Argentina

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 02:55 UTC

  Argentine farmers’ leader apologizes for offensive remarks against CFK voters

  

  The head of Argentina’s powerful Rural Society Hugo Biolcati rectified his previous controversial statements towards the 50% of the population that chose to vote for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK, during the August 14 primary elections.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 00:41 UTC

  Meeting in Buenos Aires to “recondition Argentine missiles” with Brazilian technology

  

  Brazil’s Minister of Defence Celso Amorim is in Buenos Aires for several scheduled meetings this week with his Argentine counterpart Arturo Puricelli and to establish closer ties in defence issues in the framework of Unasur (Union of South American nations).

• Monday, September 5th 2011 - 01:21 UTC

  Seven presidential candidates confirmed in Argentina, but CFK looks unbeatable

  

  At the closure of the period, seven Argentine presidential tickets registered at the Electoral Justice for the October 23 elections. All seven tickets were confirmed in the 14 August primary elections when President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, trashed all other hopefuls with over 50% of all valid ballots.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 08:19 UTC

  Did Argentina Trade Visas for Holocaust Loot?

  

  A new book about the darker side of Latin-American politics alleges some disturbing dealings between Argentina and Hitler’s cronies.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 07:49 UTC

  Almost half of foreign residents in Argentina are from Paraguay and Bolivia

  

  Of the just over 40 million Argentines, 4.5% are foreigners, according to the latest census, and the most numerous community is made up of over half a million from neighbouring Paraguay.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 07:40 UTC

  Argentine August inflation at 2% pushed by food prices, say private estimates

  

  A surge in fresh food prices has pushed Argentina’s August consumer inflation to one of the highest of the year, 2% over the previous month, according to private consultant estimates and published in the Buenos Aires press.

• Friday, September 2nd 2011 - 22:26 UTC

  Argentina’s industry praises CFK calls for ‘national unity’ to achieve development

  

  Argentina’s powerful industries union, UIA, called on Friday for dialogue and ‘national unit’ in order ‘to bring together a project of development’, and forecasted that if this is achieved the country could triple its GDP in the next twelve years.

• Friday, September 2nd 2011 - 22:22 UTC

  Squid season over in the Argentina/Uruguay common fishing zone

  

  The Argentine/Uruguay Joint Technical Commission for Maritime Front (CTMFM) ordered on Wednesday 31 August the closure of the squid (Illex argentinus) fishing season in the Common Fishing Zone.

• Friday, September 2nd 2011 - 08:45 UTC

  Argentina’s population stands at 40.117.096, up 10.7% from the 2001 census

  

  Argentina has a population of 40.117.096, according to the definitive facts of the 2010 National Population and Home census released by the country’s national statistics and census bureau, Indec.

• Friday, September 2nd 2011 - 08:26 UTC

  Argentina plans to lower unemployment to 5% in the next to years

  

  Argentina’s Deputy Minister of Economy, Roberto Feletti stated on Thursday that the idea of the government is to “reduce the level of unemployment to 5%” in the coming two years.