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LATINO AMERICA
Latino
America
Ricki Chavez Munoz reports on what’s happening in South America
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stamos a unos días de llegar a Inglaterra para el Show
de Londres, que ahora lleva el nombre de
International Gaming Expo (IGE) 2009. Me parece
bien que hayan dejado de usar el nombre de ICE, que
quiere decir hielo, y no solo porque en la lingua I
t’s just a few days before we arrive in England for the
London Show, which is now called International Gaming
Expo – IGE 2009. The change of name is a move in the
right direction, as ICE was a bit too obvious for January.
It's bad enough with arctic weather conditions in the
franca peruana quiere decir obviar a alguien, sino porque está UK’s capital city, but no-one needs reminding of what makes
bien que enero sea un mes bien frío en Europa, y el hielo solo lo teeth chatter, unless it's on the rocks in a single malt.
queremos como rocas en el escocés.
Conversely, the Southern Cone of South America gets
El cono sur sudamericano está que arde, con la líder de la hotter by the hour, and not only on account of Opposition
Coalición Cívica, Elisa Carrió, llamando zamba canuta al ex leader Eliza Carrio, who has called Argentine ex president
presidente Néstor Kirchner por “coludirse con el empresario Nestor Kirchner all the names under the sun for supposedly
Cristóbal López en la explotación de casinos en Argentina”, "colluding with casino mogul Cristobal Lopez in the
después que el jefe de Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, exploitation of casino business in Argentina."
Mauricio Macri, rechazara la ampliación del juego en la Ciudad,
indicando que ese proyecto "avalaría un negocio" manejado por Carrio's attack followed Buenos Aires province’s governor
el gobierno nacional con "una enorme falta de transparencia". Mauricio Macri's refusal to extend gaming in the Argentine
capital city, saying that the project would “endorse a business”
A esto se suma el resultado de la licitación del Hotel Casino controlled by the national Government with "an enormous
Carrasco en Montevideo, que fuera ganado por el consorcio lack of transparency".
Codere-Sofitel-Accor, pero que ha sido denunciado por Hyat-
Liberman que terminó segundo, reportado en nota aparte líneas In the middle of all this, in neighbouring Uruguay the
abajo. Al mismo tiempo, el Gobierno uruguayo ha anunciado la Montevideo local government declared Codere-Sofitel as the
licitación de 13 casinos en el país, y en Paraguay se espera el winner of the tender for the legendary Hotel Casino Carrasco
ganador de la licitación de otro casinos para Asunción. just as the year ended. Immediately runners up Hyattt-
Liberman denounced the result as fraud (please read below a
Y solamente esperamos que termine IGE 2009 para viajar a few more lines on this).
México, donde la Subcomisión de Gobernación de Juegos y
Sorteos prácticamente ya aprobó la descentralización de la As Government revenues run dry, gaming is seen as the
obvious cash cow, and for this Uruguay has announced
tenders for 13 casinos throughout the country. Next door, in
land locked Paraguay, the local gaming commission gets ready
to name the winner of the tender for the second Asuncion
casino.
For our part, we just can't wait to go back to Mexico, where
the Gaming and Lotteries Department of State (Gobernacion)
Sub Commission at Congress approved last December what
amounts to the decentralization of operating licensing, whilst
a few weeks ago the Department of Tourism G&L Sub
Commission got down to sponsoring a White Paper to
approve casino games, as played in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mexico
is where it's at!
Cheers,
Ricki.
22 FEBRUARY 2009
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