A hypothesis on the river, sovereignty, and the homeland.

[Redpossum]

Hipótesis sobre río, soberanía y Patria

La foto que ilustra esta nota fue tomada el fin de semana pasado frente a la impresionante confluencia de los ríos Paraná y Paraguay, frente al Paso de la Patria correntino y a la chaqueña Isla del Cerrito. Allí el Paraná, que viene de las Sierras de ...

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Mempo Giardinelli, one of the grand old men of Argentine journalism, reminds us again that the issue of Argentina's sovereignty over the waterways, so shamelessly whored away by Menem, (and which our current president didn't have the balls to reclaim, when the lease expired last year), is of vital importance to the future of this country.

 

[Ries]

I find this translation, and to some degree, the article itself, a bit hard to figure out.
But the idea that the Magdelena Canal is a good thing, and that it will help the Argentine economy is something I wholeheartedly believe. I mentioned a while ago, a new Argentine Navy ship was recently launched, and it was not a warship- it was a scientific survey ship to help design this project.

 

[FrankPintor]

I find this translation, and to some degree, the article itself, a bit hard to figure out.
But the idea that the Magdelena Canal is a good thing, and that it will help the Argentine economy is something I wholeheartedly believe. I mentioned a while ago, a new Argentine Navy ship was recently launched, and it was not a warship- it was a scientific survey ship to help design this project.

Same here, I recognize the typical florid Argentinian journalistic style, and it's quite hard to read from an English-speaker's perspective, I think I got the gist of it, though the bit about the trout threw me a bit