Argentina

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 07:14 UTC

  Salaries in Argentina averaged a 27.6% increase in the last twelve months

  

  Salaries in Argentina averaged an increase of 27.6% in the last twelve months to June, boosted mainly by agreements in the private sector, reported Monday the country’s National Statistics Institute, Indec.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 07:10 UTC

  Timerman ‘appalled’ by ‘heinous’ killing of French tourists in north Argentina

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman sent a letter to his French counterpart, Alain Juppé, in which he expressed being “appalled” over the killing of two French tourists in the Salta province.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 22:51 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina summit will address canal dredging and power transmission

  

  The dredging of the Uruguay River and access to the Martin Garcia canal as well as importing power from Paraguay are the two main issues of the agenda to be addressed by Presidents Jose Mujica and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner when they meet Tuesday in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 20:40 UTC

  Polar front freezes Argentina and Uruguay with below zero temperatures

  

  A polar front advancing over Argentina and Uruguay dragged the thermometers Monday morning in yet another freezing day in the south of the continent. Below zero temperatures were registered in several locations reaching minus 16,2 Celsius in Malargüe, Mendoza Province, according to Argentina’s Meteorological Service (SMN).

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 20:30 UTC

  French women killed in Argentina described as brilliant students in Latam affairs

  

  Argentine police detained for questioning a local horse renter in relation to the brutal murder of two French tourists – Moumni Hour and Cassandre Bouvier – found dead with gunshot wounds on Friday at a hiking trail in Quebrada de San Lorenzo, Salta province, 1600 Km northwest of Buenos Aires.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 20:23 UTC

  ”We’re the first force nationally and second in Buenos Aires City”, says cabinet chief

  

  Argentine Chief of Staff, Aníbal Fernández, came on stage Monday after the Buenos Aires City runoff elections to give his breakdown of Sunday’s events which have been described by political analysts a landslide victory for the incumbent mayor Mauricio Macri.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 06:51 UTC

  Argentina planning a “nuclear powered” submarine with conventional weapons

  

  Argentina is considering the development of “nuclear propulsion” for its diesel-engine submarines, according to Defence minister Arturo Puricelli. The initiative follows a request from President Cristina Fernandez and is closely linked to Brazil’s construction of a first nuclear powered submersible with French technology.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 06:25 UTC

  Brazil reiterates Falklands-flagged vessels will be banned from entering its ports

  

  Brazil reiterated its intention of banning all Falklands’ flagged vessels from calling at the country’s ports and described as “illegal” the current round of oil exploration in the Islands’ waters.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 05:44 UTC

  Argentine police on the track of two French tourist packers killed in Salta

  

  Police in the Argentine north-west province of Salta reported to have two suspects following a wide search Sunday across the local area of San Lorenzo for the killer of the two French tourists whose bodies were found on Friday, officials reported.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 05:36 UTC

  Re-elected Bs. As. City mayor to meet all presidential candidates, even CFK

  

  Re-elected Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri gave his victory speech after defeating Kirchnerite Daniel Filmus on Sunday, and said his party (PRO) would begin the process of deciding which of the presidential candidates to support in Argentina’s general elections of next October.