bariloche stands out as a major destination, avoiding the general decline in influx and the increased departure of Argentinians due to the exchange rate. "The number of foreigners coming is impressive. There's 85% occupancy here and between 29 and 30 daily flights. It increased further with the winter vacation season in the province of Buenos Aires. We believe the season will last until September," said the mayor of Bariloche, Walter Cortes, in Cara o Ceca.

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Javier Milei will visit the traditional annual Exhibition of the Argentine Rural Society amid demands from the countryside for the level of export duties. "With withholdings on the main crops, the Government collects between 7.5 and 9 billion dollars, money it uses for the Central Bank's reserves. It is a lot of money that they are claiming, but it has been happening since 2002. To eliminate the tax you need a tax reform and for it to be sustained by law," said Leonardo Sarquis, former Minister of Agroindustry of the province of Buenos Aires and director of the consulting firm CONFIagro, on Cara o Ceca.

El portavoz del Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, valoró positivamente la tercera ronda de negociaciones de paz con Ucrania, especialmente en temas humanitarios. Sin embargo, aseguró que las Fuerzas Armadas rusas tomarán medidas para "organizar la defensa antiaérea y minimizar los riesgos" ante los ataques que continúa recibiendo por parte de Kiev. "Si bien hubo un nuevo acuerdo de intercambio de prisioneros, no hubo más avances que eso. Esto indica que Zelenski y los globalistas se ven en una situación de debilidad, donde están perdiendo iniciativas, sobre todo ante la victoria de [Donald] Trump en EEUU y el fortalecimiento de los BRICS", dijo en Cara o Ceca Sebastián Schulz, sociólogo y analista internacional de la Universidad de La Plata en Argentina.

In an exclusive dialogue with 'Heads or Tails', the Bolivian president, Luis Arce, reiterated his call for unity of the left for the August 17 elections. With the title "Before it's too late: unity now or defeat tomorrow", he recalled the call of Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, disappeared by the dictatorship in 1980, and warned of its risks. — What do you expect from this call for unity of the left in Bolivia and what risks do you consider are run if it is not achieved? — First, what we hope is that all the left-wing forces that are presenting themselves in the elections today, reflect together to be able to face a right that feels victorious, but that does not have the total support of the population. None of the candidates is beyond 20%, or around 20%, depending on the taste and the polls that are being developed in my country. But we also see more and more that there is a greater number of undecided voters who are forming as they listen to the government programs of the right-wing candidates, the number of undecided voters is also increasing, people who are going to vote blank. Therefore, there is a great opportunity for the left to rethink itself in order to face these elections. Our motive is not only an electoral issue, what we are proposing also involves a programmatic unity, at least a minimum program, principles in which all the men of the left in our Bolivia will coincide and be able to join efforts to face a right that, I repeat, feels like a winner, despite the fact that we already know the approaches, they are the old neoliberal approaches. I have made the call precisely by listening to many voices within our own left that are clamoring for unity. We have echoed those impressions that there was a need for unity and we have been pushing for unity since December 18, where we have raised the unity of the left and where unfortunately we have not had an echo. We have taken many actions to demonstrate that the path is unity for the entire left in order to defeat a right that feels like a winner. Therefore, many things are at risk and that is what we have to realize here. Our process of change is at risk, all the social policies that have been applied are at risk, employment is at risk and the risk is to return to the old indicators of poverty and exclusion that existed in our country. Even our own Plurinational State is at risk, because many of them are proposing a return to the Republic. In short, there are many things that unfortunately are at risk of everything that has been advanced. The most important thing of all this is that, observing what is happening in several countries of Latin America, the one who is going to suffer the consequences of all this is the Bolivian people. Therefore, we have made the call precisely to be able to form a bloc of lefts that will face these right-wing approaches, which we already know in the country. In Bolivia neoliberalism lasted 20 years. From 1985 to 2005 this old neoliberal model was in force that brought absolutely nothing good to the people. Perhaps for many of those who were managing the model, they have taken them out perhaps very well, because we as Bolivian people have suffered. Therefore, all that is at risk and that is why our vehement call so that all the left-wing forces can generate a bloc of unity that will face the Bolivian right in that way.

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Intense activity is expected in Istanbul this week with a third round of negotiations, possibly on July 23 or 24. "It is always positive to think that there may be a link between Ukraine and Russia. There is an important role for both the US and Turkey. So far, what has been achieved in these negotiations has been minimal, basically the exchange of prisoners and remains. Although for the Kremlin spokesman, it is very far from achieving another type of rapprochement," said Marcelo Montes, PhD in International Relations, on Cara o Ceca. "The least that can be expected from these approaches is a truce because several European countries are goading the extension of the war, they do not cease in their aid to Ukraine. Not only are they sending military weapons for it to survive this summer, but also the moral and discursive support that European leaders propagate to Kiev is added," he added. "Europe's position is hypocritical. The triangulation of Russian gas continues to exist thanks to the help of India and Turkey. They want to damage the Russian economy but they will never achieve it. Europe is being harmed, above all it is destroying the cultural and social relationship with Russia, it will cost a lot to restore it," he concluded. Rejection of Milei grew and exceeds 50% The Zuban-Córdoba consultancy conducted a survey that exposed an anti-Mileism of 53%. At the same time, in a polarized scenario, anti-Kirchnerism showed a negative image of 45%. "This latest report brought important data. We asked three fundamental questions assuming that 'Mileístas' already exist. 28.1% perceive themselves that way. It would be the hard core that the president has since the internal elections of 2023," said Sofia Chini, a political analyst associated with the Argentine consultancy Zuban-Córdoba, on Cara o Ceca. "Javier Milei had a large component of voters outside that hard core, who were anti-Kirchnerist. But today, with the problems, both with retirees and with the doctors of the Garrahan hospital, 52.8% would exercise a punishment vote in the national legislative elections, while 38% would reward him for his policies, especially in the face of the lack of a strong figure in the opposition," he added.