Argentina

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 06:11 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez targets Argentines going abroad to contain outflow of dollars

  

  No end for the US dollar clamp in Argentina. According to the Buenos Aires media the government of President Cristina Fernandez is preparing a set of new measures to further limit Argentines from holding the US currency but also from spending abroad on tourism.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 05:14 UTC

  Argentine August ‘non-official’ inflation index marks 1.9% and 24.23% in twelve months

  

  Argentina’s August inflation index based in the analysis of nine private agencies and released by Congressional members from the opposition climbed 1.9% against the previous month, the highest in the last four months.

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 05:29 UTC

  In spite of God and Cristina, several Argentine governors teaming up as an option

  

  Cordoba’s governor picked up the glove and replied to Argentine President Cristina Fernandez statements on God and fear arguing that God cannot be feared; I learned not to fear God or any other kind of governing body, however powerful they are”.

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 05:26 UTC

  Argentine budget numbers ever so red in the seven months of 2012

  

  The Argentine financial deficit soared to 13.5 billion Pesos in the first seven months of the year and could have reached 25.9bn Pesos had it not been for extraordinary resources from Social Security funds and the Central bank, according to the numbers published in the last release from the Central Bank.

• Saturday, September 8th 2012 - 05:20 UTC

  Argentina limits dollar trading for arriving tourists in ports and airports

  

  The Argentine government is further tightening the US dollar clamp. On Thursday the Central bank announced that state-run banks and agencies will be the only ones officially allowed to operate foreign currency exchange offices in airports and ports.

• Friday, September 7th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  “You only have to fear God: and me a little bit”, Cristina Fernandez scolds ministers

  

  “You only have to fear God, and me a little bit, at least while you are staff that depends from me”, said Argentine President Cristina Fernández publicly voicing her discontent towards some of her cabinet members after a court order interrupted a series of public works in the Buenos Aires province.

• Friday, September 7th 2012 - 03:26 UTC

  “Argentine blockade can’t stop the Falklands”, said Islands’ lawmakers in Guatemala

  

  The Argentine blockade can’t stop the Falkland Islands and “if Argentina believes that these aggressions are going to change the mind and spirit of the Islanders, they are dead wrong, much on the contrary”, said Falklands’ lawmakers currently visiting Guatemala on a tour of Central America and Mexico.

• Friday, September 7th 2012 - 03:15 UTC

  Argentina achieves 12-month trade surplus target in August with 10.04bn dollars

  

  Argentina's trade surplus rose to 1.64 billion dollars in August, more than double the surplus in the same month a year ago achieving the twelve months target four months ahead, President Cristina Fernandez announced on Thursday.

• Friday, September 7th 2012 - 03:06 UTC

  Argentine state formalizes its participation in the mobile phone sector

  

  The Argentine government signed the decree on Thursday formalising the decision for the state to begin to control a part of the mobile phone sector, a measure announced on Wednesday by Planning Minister Julio De Vido.

• Thursday, September 6th 2012 - 05:55 UTC

  Argentine Security ministry tells local police not to follow Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina’s Security Ministry issued a tough press release in response to the alleged police operative deployed by the Santa Cruz government in order to monitor the activities of President Cristina Fernández last weekend.