Argentina

• Saturday, June 12th 2010 - 04:54 UTC

  Argentine ministers call on pickets to abandon roadblock leading to Uruguay

  

  Argentine ministers went public again on Friday to insist that there are no excuses left for keeping a roadblock on a bridge leading to neighbouring Uruguay, a long standing protest since 2006 against the construction of the Botnia pulp mill.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 23:20 UTC

  Argentine industrial activity soared 13.1% in May and 11.8% in first four months

  

  According to the Argentine Industrial Union, the manufacturing sector grew 13.1% in April in comparison with the same month of 2009, with the automotive and the iron and steel industries as key pillars.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 23:10 UTC

  Spanish group Viajes Marsans (former owners of Aerolineas Argentinas) sold

  

  Spanish travel company Viajes Marsans S.A., the parent company of bankrupt airline Air Comet, has been sold to Posibilitum Business for 600 million euros (720 million USD), the parties to the deal said this week.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 23:08 UTC

  Buenos Aires City Mayor fined for riding a motorcycle without a helmet

  

  Buenos Aires City Traffic Safety Committee confirmed that City Mayor Mauricio Macri has been fined for having ridden on a motorcycle without a helmet.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 20:55 UTC

  Positive outlook for the Argentine economy according to international bank

  

  Argentine stocks are poised to a boost from a likely decline in the nation’s credit risk by year-end and the presidential elections in 2011, according to analysts from Spain’s Banco Santander, one of the leading financial institutions in Latinamerica.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 06:06 UTC

  Argentina reaffirms “exclusive authority” over all Falklands’ hydrocarbons activities

  

  Argentina reaffirmed “exclusive authority” over all hydrocarbons activities in the Islas Malvinas territory and maritime spaces in a strong release to commemorate June 10th, Day of Argentina’s Sovereignty Rights over Malvinas.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 00:04 UTC

  Taiana announces in Shanghai Cristina’s official visit to China next July

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is scheduled to make an official visit to China and meet with President Hu Jintao next July, announced Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana during his visit to the Argentine pavilion in the Shanghai World Expo.

• Thursday, June 10th 2010 - 07:04 UTC

  Beginning of the end to Argentine pickets blocking bridge leading to Uruguay

  

  Argentina has filed criminal and civil charges against activists who have been blocking a bridge leading to Uruguay for over four years, announced on Wednesday cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez. The charges mark a sharp departure from the hands-off line taken up to now with the activists.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:13 UTC

  Federal Judge says Argentine government must guarantee “free circulation”

  

  An Argentine federal Judge confirmed that the government should “guarantee the free circulation” of the bridge that links the Argentine city of Gualeguaychú with the Uruguayan city Fray Bentos.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:10 UTC

  US dollar breaks through the 4 pesos barrier in Buenos Aires informal market

  

  The new foreign currency controls that begun to be applied this week in Argentina had a marginal incidence in formal operations Tuesday, but in the parallel informal market the US dollar, under strong demand shot past the 4 Pesos milestone.