Argentina

• Friday, July 1st 2011 - 01:45 UTC

  Argentina votes compensation for victims of attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires

  

  Relatives of victims of the 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires will receive compensation from Argentina.

• Thursday, June 30th 2011 - 06:53 UTC

  Trade problems between Brazil and Argentina ‘persist’, but can be managed

  

  Trade problems between Mercosur two main partners ‘subsist’, but both sides are optimistic that they can be solved. The revelation in the framework of the Mercosur summit follows weeks of discussions and paralyzing trade, sometimes for weeks at the borders.

• Thursday, June 30th 2011 - 06:50 UTC

  Alleged hackers’ attack cancels Argentine senate debate on digital duties

  

  The Argentine Senate had to cancel a debate scheduled for Wednesday to discuss digital duties following an alleged hackers attack. The bill looks to apply a new tax to the manufacturing of digital media players, whose earnings would go to writers and music composers.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 06:35 UTC

  Argentine election fever: minister accuses UK of keeping hostage “2000 Falklands’ Islanders”

  

  In the midst of Argentina’s campaign for the October presidential election, Defence minister Arturo Puricelli accused the UK of using military force to keep “the Falkland Islanders as hostages” and said Argentina won’t fall prey of “militaristic” provocations.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  Mrs Kirchner changed dancing partners, but organized labour is not happy

  

  Argentina’s organized labour, picket organizations and social groups that have played a crucial role in support of the two Kirchner presidencies (2003/2011) are discontent, and growingly vocal, about their disappointment with President Cristina Fernandez lists of candidates to legislative and provincial posts in the coming October general election.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 06:23 UTC

  Boudou: from liberal economics to running mate of President Cristina Fernández

  

  Three days after Economy Minister Amado Boudou was hand picked by Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to be her running mate in the upcoming presidential elections, he took to Twitter to make his first public statements after the nomination.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 06:20 UTC

  Trade in local currencies and tariffs on the Mercosur agenda for discussion

  

  Argentina Economy Minister Amado Boudou said that the idea of appealing to an only shared currency by Mercosur members generates ‘doubts’ given the European experience, and feels more inclined ‘to stimulate trade with local currencies”, so that each member country can take advantage of monetary policy macroeconomic instruments.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentine Supreme Court rules in favour of pension benefits for same-sex couples

  

  The Argentine Supreme Court ruled in favour of same-sex partners seeking pension benefits. The ruling came after the highest court reversed a previous ruling neglecting a man of any pension benefits after the demise of his partner, whom he had shared his life with for over 40 years.
  Judges said that “the current pensions’ law cannot ignore situations like these.”

• Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 03:57 UTC

  Argentina asks Mercosur to draft an industrial policy and contain Asian imports

  

  Mercosur Ministers of Industry meeting in Paraguay, ahead of the presidential summit, discussed on Tuesday different mechanisms to weaken the flood of ‘cheap’ manufactured goods from Southeast Asia.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 03:53 UTC

  Mercosur ‘structural convergence fund’ has distributed 1.1bn USD in 37 projects

  

  Mercosur structural convergence fund, Focem, which was created in 2005, has distributed 1.1 billion US dollars among its full members for the implementation of 37 projects basically to improve roads for inter-region and international trade, according to official figures released in Asunción.