Argentina

Tuesday, March 15th 2011 - 10:10 UTC
World Bank 480 million USD to finance Argentina’s Universal Child Allowance

Half a million additional kids in Argentina will see their prospects in life improve following the expansion of a popular social protection program with World Bank support.
Tuesday, March 15th 2011 - 09:55 UTC
Repsol continues to cut its holdings in Argentina’s YPF

Repsol YPF, (REP) Spain’s biggest oil company, agreed to sell 3.83% in YPF for 639 million US dollars, cutting its holding in the Argentine unit to 76%, and said it plans to sell more shares through a public offering.
Tuesday, March 15th 2011 - 09:38 UTC
Nobel laureate promises to speak about politics in Buenos Aires book fair

Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa has said he will speak about politics in his inaugural speech at the international book fair in Buenos Aires after a group of intellectuals tried to veto his presence in Argentina, according to the Buenos Aires media.
Monday, March 14th 2011 - 06:58 UTC
CFK on the re-election campaign trail as the ‘natural candidate’

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is the “natural candidate” for next October election to ensure the continuation of the current productive and job creating model, according to several cabinet ministers who attended a political rally in support of the still undeclared candidate.
Monday, March 14th 2011 - 06:53 UTC
Why CFK turned her back on the Obama-mania spell and returned to Chavez

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) behind doors in Government House criticized her peer from Venezuela Hugo Chavez saying “he speaks before stopping to think” and praised US president Barack Obama insisting she was interested in having “closer relations with United States”, according to the latest revelations from Wikileaks.
Sunday, March 13th 2011 - 00:47 UTC
Argentina forgets the US Air Force incident and says relations are “excellent”

Relations between Argentina and the United States are ‘excellent’ said ultra ‘Kirchnerite’ lawmaker Carlos Kunkel who discarded as ‘interested parties’ versions indicating certain ‘discomfort’ in President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner administration with the coming visit of President Barack Obama to El Salvador, Chile and Brazil.
Saturday, March 12th 2011 - 23:12 UTC
New Decolonization Committee president invited to visit Argentina

Argentina is multiplying its international presence to boost the sovereignty claim over the Islas Malvinas, which next June 23, ‘as every year will be ratified’ by the UN Decolonization Committee, said Argentine ambassador at the UN Jorge Argüello according to a report from Telam, the official Argentine news agency.
Saturday, March 12th 2011 - 05:43 UTC
Argentina creates first political wine: ‘El Justicialista’ to honour President Peron

Three times Argentine president Juan Domingo Peron has his own brand of wine, “El Justicialista” following on the name of the populist movement the General founded in the late forties last century and has dominated Argentina politics ever since.
Friday, March 11th 2011 - 04:43 UTC
How Argentina torpedoed Uruguay’s FTA with the US, according to Wikileaks

Although in public former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was supportive of Uruguay’s negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, members of his cabinet warned the US embassy in Buenos Aires that Argentina would block such an initiative in Mercosur, according to the contents of several Wikileaks cables published in Montevideo and Buenos Aires.
Friday, March 11th 2011 - 04:12 UTC
Setback for Timerman: judge files case involving US Air Force aircraft

A new delicate situation has emerged for Argentina’s Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman after a judge decided to file the case involving the seizing of allegedly “sensitive material” from a US Air Force aircraft that landed in Buenos Aires main airport last month.