Argentina

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 14:51 UTC

  Argentina: Squid fishing season extended

  

  The Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) has unanimously decided to extend the squid (Illex argentinus) fishing season taking place north of latitude 44º by 20 days. The closing date was originally scheduled for 31 August.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 06:48 UTC

  Argentine to increase budget defence 50%, recovering losses of Falklands war

  

  Defence minister Nilda Garré said the Argentine government would increase the defence budget in coming years from 0.9% to 1.5% of GDP to help overcome decades of divestment following the defeat in the (1982) Falklands/Malvinas war.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 06:02 UTC

  Brazilian beef producer wants to sell abattoirs and reduce Argentine operations

  

  Brazil’s JBS, the world's top beef producer is trying to sell three of its Argentine plants due to government policies that have depleted cattle stocks and supply and hurt profits, a trade group said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 05:43 UTC

  Falklands’ veteran returns trumpet to Argentine POW

  

  The Argentine jets screamed overhead the young paratrooper from Dundee, dropping their deadly payloads over Sussex Mountain. For Tony Banks, the Falklands war had become real and terrifying as the battle for Goose Green got under way.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 02:44 UTC

  UK and US media blast the Kirchners for attempting “to lock-hold the press”

  

  British daily Financial Times ran an op-ed Tuesday morning blasting Argentina’s presidential couple for their attempt to “secure a lock-hold on Argentina’s press,” and accusing them of mirroring the “black arts” tactics of the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary party.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 02:13 UTC

  Timerman visits Paraguay, announces two new bridges linking with Argentina

  

  Argentina’s Foreign Affaire minister Hector Timerman announced Tuesday in Asuncion the construction of two new bridges linking Argentina with Paraguay and the upgrading of an existing one.

• Tuesday, August 31st 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina implement the end of the pulp mill dispute

  

  Argentina and Uruguay signed Monday in Montevideo the agreement which puts an end to an ongoing years-long litigation over the construction of a pulp mill along a shared river.

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 06:36 UTC

  Timerman expected in Montevideo to coordinate monitoring of River Uruguay

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman will meet Monday in Montevideo with his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro, to advance with the implementation of the scientific committee that will monitor the UPM (ex Botnia) pulp mill and the River Uruguay.

• Saturday, August 28th 2010 - 07:01 UTC

  Argentina company opens first algae bio-diesel plant

  

  An Argentine company opened on Friday the country's first factory to make bio-diesel from algae, hoping to use it as a replacement for soy in making bio-diesel as part of a push for renewable energy.

• Saturday, August 28th 2010 - 06:58 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner sends bill declaring production of newsprint of “public interest”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sent the project that aims to declare of “public interest” the production and distribution of newsprint to the Lower House of Congress, where it is believed the opposition's A Group would vote against the bill; however, centre-left parties might join the pro-government initiative.