Argentina

• Friday, October 21st 2011 - 01:45 UTC

  Beef per capita consumption in Argentina drops to half in 53 years

  

  Beef consumption in Argentina registered in 2011 its lowest per capita in 53 years, having dropped approximately 50% from 98.4 kilos in 1958 to 53.4 kilos last June according to the Institute for the Promotion of Beef.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 21:41 UTC

  Argentina/Brazil clash over restrictions to footwear imports

  

  Argentine and Brazilian footwear manufacturers clashed this week over restrictions to trade, mainly through the delay in approving import licences but agreed to keep talking next month in Rio do Janeiro.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  Argentina poised to become a poultry power over the coming years

  

  The Dutch-based agro-investment bank Rabobank believes that Argentina is primed for significant and very competitive growth, where poultry production is concerned over the coming years.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 04:13 UTC

  Mexican group organizing round of conferences on the Falklands/Malvinas war

  

  The Solidarity with Malvinas Islands Group in Mexico is organizing a round of conferences next April/June in coincidence with the 30th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas war to which will be invited academics both from Argentina and the UK.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 00:10 UTC

  Argentina, Brazil and Mexico attempt to harmonize positions ahead of G20

  

  Argentina, Brazil and Mexico meeting in Uruguay ahead of the G-20 summit in France next November, agreed to demand a greater role for the region in global affairs and in helping to resolve the global economic crisis.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 00:03 UTC

  European leader shocked by Argentine arrogance and satisfaction over EU crisis

  

  Spain’s former president Felipe Gonzalez said that Latin American countries which in the eighties suffered financial problems because of the debt crisis are now looking on the European economic situation with “some joy”.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 21:06 UTC

  Who’s the best player ever: Pelé, Maradona, Romario or Messi?

  

  Former Barcelona (1993/95) striker Romario and 1994 World Cup champion came on stage to say that Argentine star Lionel Messi still has some way to go before he can call himself the best player ever.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 16:51 UTC

  EC report claims Argentina and Brazil are increasing trade barriers

  

  Major trading nations led by Argentina, Brazil and Russia are raising barriers to international and threatening the global economic recovery, the European Union's executive arm said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 15:56 UTC

  New book claims ‘overwhelming evidence’ shows Hitler ended his days in Argentina

  

  A new book has claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not kill himself in Berlin in 1945 but ended his days in Argentina

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 07:23 UTC

  After the Falklands war, Brazil helped repatriate Argentine repressor jailed in the UK

  

  The Brazilian dictatorship mediated before London in 1982 to have Navy Captain and notorious repressor Alfredo Astiz, repatriated to Argentina from Britain, where he had been flown after he surrendered the South Georgia garrison to the British Task Force.