Argentina

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 01:41 UTC

  Adopted heirs of Argentine media group test negative to first DNA tests

  

  DNA tests from the adopted children of one of Argentina's richest women do not match blood samples from two families who suspect the siblings were stolen as babies from political prisoners in the 1970s, legal sources said on Monday.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 07:34 UTC

  Mayor Macri wins in Buenos Aires; confirms he’s the main opponent to the Kirchner plans

  

  Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri took a 20-point lead on Kirchnerite mayoral candidate Daniel Filmus on Sunday’s election but none of the candidates managed to obtain more than 50% of the votes.

• Sunday, July 10th 2011 - 06:05 UTC

  Buenos Aires City mayoral race seems set for a run off at the end of July

  

  Almost two million and a half Buenos Aires city residents will vote Sunday to elect a new Mayor and Deputy-Mayor for Argentina’s capital from a list of 15 hopefuls although current mayor Mauricio Macri and the central government coalition sponsored candidate Daniel Filmus are expected to re-edit the scenario of four years ago.

• Sunday, July 10th 2011 - 06:00 UTC

  Polls show Mrs Kirchner has an 18 point lead over her runner up

  

  Voter support for Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's re-election rose in the last few weeks but her lead over Congressman Ricardo Alfonsin narrowed slightly as his backing jumped, a poll showed last Wednesday.

• Saturday, July 9th 2011 - 07:35 UTC

  Argentina files criminal charges against consulting firm for publishing inflation data

  

  Argentina's government has filed criminal charges against the managers of an economic consulting firm, escalating its persecution of independent economists. A federal court official said Friday that a judge is evaluating the charges but has yet to decide if it is appropriate to begin investigating them.

• Saturday, July 9th 2011 - 07:03 UTC

  Fiat confirms trade disputes between Argentina and Brazil

  

  Fiat will trim some production in Brazil and Argentina for a week because of a trade spat between the South American neighbours, the Italian car maker said on Friday.

• Saturday, July 9th 2011 - 06:43 UTC

  Volcanic ash again cancels hundreds of flights in the Southern Cone

  

  Clouds of ash spewing from Chile's Puyehue volcano again grounded flights at airports in Uruguay and Argentina, where a major football tournament is being held. Scores of local and international flights were delayed or cancelled in and out of Buenos Aires, regional airport authority Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 said on its website on Friday.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 15:05 UTC

  Punta Arenas fans charter DAP plane to support Chile in match against Uruguay

  

  Early Friday morning a DAP aircraft with over fifty passengers left Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, on a chartered flight for Santiago and then Mendoza, Argentina to be present at this evening’s Chile-Uruguay match for the Copa America.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 02:48 UTC

  Argentine economy, “a frying pan with boiling oil” says IMF top official

  

  The head of the IMF Western Hemisphere Department Nicolas Eyzaguirre described the Argentine economy as “a frying pan with boiling oil”, in direct reference to a possible overheating as was recently warned by The Economist.

• Thursday, July 7th 2011 - 07:11 UTC

  UK Supreme Court rules against Argentina in defaulted sovereign bonds case

  

  A hedge fund owner of defaulted Argentine debt can try to seize government assets held in Britain as it seeks to recover the full face value of the bonds, Britain's Supreme Court said in a ruling on Wednesday.