Argentina

• Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community rejects Chavez visit

  Representatives from the Argentine Jewish community expressed their “rejection and shame” over this Monday's visit of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez who has strong political ties with Iran that has forecasted the destruction of Israel and is allegedly linked to a deadly attack on a 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish community center.

• Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  President Kirchner's confidence index keeps eroding

  With less than three months for next October presidential election the Nestor Kirchner administration is going through one of its worst moments since he first took office in May 2003, according to the Confidence Index from the Torcuato Di Tella University.

• Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina offered end of pickets for delay in opening pulp mill

  Uruguay rejected an Argentine proposal for a truce in the pulp mills conflict during the recent two days technical meeting held earlier this week in New York under the “dialogue facilitating efforts” of the Spanish Crown.

• Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Change is just beginning says candidate Cristina Kirchner

  Argentine Senator and presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that in Argentina “change is just beginning” because the current President Kirchner administration has managed to reinstate the constitutional democratic system.

• Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez again to the rescue of Argentina's financial woes

  Argentina' cabinet chief Alberto Fernandez confirmed Thursday that the coming week Venezuela will again purchase Argentine sovereign bonds for which “we Argentines should, and must be fully acknowledged to President Hugo Chavez” for the financial help extended.

• Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  “Fiscal orthodoxy”, once Cristina K becomes president

  Faced with the growing turbulence of global financial markets and Senator Cristina Fernandez October 28 presidential bid Argentine President Nestor Kirchner has instructed his advisors to promote domestic consumption and ensure economic expansion, but as of next November “fiscal revenue must be higher than expenditure” according to reliable political sources in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, August 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina received 17.4% more tourists in half year

  The number of foreign tourists arriving in Argentina during the first half of 2007 increased 17.4% reaching 1.037.226, reported the Argentine Tourism Secretariat.

• Wednesday, August 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Santa Cruz fishing conflict dead locked; Spain concerned

  The fishing industry conflict in Patagonia's Puerto Deseado where striking workers torched six processing plants and has ceased all activities in the sector for almost a month is far from a solution and could further escalate, warn local authorities.

• Sunday, July 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  K Governors complete Kirchner's presidential ticket

  Argentine dissident opposition members proclaimed this Saturday governor Julio Cobos as Cristina Kirchner's ticket companion for the coming October presidential election which according to opinion polls favor the incumbent candidate.

• Sunday, July 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Opinion polls show Cristina K comfortably winning in October

  

  Argentina's First Lady Cristiana Kirchner is set to win the coming October presidential election in the first round with no need of a run off, according to public opinion polls published in Buenos Aires daily Sunday editions.