Argentina

• Tuesday, June 30th 2009 - 14:56 UTC

  Kirchner quits the presidency of the Peronist 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 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

  

  “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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Thursday, June 25th 2009 - 17:27 UTC

  Argentina’s industrial production falls for fifth month running

  

  Argentine industrial production fell 1.7% in May from a year earlier and was down 0.2% on the month, according to the latest release from the country’s Statistics Institute. This is the fifth month running that industrial production has been contracting.

• Thursday, June 25th 2009 - 17:12 UTC

  Argentina/ Chile react differently to Brazil’s travel warning on flu

  

  Argentina and Chile reacted differently to this week’s advice from the Brazilian government against travelling to A/H1N1 virus flu-stricken Argentina and Chile by people older than 60 and younger than 2 as well as those with weakened immune systems.

• Thursday, June 25th 2009 - 10:06 UTC

  Canadian oil company begins exploration drilling in Patagonia’s San Jorge basin

  

  Canada’s Crown Point Ventures Ltd announced that in early to mid July it expects to be commencing the drilling of a three well exploration drilling program at El Valle in the San Jorge basin of Argentine Patagonia.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2009 - 15:21 UTC

  Rescuers find gold cargo in South Atlantic sunken vessel

  

  The 9.6 tons of gold and silver which the Chilean trawler Polar Mist was transporting are in the vessel’s hold in waters 80 metres deep and some 40 kilometres offshore southern Patagonia, according to sources close to the rescue operation and reported in the Argentine press