Argentina

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 05:22 UTC

  When the Kirchners are over, Argentina will be a “minefield not a country”

  

  According to new Wikileaks cables unveiled by Spanish daily El Pais, Argetnina’s former Santa Fe governor Carlos Reutemann told US diplomats that “whoever comes after the Kirchner administrations will inherit a mine field” instead of a country.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 05:08 UTC

  Petrobras third largest oil company on market capitalization

  

  Based on market capitalization Brazilian government managed oil and gas company Petrobras ranked third worldwide according to the prestigious PFC Energy 50 list of the world's biggest energy companies.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 05:03 UTC

  Argentine industry warns: inflation is like a hard drug that creates “illusions and social tensions”

  

  Argentina’s Industrial Union’s vice president, and FIAT Argentina’s head Cristiano Ratazzi, warned Monday that “inflation is like a drug that creates illusions but also social tensions”.

• Monday, February 7th 2011 - 20:41 UTC

  Argentina conditions luxury car imports to deals with Mercosur auto-parts industry

  

  Argentina has stopped the import of high-class luxury cars and redoubled efforts to convince companies with no assembly plants in Mercosur to reduce imports and reach export agreements with Argentine auto parts industry.

• Sunday, February 6th 2011 - 20:38 UTC

  Inflation, an old scourge, plagues Argentina again, says NY Times

  

  Argentina is in the midst of a consumption boom, but inflation that old Argentine plague, has once again fully surfaced, writes the New York Times Alexi Barrionuevo from Buenos Aires.

• Sunday, February 6th 2011 - 19:30 UTC

  Unilateral facts, indeed

  

  By Andrés Cisneros for the Herald
  
  Peter Pepper and Graham Pascoe, who have spent years writing profusely on the issue, have just written a new article seeking to enlighten us on Malvinas rights.

• Sunday, February 6th 2011 - 08:16 UTC

  Argentine aborigine children die of malnutrition and poor sanitary conditions

  

  An Argentine incumbent governor from the northern province of Salta admitted in a television interview that at least five children died of malnutrition last year and so far this year another case has been registered. Cases involve mostly the indigenous population.

• Saturday, February 5th 2011 - 08:30 UTC

  One of the US most wanted fugitives captured in Buenos Aires

  

  Paul Merle Eischeid, one of the United States 15 most wanted fugitives, was captured in Buenos Aires by local authorities. He was living in the posh county of San Isidro with his Argentine girl friend.

• Saturday, February 5th 2011 - 08:26 UTC

  Two killed in shoot-out following intentional looting derailment of train in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine security officials acknowledged that, “an armed group” was responsible for the “intentional derailment” of the freight train incident that occurred Thursday in the province of Buenos Aires causing a violent outbreak between locals and police, with at least two people killed and various injured.

• Friday, February 4th 2011 - 21:53 UTC

  Argentina still haunted by the holdouts from the 2001 default

  

  Argentina’s attempts to return to global credit markets nine years after its 2001/02 default received this week mixed results. New York Federal Judge Thomas Griesa has issued a ruling urging Argentina to pay 54.33 million Euros (US$75.1 million) to the Capital Ventures International Fund.