Argentina

• Saturday, June 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Buenos Aires: Candidates compete for the last word

  

  Brutal government intervention,“ is what mayoral candidate Jorge Telerman blamed for the fact that his rival Daniel Filmus had managed to climb a few percentage points in the polls for Sunday's City elections. He made his remarks as the curtain fell on the 2007 mayoral campaign — after 8am yesterday morning all campaigning was banned.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Antarctic Chill Kills 31 In Argentina

  

  The cold spell that gripped Argentina since early this week has left 31 dead, the Spanish news agency EFE reported.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  False passport of Nazi Eichmann found in Buenos Aires court

  

  The false passport used by high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann in 1950 to escape to Argentina was accidentally discovered in an old court record in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  India and Argentina business leaders have longest work week

  

  Business leaders in India and Argentina work the longest hours, clocking up to 57 hours a week, according to a survey published this week, while Italians work the shortest week at 47 hours.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Record demand collapses Bs As natural gas system

  

  Private car owners and taxi drivers waited patiently in long queues early Wednesday morning in Buenos Aires, hoping to load their fuel tanks although most compressed natural gas CNG stations remained closed or working with an only pump.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner government: “monumental hypocrites”

  

  The government of Argentina are “monumental hypocrites” regarding their own environmental record and continue to fuel the discord by feeding misinformation about the Botnia pulp mill under construction near the Uruguayan city of Fray Bentos, claims a Canadian environmental scientist in a letter addressed to MercoPress.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Buenos Aires Sunday vote signals start of electoral calendar

  

  Next Sunday Argentina's capital will be voting for a new mayor (governor) and given the political significance of Buenos Aires City June 3 will be signaling the beginning of five long months of electoral battling culminating October 28 with the election, most probably, of another Kirchner (Mr. or Mrs.)

• Monday, May 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina: Vessels quit fishing squid for lack of markets

  

  Abundance in offer added to the lack of new markets and storage space for squid (Illex argentinus) landings, is driving vessels belonging to companies of Galician capital operating in Argentine waters away from the fishery grounds once their cargo space is filled.

• Saturday, May 26th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner tunes political project for October elections

  

  Argentine President Néstor Kirchner marked on Friday his four years in office reaffirming his call for a “concertation” – or alliance of different political forces — ahead of the October's presidential election. However, he remained tight-lipped on who will be the ruling Peronist party's candidate.

• Friday, May 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Dancing with whales, live to the world from Patagonia

  

  The filming and live broadcasting to the world of the annual coming of the whales to Peninsula Valdes in Patagonia begun this Friday and will extend until next Sunday courtesy of the Chubut province government site Whales Alive plus Google and Messenger.