Argentina

• Saturday, July 21st 2012 - 06:44 UTC

  Argentine collar clamp has sentenced businessman ‘trapped’ in Uruguay

  

  An Argentine businessman who was sentenced in Uruguay to home arrest following a car accident in which one person died remains at the location of the crime because his family in Argentina have been unable to purchase the 5.000 US dollars bail needed for his release.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 08:27 UTC

  Argentines inflation expectations for the next 12 months in July climbed to 35.7%

  

  Argentines inflation expectation for the next twelve months climbed in July to 35.7% from 34.9% in June according to the latest report form the Di Tella University Finance research centre (UTDT).

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 08:21 UTC

  Argentina blasts WTO for its biased and tendentious reports on world trade

  

  The Argentine government, together with Brazil, India and South Africa questioned the inclination, almost bias, of some trade measures elaborated by the World Trade Organization Director General.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 08:07 UTC

  Argentina announces development of huge potassium deposits with Brazil

  

  President Cristina Fernández announced on Thursday the development of a mining project between Neuquén, Mendoza and Río Negro provinces which will led by Brazilian company Vale, and is expected to become the largest potassium mining site in the world.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 02:40 UTC

  Argentine government entities can only buy fuel from YPF

  

  Argentina's state entities must purchase diesel, gasoline and lubricant supplies for cars, boats and planes solely from YPF, the recently nationalized oil company, and not competitors like ExxonMobil, Petrobras or Shell, the government ordered Thursday.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 23:35 UTC

  Further ‘parsimonious’ monetary-easing anticipated from Brazilian central bank

  

  Brazil’s central bank reiterated that inflation will continue to slow toward its target, signalling it will further reduce interest rates that have already been cut to a record.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 22:36 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez unleashes tax agency against opponents, claims The Economist

  

  Under the heading of “Knock, knock, the government unleashes the tax agency against its opponents” The Economist latest edition claims that President Cristina Fernandez is using the tax revenue office to hound its political enemies.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 20:50 UTC

  Argentines main concern insecurity, but also greater satisfaction with democracy

  

  The main concern of Argentines is insecurity, followed at a distance by poverty according to a public opinion poll released this week in Buenos Aires, which also revealed that one out of three interviewed had been victims of some kind of criminal activity.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 20:43 UTC

  Argentina’s top agro-show opens with strong criticism of government farm policies

  

  The head of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA) Hugo Biolcati blasted the national and provincial governments economic policies towards the agricultural sector during his opening remarks at the inauguration of the 126 annual edition of the entity’s exhibition held at La Rural pavilion in Palermo, Buenos Aires City.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 08:23 UTC

  Bolivia agrees to sell more gas to Argentina under an ‘interruptible’ contract

  

  Argentina and Bolivia signed on Wednesday new agreements to increase the sale of Bolivian natural gas to its southern neighbour but the controversial issue of a price review went unnoticed.