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Argentina will be present with a pavilion at the Boston Seafood Expo

Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 07:55 UTC
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Argentina will be present at the Boston Seafood Expo North America, which is considered the most important of the United States and is scheduled for March 16/18, announced the Argentine Foreign ministry indicating it was part of the government's campaign to increase and diversify foreign trade and exports. Read full article

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  • ilsen

    All smells a bit fishy to me...

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    Shouldn't matter if all visitors give the argie booth a wide berth!

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Does Argentina still have any boats afloat?

    Or is it just the Navy that struggles to get out of port without tipping belly up and sinking down into the murk?

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    3
    you cannot differentiate between a fishing boat and a military boat, can you?
    not a surprise though

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    4
    Yes I can thank you.
    That is why I said 'any' boats. Any boats at all. Even a kayak. ..
    and
    'Or is it JUST the navy...'

    It was a lighthearted comment on the general standards of Argentine seamanship proficiency, or rather the lack thereof.
    Try re-reading very SLOWLY and CAREFULLY.

    You really can't differentiate between the subtle nuances of the English language, can you Pablito?
    Back to School!

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Porto Margaret

    #4

    They are the same thing in argentina along with a baby bath boat.

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Mendoza Canadian

    Too bad we can't actually buy any decent seafood here...of course we don't need anything that is a good for us. Like seafood, blueberries, cranberries, fresh fruit and vegetables...potatoes with no worms in them, firm GREEN broccoli and etc....

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    You can't buy seafood in Argentina? My God I didn't realise it had got so bad so fast!

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    I can confirm that the vegetables obtainable in BsAs are crap.

    My Argentinean neighbour and his family have just been over for a few weeks and his lovely 91 YO mother is always bemoaning the lack of decent fresh food and really loves to go to the markets while she is here.

    They are resigned to yet another round of trouble and this time they think their businesses will really suffer.

    Lovely people led by self-centred, corrupt, cunts the same as Uruguay, Venezuela, etc., etc.

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    No seafood in Argentina? How can that be?

    They have a huge coastline, and surely a well-developed fishing industry, don't they?

    Fruit and veg.?
    Is ALL the arable land turned over to soy factory farms?

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    “there will be an Argentine pavilion in Boston and at least nine Argentine fishing and processing companies will be attending the show”.....
    What the hell for ? do the Argies actually WANT to do business with the USA, Europe ?? or are they hoping to hook a few suckers from Africa ??
    The funny thing is that many Trolls have expressed their desire that Argentina should isolate itself from the big satanic world - that just wants to screw them - and be self-sufficient....what happened to that ?? OOOH, just hot air, as usual..

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • sussie@usa

    'isolate'...?

    Only a few have place such comment...

    The facts is that countries such as the UK and many other countries maintain diplomatic relations with Argentina means foreign countries are desperate to do business in argieland.

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    10. When I was living in BA I was craving lobster. I went to every seafood place I could find in Recoleta, Retiro and even all the way down to Puerto Madero and not one restaurant served lobster. Not one.
    Barbarians

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    7
    canadian
    you can't buy any of that in canada?
    sorry for you.

    so funny these ignorants isleños who have never seen a vegetable, a plant or a tree in their lives, opine about the quality of argentinian vegetables.

    of course, we not only have the best meat in the world, but also the best vegetables, fish and seafood of south america.

    the fact that a friend of an ignorant isleño doesn´t know where to buy them here is another issue.

    where do you get your fresh food in the islets?
    from a ship?
    yuck

    Mar 15th, 2014 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    14 Paul

    “Mendoza Canadian” lives in Mendoza

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    @ 12
    “means foreign countries are desperate to do business in argieland.”
    desperate??
    really? I think not! All first world countries have the choice of doing business with anyone they damn well please.
    This is because they are not beholden by billion USD debt.
    The UK/EEC etc doesen't 'need' Argentina any more than it 'needs' a hole in the head!
    They already have food supplies in order. No beef? No Soy? They have multiple arrangements with more reliable countries.
    Argentina desperately needs help.
    Why else is Crass-tina going to the Paris Club begging?
    @14
    Nice to see you struggling to make any point what so ever.
    You must be the only Argentine fish wriggling on the hook that Mendoza Canadian has ever seen!
    I'm sure the Falkland Islanders can catch plenty of fresh fish whenever they want.
    Except for Defense (which would be unecessary without Argetine aggression), the Falklands are self-sufficient.
    Paul, you need to accept you have lost the arguement, grow up, and get on with your life.
    Maybe get a job in the oil/gas industry?
    I hear they are hiring in the South Atlantic?
    But you need to apply through the London Recruitment Agencies.
    I have many friends in this field. Do you need me to 'put a word in, ?
    I'd be happy to put you forward for some Mine-Clearance, work!

    LOL! Sad little Argies, Always the Divas. Seriously lacking in Balls!

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    16
    the only “fresh” thing you have in the islets is penguin excrement.
    even your fish are contaminated with that joke of an oil well.
    an oil well that no petrol company is interested in.
    except...wait a minute...premier oil LOL.
    what the f*ck is that.
    and you have friends “working” there...LOL

    you are a very influential man LOL

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 01:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • the_Truth_shall_B_Trolld

    Fish, who eats that crap?

    I eat beef, entrails, blood sausage, and marrow. Mens' food, not effeminate lobster.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 01:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    17 Paulie

    How old are you?

    You sound like you're 15

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Paulina is only 14 and a half. Stamps her little foot and scweams....

    Her papi should take her home now.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    19-20
    guess it is a lot worse to be a pair of failed old farts like you both, spending 24 hours a day here since ages.
    don´t you have anything better to do, any grand children to take care of?
    viejos chotos.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    21

    Still sulking? You're not so pretty when you pout Paulina.

    Play nicely now or we will have to take your toys away.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    22
    must be sad.
    an old fart living in a shitty islet, isolated from everything worth.
    not a surprise they spend the last remaining years posting bullshit here.
    must be the most exciting thing for them.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Paulina

    Yawn. You must be one of Axel's students - you sound just as indoctrinated.

    Or do you kid yourself that you are free- thinking?

    Have you been staying after class for 'help'?

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    18. My guess it is one of the many things you'll never be able to experience.

    I hope you like cat food.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @25 I have to smile when I read TTT's comments. He is so soft homophobic that he has to define food as macho or effeminate. I remember him on one of his rants when he declared he NEVER dates women. Then added, 'I don't date men either'. : )

    TTT, it really does not matter at all what your preferences are. Relax.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    24.
    now we have the other old fart trying to back his couple.
    pathetic.
    have you ever tried being interned in a geriatric institute?
    guess your life would be a bit less miserable.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    27
    Old? Isolated? Living on an Islet?

    I split my time between London and various locations in Venezuela; and am still young enough to do so with ease and enjoyment!

    Isolated?
    Have you ever been to London?
    Bhaaahahaha!

    someone get Paulina some more cat food. ...

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 03:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    27 Pauline

    It's touching that you feel compelled to defend your “professor”, Axel, but you really are hopeless at it.

    Everything you have written about us or accused us of, is based on very outdated stereotypes and indoctrination.

    I assume you are still in school and living at home with no responsibilities yet.
    It's obvious that none of your statements are based on life experience, personal enlightenment or travel - you just spout dogma.

    It's understandable, but on spite of what other posters have shown you, you reject anything that conflicts with your limited world view.

    Your posts are irrelevant, if not outrageously amusing.

    Nobody listens to you, anymore.

    Come back when you're older and have a job and a family to support on that money. Tell us how satisfied you are with the government handling your finances and social services.

    Mum and Dad let you drive yet? You know, fuel prices are going to skyrocket, even though you 're sitting on a fortune in fossil fuels. Why's that do you think??

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 03:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    I concur with Mr Troy (*hat tip)

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @14 All incredibly contaminated. No way I would buy anything originating in argieland. It's all shite!
    @18 “Entrails”? You mean “intestines”? Whose do you eat? Grandparents? Parents?
    @21 Pop round to him (?) @18. You too can be a meal. Your chance to find out what it would be like to be vomited!

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    29 - 30
    mr. troy and mrs. ilsen
    anything is better than being two old failed.
    the funny thing is that both try to appear as “young enough” lol.
    how “young” is that? 70? 80?
    so, old and failed.... it is understandable why you are so bitter and resentful.
    the good thing is that it is not going to last too much more.

    have you already hired your funeral service?
    don´t delay much.

    btw, you two make a beautiful couple.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • sussie@usa

    @ 16
    So, if you say that argieland is 'desperate' for the extra buck why the UK diplomatic personnel remains in Bs.As?

    See, the UK established diplomatic relations with a country that killed hundred of british soldiers.., the UK keeps saying argieland is financially broke without any hope of improvement...would YOU keep a relationship with a person that killed one you love and give financial help?

    The USA Congress have invited Pope Francis to the USA,...
    is the USA 'desperate'
    to get support from a non-politician to delay the 17 trillons dollars still UNPAID.

    See, YOU simply don't make any sense.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    Sussie@12....“only a few have place such comment”... ...perhaps you are right...but as most of you Trolls bind together blindly, it seemed reasonable to presume you all shared the same biased opinions.
    And your belief that “countries such as the UK and many other countries maintain diplomatic relations with Argentina means foreign countries are desperate to do business in argieland” is so much bull, it isn't funny...well perhaps it is. IF the 'foreign' countries were all so desperate to do business in Argieland, then why don't they ?? Because it is the other way round : Argentina is desperate to do business with the 'foreign' countries, but these are not very interested.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Can someone hog tie sussie and drag her back onto the Reservation please?

    Get a rabies jab first tho!

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    32 paulina

    As I said,
    “It's understandable, but in spite of what other posters have shown you, you reject anything that conflicts with your limited world view.”

    Here,read this insightful link about indoctrination that your fellow Argentinian, “CD ”, posted earlier.

    http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/religious_and_secular_cults_leaders_and_followers/

    You're a chump - duped and betrayed by your own countrymen - you can't blame foreigners for that.

    Your posts are irrelevant, if not outrageously amusing.

    Nobody listens to you, anymore.

    Come back when you're older and have a job and a family to support on that money. Tell us how satisfied you are with the government handling your finances and social services.

    :-D

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    36
    you have already said all that sh*t.
    don't you remember grandpa?
    go back to the geriatric and do not forget to take the pills.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Does that mean you read what we write ???

    Did you read the link as well?

    Probably not. It doesn't say what you want to hear...

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    38
    a site suggested by a lonely old fart...hmm... no, thanks.

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    I know, you're scared. Can't handle the truth.

    Stay in denial.

    Meanwhile, responsible adults and critical thinkers are open to new information .

    You're like the abused housewife who desperately wants to believe the beatings are a sign that he loves you.

    Pathetic.
    Are you really “Sussie”?

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    They love the abuse. Makes them feel 'special”

    Jeje jeje!

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 10:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    what a beautiful couple are you both.
    it seems you complement each other perfectly.

    go enjoy that site suggested by the other old fart

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Back to the topic.

    Have you caught any fish yet?

    Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    first they need boats, however they're all on the bandwagon for a free junket to Boston at taxpayer expense - yee haw, party time!!

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 12:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    the ones who need to catch fish to survive are you.
    luckily we have a lot of different food here.
    not by chance argentina is the granero del mundo.

    anyway, the best asset of argentina, putting aside the immense quantity of shale oil and gas, premium meat, soy, wheat, etc, etc, etc, are the huge sources of fresh water.

    i can already see, in 5 / 10 years, the uk and all kind of 3rd class colony claiming that those big glaciers, enormous lakes and other sources of meltwater are of them.

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Paul, This is your immediate future.

    Alvaro Villarueda starts his morning the same way every day — putting in a call to his friend who has a friend who works at a Caracas, Venezuela, supermarket.

    Today, he's looking for sugar, and he's asking his friend if he knows if any shipments have arrived. As he talks on the phone, his wife Lisbeth Nello, is in the kitchen.

    There are 10 mouths to feed every day in this family — five of them children. The two youngest are still in diapers.

    “The things that are the scarcest are actually what we need the most,” Nello says. “Flour, cooking oil, butter, milk, diapers. I spent last week hunting for diapers everywhere. The situation is really tough for basic goods.”

    http://www.npr.org/2014/03/16/290516431/venezuela-in-turmoil-for-lack-of-flour-milk-and-diapers

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • sussie@usa

    @46

    Don't forget to send the same goods to the USA, the food banks are running empty of ADULT diapers, sweet and low instead of sugar,
    corn meal, milk and aspirin, pop corn, cans of apricots, vegetable soup and tide soap!

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    46
    yankeeboy
    agree that this government, more or less like the venezuelan, is doing a complete mess here.
    but i hope we (not the govt) can avoid to reach the situation that venezuela is living.
    in the end, both countries are completely different, and so their economies.

    i guess inflantion rate will decrease because of a “enfriamiento de la economía”.
    it will be as bad as a high inflation rate, but anyway...

    right now the situation in several industries (construction, metalworking, automotive, etc) is of total uncertainty.

    this imbeciles generated a new “bicicleta financiera”, so, who the f*ck is going to put their pesos or dollars in a building, for instance.

    at least the soybean harvest reached a new record.
    let´s see what happens with all that money.

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    48. Just like Venezuela has mismanaged their huge oil wealth Argentina is mismanaging the Farm wealth. If things don't radically change Farming will be unprofitable next year.
    My guess is you'll barely have revenue to pay for fuel this winter no matter how huge the Soy crop turns out.

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • sussie@usa

    @49

    Remember when YOU laughed at the gas explosion in Bs.As.?....

    Same thing happens in New York City with the gas explotion of a 127 years old main gas connection...

    Remember when YOU laughed at the electricity shortage in Bs. As.?...

    Same thing is happens in the usa east states, these states are all buried in snow....no flight, no school, no goverment business.

    No fruits or vegetables...this year!

    Most states, cities and counties are planning to increase property taxes just to keep the police officers payroll, anything else, such as street repairs, removal of grafitti, school building repairs, etc.etc. have to wait....
    My guess is that with all the quartely tax revenues these states, counties and cities collects is not sufficient to keep managing the sluggish economy and more cities filing bankruptcy are crying wolf..

    Salvese quien pueda!

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    At some point Argentina is going to have to learn to play nice.

    “Several of the country’s 30 biofuel plants are operating at a very low capacity. We will not be able to export any biofuel to the European Union that, at some times, accounted for up to 90 percent of all our biofuel exports.”
    On top of the EU’s imposition of a 24.6 percent tariff on Argentina’s biofuel announced in November is a 6.5 percent duty resulting from Argentina’s having been left out of the General Preferential Tariff (GPT) system whereby its biofuel was duty-free, something that resulted in a total levy of 31 percent which leaves it “out of the market.”
    CARBIO estimates that Argentine biodiesel exports could shrink nearly 40 percent as a consequence of the EU’s decision that Argentina is challenging before the World Trade Organization (WTO), a process which Castro said may mean being in conflict this year and next.

    http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/154599/argentina-doesn%E2%80%99t-find-alternative-biodiesel-markets-after-eu-restriction

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • sussie@usa

    @ 51 Yankeeboy aka Dialect18 aka Connect the Dots

    At some point, YOU will see that all your rattling is just a waste of time.

    Help your parents Captain Poppy and Isolde to shovel the snow from their boston usa made trailer!

    :D

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Argentina just had their credit rating knocked down again. The only other countries with as bad of a rating are in civil unrest or communist!

    Bahahahahahahaha

    Cat food para todos

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • sussie@usa

    Comment removed by the editor.

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    it seems many here have a completely distorted version of argentina.
    they confuse country with government with politicians with ordinary people.
    natural resources with economy with politics and whatever you want.
    they cannot understand the complexities of any country, not only argentina.

    what i like the most is the majority of them (maybe it is not the case of yankeeboy) have never set foot on argentinian soil, do not understand a word of spanish (or any other language apart from english), but they insist in posting bullshit.

    guess this shitty newspaper / site is the ideal place for that.

    Mar 17th, 2014 - 11:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Seen the headline news?

    Not many Quids in the Squids so far this year. ....

    Mar 18th, 2014 - 12:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • sussie@usa

    'cat food para todos”

    really?

    Why my comment detailing the FOOD ARGENTINIANS EAT was remove?

    ENGLISES TRAMPOSOS!

    Mar 18th, 2014 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    @57, 'cause you don't know how to write in English, nincompoop !! and no one is interested in the crap YOU eat..
    Now getting back on track, what do the Argies expect to accomplish at the Seafood Expo, in Boston ?? C'mon , tell us...

    Mar 18th, 2014 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • sussie@usa

    Bring them to Vegas!

    39,ooo,ooo millons tourists visit Vegas every year...

    mostly from China, Japan and Phillipines people visit this SUNSHINE State just to eat fish and seafood dinner @ US$ 55.oo per person

    Boston is buried with snow, ask Captain Poppy....

    Mar 19th, 2014 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Umm.... yeah. ... try not to listen to the voices in your head sussie. I thought you hated the USA. ..

    Shouldn't you be back in Argentina? That would at least increase the fish stocks by one. ...

    Mar 19th, 2014 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    @59...so you think all the members of the Argie Foreign Ministry and all the visitors to the Seafood Expo should fly down to Vegas.....
    Not a bad idea.....imagine all the Argie clients you could pick up on the 'strip' and in the cassinos...and don't forget the K-Y jelly, or you may not be able to walk after “a hard day's night”...

    Mar 19th, 2014 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    My guess is Rg gov't officials want a free ticket to Boston so they can shop and tour a beautiful vibrant city.
    They will never be able to sell their fish here, no brand, no $ to build a brand, never going to amount enough to bother with. Plus I am sure they will never meet our health standards.

    Mar 19th, 2014 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Jack
    K Y jelly? Is that Cristina's face cream?

    Mar 19th, 2014 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    Ilsen@63, Very likely....probably gets it onto her face by transfer after it's been used where it should be...

    Mar 19th, 2014 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • sussie@usa

    Comment removed by the editor.

    Mar 19th, 2014 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Lol!

    Mar 20th, 2014 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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