A LOOK AT TODAY’S HEADLINES (Oct 27th)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | 10:33 ET
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What’s the news? Look at the pictures and predict what each piece of news will deal with.
Controversial decision
Parrilli on probation, no trial
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Judge Norberto Circo decided to put Buenos Aires City Judge Rosa Parrilli on probation so that the controversial Judge, accused of threats and discrimination for insulting two employees at the municipal parking lot where her car was towed after committing a traffic violation last month, may avoid a trial.
With the probation Parrilli avoided not only the trial but also being removed from office.
The Judge had offered to compensate with 5,000 pesos each the municipal traffic agency employees she insulted and threatened.
Parrilli will now have to do community service, and hand in her driver's license for 18 months and apologize to the women for the racial slurs she uttered.
Scioli wants city and province closing time uniformity
'Macri must prioritize teenagers' health and not the pockets of nightclub owners,' BA province minister
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Buenos Aires province Social Development Minister, Baldomero Álvarez de Olivera, criticized Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri for delaying the adoption of the nightclubs' time restriction. "Macri must prioritize teenagers' health and not the pockets of nightclub owners," he said.
Earlier, Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli asked Macri not to consider adopting the time restriction as "a political concession."
"The City of Buenos Aires keep on vacillating about this topic, but I ask them not to see it as a political concession or as if they were conceding ground to the provincial government," Scioli said during an interview today.
"If they adopt the time restriction, all they will do is answer positively to the parents' claims," he added. "The consequences of the unlimited closing time, we see them with the amount of young kids being admitted to hospitals for alcoholic comas."
"I call to the city administration to go in the same direction as the province in order to get legal uniformity and so that they don't bear on their shoulders the weight of what could happen if youngsters decide to leave the province and enter the city jurisdiction to keep on partying after 5.30am," the BA province Governor added.
Marcos Peña, the City Secretary, answered the BA province governor, saying that he considered the time restriction measure a "media maneuver" and that it is not the solution against the alcohol plague.
"Consensus and prevention are the best way to protect the young crowds," he said, adding that the webpage saliseguro.com.ar that the city put online was a good tool to inform youngsters and parents about the bars and clubs who don't respect the law and have been warned or closed. In that sense, Peña accused the province of "not coordinating prevention actions."
Attacks were also launched from the provincial government toward the city. The Buenos Aires province Cabinet Chief, Alberto Pérez criticized the City Mayor Mauricio Macri, saying he "launches measures without consulting anybody."
Pérez concluded saying that "governing an autonomous city does not mean heading the government of an autistic city."
Draft to be debated later this week
Boudou attends Upper House Budget Bill hearing
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Economy Minister Amado Boudou is scheduled to comment on the details of the 2010 Budget bill before an Upper House committee at 10am. Boudou will be joined by Treasutry Sectretary Juan Carlos Pezoa and Finance Secretary Hernán Lorenzino.
The draft would be debated on the floor later this week. Boudou will also comment on the details of the government's plan to extend taxes on income and personal assets, which was also passed by Congress two weeks ago.
The bill was passed by the Lower House two weeks ago. It estimates a 2.5 percent GDP, an exchange rate of 3.95 pesos per dollar and 6.1 percent inflation.
Government spending will grow to 273.1 billion pesos, 60 percent of which will be earmarked to social services.
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