Argentina

• Wednesday, July 15th 2009 - 11:51 UTC

  The Kirchner couple fortune soared 158% last year: totals 12.1 million US dollars

  

  The fortune of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her husband and former president Nestor Kirchner soared 158% in 2008 having reached the equivalent of 12.1 million US dollars according to sworn statements from the couple published Tuesday in the Buenos Aires press.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2009 - 11:39 UTC

  Divers have recovered part of the gold lost in the South Atlantic

  

  Part of the gold and silver which went down in the South Atlantic, off Patagonia, with the Chilean flagged trawler converted into a transport vessel “Polar Mist”, has been winched aboard the rescuers’ tug contracted to recover the precious cargo.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2009 - 07:56 UTC

  Argentine inflation cooling as economy slows down

  

  Argentina’s official consumer inflation in June was 0.4%, totalling 5.3% in the last twelve months and 2.7% in the first half of this year, according to the latest release from the controversial Statistics and Census Office, Indec.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 11:14 UTC

  Countdown for Kirchners special powers: August 24

  

  A “D” day has emerged in Argentina’s congressional calendar which helps to explain some of the latest dialogue overtures by the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, according to a columnist from Buenos Aires daily La Nacion.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 11:10 UTC

  Argentina convenes regional meeting to address H1N1 pandemic

  

  Argentina called for a meeting of regional Public Health ministers to address the A/H1N1 virus situation and try to harmonize measures to counterattack the pandemic, announced the Ministry of Health in an official release.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 11:01 UTC

  Argentine corporations expect US dollar to reach 4.30/4.50 pesos in 12 months

  

  A majority of Argentine entrepreneurs believes the local currency will suffer a significant depreciation against the US dollar in the next twelve months according to a poll among 137 leading corporations.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 02:41 UTC

  Argentina requests Non-Aligned Movement observer status

  

  The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries will consider the admission of Argentina and the World Peace Council (WPC) as observers during the XVth. conference and triennial summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, according to a press release distributed by the summit secretariat Sunday.

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 12:16 UTC

  Argentine farmers and industry accept dialogue, but also want “deep changes”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s call to a dialogue with all sectors and “on all issues” received a positive response from farmers and manufactures, but they also requested “deep changes” following the government’s defeat on June 28th mid term election.

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 11:36 UTC

  Falklands’ war air battles marks record rating in Argentina

  

  History Channel established a new record audience rating in Argentina with the June release of “1982: Malvinas, the war from the air”, an original production from the channel which chronicles the clash of the Argentine Air Force with the British Task Force sent to recover the Islands.

• Saturday, July 11th 2009 - 15:31 UTC

  Rescue of gold cargo on South Atlantic seabed begins this week

  

  The rescue and recovery of 9.6 tons of gold and silver on the sea bed of the South Atlantic is scheduled to begin next week with the arrival of Sailor-C, a Vanuatu flagged vessel specifically designed for this kind of operations.