The Intelligence: Argentina turner?
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
After more than 100 days in office, President Javier Milei has managed some much-needed economic reforms. But the hit to voters’ pockets may limit his popularity, and progress. Sprucing up a peripheral Paris neighbourhood for the Olympics is just part of a plan to transform the city’s geography (9:42). And the astonishing life of the longest-ever user of an iron lung (17:20).
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| 1:08.6 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:19.6 | Many residents of central Paris look down on the scruffier neighborhoods on the city's periphery. |
| 1:25.6 | One of those Banlieuus is about to host the |
| 1:28.5 | Summer Olympics. Our correspondent talks to planners and residents to see how it will be leveled up. |
| 1:36.2 | And the iron lung seems like a bit of medical technology from distant history. Not so. Our |
| 1:43.0 | obituaries editor looks at the scarcely believable life |
| 1:46.2 | of Paul Alexander, |
| 1:47.8 | an author and lawyer |
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