Argentina

• Thursday, March 11th 2010 - 00:37 UTC

  Argentine government blames Shell and Petrobras for gasoline shortage

  

  Argentina's government accused energy companies Royal Dutch Shell and Petrobras on Wednesday of deliberately causing gasoline shortages in order to force rival YPF to raise its prices.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:33 UTC

  Mrs Kirchner escalates clash with Judiciary, implies censorship from the Court

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner escalated Tuesday the clash with the Judiciary branch saying that when the magistrates call for “moderation”, the expression seems to rhyme with “censorship” since they don’t realize “the weight they hold”.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:28 UTC

  Pro-Kirchner picket leader meets in Iran with fugitive from Argentine law

  

  Argentine pro-government picket leader Luis D'Elía, justified his trip to Iran and his meeting with Mohsen Rabbani, a former Iranian official who is considered to be one of the masterminds in the 1994 deadly terrorist attack of the Buenos Aires AMIA Jewish centre and remains fugitive from the Argentine law.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 05:49 UTC

  Argentina’s YPF imports fuel to meet demand for the first time in 30 years

  

  Argentine-Spanish oil company YPF said on Tuesday that it plans to import 50 million litres of gasoline as demand outstrips supply. Argentina, an oil-producing country where fuel is subject to government price controls, has not imported gasoline in 30 years.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2010 - 22:33 UTC

  Russian company sets up sturgeon farm in Argentina to produce caviar

  

  The Russian company Sturgeon & Caviar is set to begin in coming weeks the production of caviar in the Argentine northern province of La Rioja according to local government sources.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 19:05 UTC

  Coordinated restrictions for hake fishing in Patagonia’s San Jorge Gulf

  

  Argentine Fisheries Director Norberto Yauhar suspended the initiative to limit common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) fishing in waters of San Jorge gulf following a meeting with fisheries officials from Patagonian provinces.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentina awarded the Oscar for the best foreign language film

  

  The Argentine film “The Secret in Their Eyes” a thriller about a 25-year-long manhunt, which paints rough times in recent Argentine political history, won the Academy Award for best foreign language film.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:48 UTC

  Argentine government tells Congress it will pay debts with reserves

  

  Argentine government officials reiterated over the weekend that despite efforts from the opposition to stop the Government, it would service the public debt with the Central Bank foreign reserves.

• Saturday, March 6th 2010 - 12:02 UTC

  Kirchner administration escalates dispute with Congress over bank reserves

  

  Argentine Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo assured on Friday that it's not the Senate's prerogative “to designate the Central Bank Governor,” and informed that their only task is to check whether the person appointed by the Executive “is suitable for the seat or not”.

• Saturday, March 6th 2010 - 11:59 UTC

  Argentina trusts it will reach understanding with bond holders’ end of March

  

  Argentina will make an offer to restructure the 20 billion US dollars of defaulted debt by the end of this month, Economy Minister Amado Boudou said on Friday.