Hiya, G5! While I'm waiting for Cate's New Year’s surprise to download (which will take some time) I thought I could share an interesting piece of local news. Our current president, one of many of the peronist tradition, has decided to pay off the entire Argentine debt to the IMF. Not that we can actually spare the money -with over 40% of Argentines living in poverty and sky high unemployment rates- but the Homer Simpsons of this country just love this guy for such decisions… and then we wonder why we are not making progress… jeez. Here are a couple of articles published by the NYTimes:

Article 1 (Jan 02, 2005)

Article 2 (Jan 03, 2005)

By the way, the 9.8 billion dollars were paid early this afternoon, according to a press conference held by our Minister of Economy.

The download is still on 11%... I can’t wait to see that movie!!!!!! Cate for President!!!!