[rorra]

Probably I did a big offtopic, I just wanted to share what's the current situation in Argentine, and what's going on in Latin America.

Perhaps the main reason for Google Play is the current laws restriction for getting foreign currencies and to get the money out of the country.

Google has other business in Argentine as well (as google ad sense), but on the last months we also have restrictions to buy things in dollars with our credit cards, to extract money from foreign ATM (most people were going to Uruguay to extract U$S from the ATM), and the government is trying to avoid by force to let people or companies to take the money out of Argentine.

So it may be related to our laws.

[rafaelm]

Maybe the government had a talk with Google? We've had currency restrictions for almost ten years now in Venezuela and we don't have any restrictions related to Adsense income. I don't have a way to get the dollars to Venezuela but I can deposit checks via snail mail to an account in the US or Panama. The black market price of the dollar here is almost 5 times the official rate! Imagine what that does to the economy of a country that produces nothing but oil...