Argentina

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 03:22 UTC

  Mercosur/Israel trade deal comes into effect following Argentina’s signature

  

  A free trade agreement between Israel and Argentina is set to come into effect on September 9, the Israeli Industry, Trade and Labour Ministry announced this week.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:47 UTC

  Unasur agrees to greater economic coordination but remains divided on Libya

  

  Union of South American Nations, Unasur, Foreign Affairs ministers agreed Wednesday in Buenos Aires to increase economic coordination and send monitoring missions to regional elections but could not reach a common position on the Libyan situation.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:28 UTC

  Argentine steel group Techint begins arbitration proceedings against Venezuela

  

  Steel giant Tenaris, a member of the Argentine group Techint, said on Wednesday that it initiated arbitration proceedings against Venezuela following the nationalization of steelmaker Matesi.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:08 UTC

  Canada to overhaul and expand Argentine nuclear power plant

  

  Argentina signed contracts worth 444 million dollars on Wednesday with a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin Group, Canada's top engineering firm, to extend the shelf-life of its Embalse nuclear plant.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 05:57 UTC

  Argentine organized labour leader stays on; claims “destabilizing campaign”

  

  Argentina’s Secretary General of the CGT Labour Confederation, Hugo Moyano, denied all rumours indicating his imminent departure from the CGT and attributed them to “a destabilizing media operation”. He added he was preparing to defend “workers’ minimum wage”.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 00:15 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez among the 20 most powerful women in the world, says Forbes

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is the second most powerful Latinamerican woman in the world according to a ranking released by Forbes.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 07:00 UTC

  Record DFI in Brazil narrows significantly current account deficit

  

  Brazil's 12-month current account deficit narrowed in July on rising revenue from exports and strong foreign direct investment. The 12-month deficit declined to 47.9 billion dollars or 2.1%, of GDP, from 49 billion, or 2.2% of GDP in June, the central bank said Tuesday.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 06:55 UTC

  Government spending and jobs boost President Cristina Fernandez re-election

  

  With Argentina’s presidential election less than two months away official data is showing why President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is poised to make effective her re-election bid in October.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 06:40 UTC

  Argentine trade surplus shrinks 22% in July as imports outpace exports

  

  Argentina's trade surplus shrank 22% in July from a year earlier to 672 million dollars as import growth continued to outpace exports, the government said on Tuesday. The trade surplus totalled 861 million dollars in July 2010.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 06:38 UTC

  French tourists: two men charged with cover-up for hiding gun used in crime

  

  Two men were charged on Tuesday of cover-up in the case that investigates the abuse and killing of the two French tourists in the north-west Argentine province of Salta, the judicial spokesman Marcelo Báez reported.