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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's decision to expropriate the country's main energy company has prompted Spain to call the country an 'international pariah.'
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's decision to expropriate the country's main energy company has prompted Spain to call the country an 'international pariah.'
(Reuters)

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Gold miner bucks the trend in Argentina

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.

That might partially describe Courtney Chamberlain’s thinking as the chief executive officer of Minera IRL dives deep into talks with investors to finance an Argentine gold mine in Argentina, where nationalist measures have spooked miners.

The radical idea came to Mr. Chamberlain after contemporaries said he should sell Don Nicolas, the near-development gold asset in Argentina’s Santa Cruz province.