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Montevideo, May 16th 2025 - 05:20 UTC

Argentina

  • Friday, July 3rd 2009 - 13:52 UTC

    Argentina reports 44 deaths; highest A/H1N1 virus flu mortality rate

    In some hospitals 40% of health care workers are not turning up for work

    Argentine health officials reported 17 more H1N1 flu deaths, bringing the total to at least 44 in the country hardest hit by the A/H1N1 virus in the southern hemisphere. Health Minister Juan Manzur said that “between 43 and 44 deaths” linked to the virus had been confirmed, a significant jump from the 26 that had been reported by the ministry on Friday.

  • Wednesday, July 1st 2009 - 13:00 UTC

    Argentina: health emergency and school vacations extended to fight the flu

    At least 35 people have died from the A/H1N1 virus.

    Authorities in Buenos Aires City and Buenos Aires province declared health emergencies on Tuesday and extended school vacations as the country’s death toll of A/H1N1 virus influenza surged to 35.

  • Wednesday, July 1st 2009 - 12:56 UTC

    “Kirchnerism is finished” but “not the Peronist party”

    Mario Das Neves governor of Chubut and presidential hopeful

    “Kirchnerism is finished” said the governor from the Patagonian province of Chubut and presidential hopeful, Mario Das Neves following a meeting on Tuesday with Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli to discuss the next steps of the Peronist Party.

  • Tuesday, June 30th 2009 - 15:13 UTC

    Mrs. Kirchner downplays defeat and asks for support from Congress

    Opposition in Congress will play a crucial role in the next two years

    Argentine president Cristina Kirchner downplayed the defeat suffered by government candidates in Sunday’s mid term elections and insisted the ruling coalition had won with 31.03% of the overall national vote, denied any cabinet changes and criticized political analysts for their interpretation of election results.

  • Tuesday, June 30th 2009 - 14:56 UTC

    Kirchner quits the presidency of the Peronist party

    Governor Scioli takes over as caretaker president of the hegemonic party.

    Argentine former President Néstor Kirchner announced Monday he had resigned the presidency of the Justicialista (Peronist) Party, in a message that was recorded in the Olivos presidential residency by the official news agency Telam and was aired by the local media.

  • Monday, June 29th 2009 - 15:11 UTC

    Argentina ready to impose flu pandemic “sanitary emergency”

    Health minister Ms Ocaña, latest “victim” of the A/H1N1 virus

    Health authorities confirmed that this week Argentina will be declaring a “sanitary emergency” in the whole country given the advance of the A/H1N1 virus influenza that so far has killed 27 people and infected at least 1.800. Another victim of the pandemic is forecasted to be Public Health minister Graciela Ocaña.

  • Monday, June 29th 2009 - 14:21 UTC

    Victorious Argentine opposition calls on Cristina to begin negotiations

    Nestor Kirchner admitted defeat by a slight margin and anticipated working for a new 2011 alternative.

    “With all respect to our President, (Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner) I hope you have heard the message of the Argentines in the polls and beginning tomorrow (Monday) you will convene us to dialogue”, said the Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri who emerged from Sunday’s mid term election as one of the strongest 2011 presidential hopefuls.

  • Saturday, June 27th 2009 - 14:49 UTC

    Argentina’s mid term election will signal who’s the next Peronist chief

    The “K” time seems to be in twilight of the beginning of the end

    Argentina Sunday’s mid term elections results are not promising for the Kirchner ruling couple. Public opinion polls indicate that the “K” magic of the strong sustained recovery years is over, and the electorate does not agree with the aggressive confrontational style particularly of former president Nestor Kirchner, undoubtedly the “strong man” of Argentina and the “chief” of the hegemonic Peronist movement that has dominated the country’s politics for the last six decades.

  • Friday, June 26th 2009 - 13:02 UTC

    Human-to-swine A/H1N1 virus contagion in Argentine hog farm

    Argentina is rapidly escalating the list of countries with the highest incidence of the A/H1N1 flu.

    Argentine health authorities have detected human-to-swine transmission of the A/H1N1 influenza virus in a farm in the province of Buenos Aires, it was officially reported Thursday.

  • Friday, June 26th 2009 - 03:28 UTC

    Fearful Argentines taking their dollar savings to Uruguay for shelter

    The solidity of the Uruguayan banking system is confirmed by Argentines mistrust of their financial policies.

    Safe deposit boxes in Uruguay are overflowing with US dollars from fearful Argentines concerned about the situation in their country and the results of Sunday’s mid term elections, according to banking sources in Montevideo.