Argentina

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 - 05:05 UTC

  Argentine economy forecasted to grow 6.5% according to Central bank

  

  The Argentine economy is poised to expand by 6.5% or more this year, and unemployment may hover at the lowest level in two decades, the central bank said.

• Monday, May 2nd 2011 - 00:48 UTC

  Argentina looses a master of literature, human rights and common sense

  

  Argentine writer and human rights militant Ernesto Sabato died at his home on Saturday morning at the age of 99. He has been suffering from bronchitis. A physicist by training he became famous because of his writing; however he had not produced any works for quite some time.

• Saturday, April 30th 2011 - 10:03 UTC

  Moyano calls for CFK re-election and wants a finger in companies and Congress

  

  Argentina's powerful organized labour leader Hugo Moyano called for President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, to run for re-election but also asked for greater labour participation in the ballot lists, sharing companies’ profits and seats in the boards of the main corporations.

• Saturday, April 30th 2011 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina and Chile pay homage to John Paul II for his 1984 peace treaty

  

  Argentina’ Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman and his Chilean peer Alfredo Moreno will lead next Monday in the Vatican homage to John Paul II for his 1978 successful mediation in preventing a full fledged armed conflict between the two neighbouring countries.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 21:50 UTC

  Argentina’s construction activity up 4% in March in spite of eight holidays

  

  Argentina's construction activity was up 4% in March from the same month a year ago, the smallest increase in at least 15 months. In comparison, construction activity in March 2010 was up 12.8% on the year.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 21:42 UTC

  Argentina will press ahead with plans to develop small-scale nuclear reactors

  

  Argentina will press ahead with plans to develop a small-scale nuclear reactor over the next three years, even when last month‘s disaster in Japan prompted countries such as Germany and Brazil to reconsider projects.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 05:53 UTC

  Face bombast with reason British official tells Falklands

  

  “IN the face of bombast you can show reason and humanity” was the message a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official carried to the Falklands this week.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 05:34 UTC

  Menem forecasts Cristina’s re-election in October but also the end of Kirchnerism

  

  Former Argentine president Carlos Menem (1989/1999) forecasted ‘a hands-down’ victory for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner next October, although he also forecasted that when her four years are up “it will be the end of Kirchnerism”.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 05:31 UTC

  Argentina arrests the alleged brains behind submarines used to smuggle cocaine

  

  Authorities in Argentina say they have detained a Colombian man they accuse of being the brains behind the submarines used to smuggle drugs to the United States.

• Thursday, April 28th 2011 - 18:48 UTC

  EU report quantifies losses for farmers from a trade accord with Mercosur

  

  A week before the next round of negotiations for an ambitious association and trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, a paper from the EU Joint Research Study centre, JRS, quantifies the alleged losses of such a deal for European farmers.