The EU Supreme Court ruled that U.S.-based Monsanto Co. cannot use a patent on its genetically modified soybeans to block the importation of Argentine soy meal on 6th July. The decision comes after Monsanto withdrew the lawsuit that produced the case on 23rd June.

A new apartment complex in San Isidro, or a high tech Five Star Hotel in Santa Cruz, Patagonia would seem like good places to see some of Argentina’s newest developments in alternative energy. However for one organisation, the successful implementation of alternative solar energy strategies has been helping small communities in some of the most remote parts of the country and world for over the last two decades.

The on-going battle between the owner of Clarín media empire about the identity of her two adopted children and the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo has highlighed many sensitive questions regarding human rights in Argentina. The Dirty War may have ended three decades ago, but issues surrounding the ‘disappeared’ are still able to divide opinion in the nation.

Last month saw Barack Obama inaugurated as the 49th president of the United States, taking the reins from George W. Bush. While many are celebrating new president’s historic victory, some are surely lamenting the departure of Bush, and his famous slips of the tongue. The Argentina Independent looks back at some classic Bushisms.