Argentina

• Monday, July 27th 2009 - 11:59 UTC

  Majority of Argentine women dissatisfied with their bodies and looks

  

  An overwhelming majority of Argentine women, 95%, are dissatisfied with their bodies and the main reason is over weight, according to a public opinion poll released Saturday by one of Buenos Aires main dailies, Clarin.

• Saturday, July 25th 2009 - 11:53 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil will address “trade differences” in Sao Paulo

  

  Argentina and Brazil agreed to hold talks next week to address the ongoing trade differences which threaten to sour the bilateral relation. The meeting of Presidents Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Lula da Silva was held on the sidelines of the Friday Mercosur summit in Paraguay.

• Friday, July 24th 2009 - 13:54 UTC

  Argentine scientists identified the complete genome of A/H1N1 virus

  

  Argentine health authorities announced this week they had identified the complete genome of the A/H1N1 flu virus which so far has caused almost 200 deaths according to official numbers.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2009 - 14:50 UTC

  Snow blanket reaches outskirts of Buenos Aires city

  

  Parts of the city of Buenos Aires were covered in snow on Wednesday as temperatures plummeted to below zero in most of Argentina. Snow was reported in the provinces of Rio Negro, San Luis, San Juan and Cordoba and along most of the Buenos Aires province coastline.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 - 21:53 UTC

  Nestor Kirchner, “a complicated character” who is “out of control”

  

  Former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner is “out of control”, he has a “complicated personality”, said Chubut province governor Mario Das Neves, once an ally but now clearly distanced from the husband of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 - 13:45 UTC

  Argentina implements changes in the Statistics agency

  

  Argentina's Economy ministry will have increased control over the national statistics and census agency, Indec, announced on Tuesday the government in a bid to restore credibility to the country's consumer price data.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 - 13:38 UTC

  Pensions for Argentine members of failed attempt to capture the Falklands in 1966

  

  The Peronist government of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires will grant a special pension to the nationalist group of 18 civilians who in 1966 took command of a commercial flight to Rio Gallegos and had it re-routed to the Falkland Islands with the purpose of taking over the Malvinas for Argentina.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2009 - 11:19 UTC

  Argentina’s primary surplus falls for seventh month running

  

  Argentina's primary budget surplus plunged 65% in June compared to year earlier, marking the seventh straight month of worsening budget results, the government said on Monday.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2009 - 10:43 UTC

  EU/Mercosur talks expected to resume in 2010

  

  European Union Foreign Relations Commissar, Benita Ferrero-Waldner said on Monday that the Spanish presidency of the European Union in 2010 “should be a good moment and opportunity” to resume the stalled discussions of the European block with Mercosur.

• Monday, July 20th 2009 - 13:40 UTC

  New Argentine economy minister confirms Kirchner’s model

  

  Argentine Economy minister Amado Boudu discarded the implementation of “shock measures” and anticipated some changes will take place “to strengthen some institutions”. But he emphatically confirmed the continuation on course of “the 2003 political project”.