Argentina

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:27 UTC

  Argentine top magistrate cautions pickets blocking bridge leading to Uruguay

  

  Argentina’s Supreme Court president Ricardo Lorenzetti said that the blockade by Argentine pickets impeding, since 2006 crossing to neighbouring Uruguay, to protest the construction of a pulp mill, is “unsustainable”.

• Saturday, June 5th 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Argentina’s commercial hake fishery has “two years left”

  

  Over the last 20 years abundance of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) has declined 80% in the Southwest Atlantic as a result of over-fishing, claims Argentina’s Fundación Vida Silvestre, Wild Life Foundation, (FVSA).

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 19:02 UTC

  Falklands’ thick fog forces two RAF Typhoons and tanker to land in Punta Arenas

  

  Two Royal Air Force Euro Typhoon fighters and their Vickers VC10 refuelling tanker had to land Wednesday afternoon in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, because of adverse weather conditions in the Falkland Islands Mount Pleasant Airport.

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 05:11 UTC

  Mounting pressure in Argentina for Justice to order removal of pickets

  

  Pressure is mounting in Argentina for pickets blocking an international bridge leading to Uruguay to be ordered removed by a court order, following Wednesday’ presidential summit when Uruguay’s Jose Mujica and Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner agreed on a joint agenda of pending issues.

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 01:26 UTC

  Argentina planning to develop nuclear powered vessels for the Navy

  

  Argentina is seriously considering incorporating nuclear powered vessels to the Navy and constructing topsides for naval ships and oil rigs. However this will have to be developed with Argentine technology, said Defence minister Nilda Garré.

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 00:42 UTC

  Argentine record tax revenue also transcends soaring inflation

  

  Argentine tax revenue soared in May in line with robust economic growth as consumers spent more on goods and services and prices rose amid soaring inflation. According to official data from AFIP, the federal tax revenue agency collected 44% more revenue in May than it did a year ago.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2010 - 06:30 UTC

  Mujica and CFK agree to implement bilateral monitoring of the River Uruguay

  

  Uruguay and Argentina pledged Wednesday to advance in a wide ranging 27-point agenda but most important to work within a 60-day scheme to perform a bilateral monitoring of the shared river Uruguay, where the construction of a pulp mill on the Uruguayan side soured bilateral relations for several years.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2010 - 06:28 UTC

  Argentina unable to lift Chinese ban on soy-oil imports in first round of talks

  

  The Argentine trade mission sent to Beijing was unable to lift the ban on soy-oil imports imposed by China on Argentina. The Argentine delegation returned with the promise that further talks will be taking place but no dates were revealed.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2010 - 05:52 UTC

  Mrs Kirchner defends ‘imports’ restrictions’; blames the media for the coverage

  

  President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner once again rejected that Argentina has adopted restrictions on imports, although she admitted “there isn't a country in the world that, through fiscal promotions or tariffs, doesn't have those mechanisms” of barriers for the entry of foreign products.

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 - 23:12 UTC

  Argentina “leading country” in nuclear energy development

  

  Argentina is a showcase for the world in the research and development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and this has been the excellent work of Argentine scientists helping to keep the country’s Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) alive, said President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on the sixtieth anniversary of the institution.