Argentina

• Saturday, July 10th 2010 - 07:18 UTC

  Argentine agro-exports help boost international reserves to over 50 billion USD

  

  Argentina’s international reserves once again exceeded the 50 billion US dollars mark, boosted by an intervention to the Central Bank by the market in a record purchase of 262 million USD.

• Saturday, July 10th 2010 - 07:13 UTC

  School comic strips to depict the turbulent IMF/Argentina relation

  

  Argentina high school students are enjoying four comic strips, part of the official program, which satirizes the turbulent relation of the country with the IMF, presenting one of the works under the attractive name of “An intruder in the family”.

• Friday, July 9th 2010 - 07:07 UTC

  Argentina: Toothfish TAC set

  

  Argentine Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) established the total allowable catch (TAC) for toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) of 3,250 tonnes for the current year.

• Friday, July 9th 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Kirchner couple fortune climbs 20.6% in one year totalling 14.5 million USD

  

  The fortune of Argentine presidential couple, President Cristina Kirchner and her immediate predecessor and husband, Nestor Kirchner jumped 20.6% in 2009 totalling the equivalent of 14.5 million US dollars, and soared 700% since they first took office in 2003, according to their latest income statements delivered to the country’s Anti Corruption Office.

• Friday, July 9th 2010 - 04:36 UTC

  Kirchner ‘social grassroots leader” proposes celebrating “Son of the b… Day”

  

  A thug described as a “social grassroots leader” belonging to the Kirchner couple’s ‘black shirts’ cadres has proposed Argentina celebrate August 2 as the Day of the “Son of a b….” which is when former military dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was born.

• Thursday, July 8th 2010 - 08:13 UTC

  Argentina analyzing Uruguayan counterproposal for joint river monitoring plan

  

  “The ball is now on the Argentine court” said Uruguayan Vice-president Danilo Astori commenting on the country’s counterproposal for the monitoring plan to be jointly applied with Argentina to pulp mills, other industries and urban locations straddling the shared River Uruguay.

• Thursday, July 8th 2010 - 07:59 UTC

  EU court ruling favours Argentina in dispute with Monsanto over soy-seed patent

  

  United States Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed company, can’t use a European patent on its Roundup Ready soybeans to block Argentinean soy meal imports, the European Union’s highest court said Wednesday.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2010 - 07:07 UTC

  Argentina downplays protest involving Chilean students Falklands’ visit

  

  The Argentine consul in Punta Arenas downplayed the alleged repercussions of the recent trip of eight Chilean students to the Falkland Islands allegedly in the framework of a “written understanding” between the extreme south Chilean city council and Falklands authorities.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2010 - 06:58 UTC

  Uruguay concerned with Argentine ‘naval harassment’ in South Atlantic international waters

  

  Uruguayan merchant and naval shipping is under continuous harassment from the Argentine Navy in South Atlantic international waters, a new chapter of the difficult relations between the neighbouring countries, reports Montevideo’s main daily El Pais, quoting undisclosed Parliament sources.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2010 - 06:50 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner to Beijing to mend trade relations with China

  

  Argentine president Cristina Kirchner will be signing 10 billion US dollars in trade agreements with China during her official visit to the Asian giant scheduled to begin next July 13, according to Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman.