Argentina

• Friday, October 12th 2012 - 06:06 UTC

  Argentina inflation in nine months of 2012 reached 18%, says “Congress index”

  

  Argentine opposition lawmakers presented on Thursday September’s ‘Congress inflation index’ based in the analysis of nine private agencies, which showed a 1.93% increase against the previous month and 18% in the first nine months of 2012.

• Friday, October 12th 2012 - 05:57 UTC

  Argentina sends top level political mission to Ghana after the ARA Libertad

  

  Argentina is sending a top level ministerial delegation to Ghana to discuss the release of the Navy’s tall vessel ARA Libertad, retained in the African country following a Thursday court ruling which confirmed the seizure on the complaint from a hedge fund.

• Friday, October 12th 2012 - 00:46 UTC

  Argentine energy policy further limits methanol production in south Chile

  

  Canada’s Methanex Corporation announced on Thursday that because of severe restrictions in the provision of natural gas to its plant in the extreme south of Chile, Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, the company is forced to another re-structuring which will leave 48 people redundant.

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 23:20 UTC

  Ghana court denies release of ARA Libertad detained on a complaint from US hedge fund

  

  A Ghana court judge rejected on Thursday the plea put forward by Argentina to release the ARA Libertad training ship, which has been detained in a port close to Accra with its crew since October 2nd due to a complaint by a US hedge fund.

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 07:56 UTC

  British team to drill sub-glacial Antarctic lake and define limits of life in the planet

  

  After 16 years of planning the countdown is on for one of the most ambitious scientific missions to Antarctica. In October a 12-man team of British scientists, engineers and support staff will make the 16.000 km journey from the UK to go deep into the heart of the frozen continent to collect samples of water and sediments from an ancient lake buried beneath three kilometers of ice.

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 05:58 UTC

  The Americas Defence ministers’ conference divided on Falklands/Malvinas issue

  

  Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands continues to generate discrepancies among countries of the Americas, as was exposed in the Declaration of Punta del Este, at the end of the X Conference of Defence Ministers of the Americas which took place in Uruguay.

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 05:39 UTC

  Coast and Border guards conflict finds a culprit and comes to an end

  

  The Argentine Coast and Border Guards conflict came to an end on Wednesday morning following an order for the officers to return to their posts and remain in barracks until new instructions.

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 05:26 UTC

  Seed giant Monsanto suspended in Argentina on allegations of tax irregularities

  

  Argentine authorities suspended the local unit of US seed giant Monsanto from a local grains registry over allegations of tax irregularities. The company denied the allegations in a statement issued late on Wednesday.

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 04:45 UTC

  Argentine central bank confirms no restrictions for governments to purchase dollars

  

  The Argentine central bank confirmed on Wednesday that there is no money exchange restrictions for the federal government or provinces to purchase US dollars to honour public debt issued offshore.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 20:53 UTC

  Cristina, get serious

  

  By Jorge Araya - The Argentine president’s misguided perspective threatens her country.
  (The following piece was published in the Harvard Crimson from Harvard University. It is considered the US oldest continuously published daily college newspaper, was founded in 1873 and incorporated in 1967).