Argentina

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:27 UTC

  “The Islands” inspired in the Falklands, a novel about Argentine lost dreams

  

  A novel ‘The Islands’ inspired by the Falkland Islands War and written by Argentine author Carlos Gamerro has been published in English.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 06:24 UTC

  The Argentine tax man reviewing football players transfers and contracts

  

  The head of Argentina’s tax office, AFIP Ricardo Echegaray announced in a press conference the agency had blocked the identification of 146 taxpayers connected to the football business. “We have to ensure football’s coherency and transparency” he remarked.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 05:54 UTC

  Argentina wants to cut Falklands’ squid catches flooding the area with jiggers

  

  Argentina is planning the incorporation of Chinese jiggers to catch Illex squid next season, a decision rejected by the local fishing chambers but which according to the Buenos Aires financial media is linked to the sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands and surrounding waters.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 04:30 UTC

  Opinion poll shows Cristina Fernandez rapidly losing support; crime and inflation main concerns

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández popularity sank to 30% in August, less than half of what it was a year earlier, according to a poll published on Sunday that portrayed a country worried about crime and high inflation.

• Friday, August 24th 2012 - 06:14 UTC

  YPF announces massive exploration program and calls on private investors

  

  Argentina’s nationalized oil and gas corporation YPF announced it has plans to drill 250 wells in the next five years to further advance the country’s “hydrocarbons frontier”. During a presentation at a posh hotel in Buenos Aires under the heading of “Argentine Exploration Plan”, YPF CEO Miguel Galuccio called on investors to trust him and support the plan.

• Friday, August 24th 2012 - 06:03 UTC

  Argentina blasts the credit-risk agencies and warns of global “anarchy-capitalism”

  

  Members from the Argentine government defended the “Kirchner inclusive development model” and blasted the credit-risk rating agencies while warning of the existence of a financial “anarchy-capitalism” which is suffocating the economies of the world.

• Friday, August 24th 2012 - 01:04 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez in “good health condition” but still in rest and recovery

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández is in “in a good health condition” after she cancelled all her official activities on Wednesday due to a low blood pressure bout, doctors informed on Thursday.

• Friday, August 24th 2012 - 00:48 UTC

  Argentina challenges the US in trade and reaffirms current economic policies

  

  The administration of President Cristina Fernandez again challenged the United States on the “trade restrictions in place against Argentine products” which it claims are part of “a protectionist policy inconsistent with from the World Trade Organization”.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2012 - 06:38 UTC

  Argentina promulgates tax data exchange bill, but Uruguay still has to vote it

  

  The Argentine government on Wednesday promulgated the tax agreement reached with Uruguay geared to lower fiscal evasion and elusion plus avoiding double taxing for residents from the neighbouring countries.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2012 - 06:31 UTC

  Argentina/US trade conflict escalates following Argüello claims and strong reply from Washington

  

  The current war of words over trade barriers going on between the US and Argentina further escalated tensions on Wednesday as Argentine Ambassador to the US Jorge Argüello highlighted: “the United States has been reported for a number of trade law violations.”