Argentina

• Wednesday, August 15th 2012 - 09:37 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez calls workers and companies to be “more rational”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández said on Tuesday that there has always been “clashes and discussions” between companies and their workers but called on both parties to be “rational enough since they need each other in order to avoid collapsing, something we all experienced during the 2002 crisis.”

• Wednesday, August 15th 2012 - 09:02 UTC

  Puricelli praises defence links with Chile and support for Argentine Malvinas claim

  

  Relations with Chile are an example of the fabulous transformation of regional politics in the last three decades, said Argentine Defence minister Arturo Puricelli during a conference at the Chilean military school.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 23:38 UTC

  Mercosur farmers plan to sow record soybean area; stocks drop to half from a year ago

  

  Mercosur farmers in Brazil and Argentina are forecast to plant more soybeans for harvesting this season in response to higher prices, at the expense of wheat and corn sowing, according to Oil World. Paraguay and Uruguay Agriculture ministries have also anticipated an increase in the soybeans planted areas.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 08:12 UTC

  Buenos Aires city underground service back running after ten day strike

  

  Buenos Aires commuters will return to the underground trains on Tuesday following a temporary labour agreement which puts an end to a nerve racking ten-day strike that made the Argentine capital collapse at times

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 08:08 UTC

  YPF plans to issue 760m dollars in bonds; Argentina fuel imports soar in June

  

  Argentina’s nationalized YPF oil and gas corporation will issue bonds for 3.5 billion Pesos (760 million dollars) as part of its push to reduce fuel imports by investing in domestic output, the energy company said in a letter to regulators on Monday.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 07:54 UTC

  Falklands included in Argentina’s UN continental shelf committee presentation

  

  Argentina made a technical presentation last week before the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, CLCS, on the exterior limits of the Argentine shelf in which the claimed territories of the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and ‘Argentine Antarctica’ were included.

• Monday, August 13th 2012 - 22:21 UTC

  Limited effect for the Falklands of Argentina’s latest ban on Red Ensign vessels

  

  The Buenos Aires Province Senate on 2 August passed a law last week banning British flagged vessels associated with activities in Falkland Islands waters from calling at Argentina’s largest ports.

• Monday, August 13th 2012 - 05:58 UTC

  Argentina again conditions contract to deep-dredge River Plate access canal

  

  Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said that Argentina “is ready to sign” the deep dredging of the River Plane access canal Martin Garcia but warned that before doubts generated by Uruguay’s National Auditing Office regarding the performance of dredgers’ Riovía during the tender process, must be resolved.

• Monday, August 13th 2012 - 05:49 UTC

  Workers confirm tenth day running of subway strike in Buenos Aires

  

  Buenos Aires City one million commuters will be punished with yet another day, ten running, without subways as no agreement was reached between the striking workers with the Metrovias company.

• Monday, August 13th 2012 - 05:35 UTC

  Argentina shows off jet model and calls on UK to dialogue on Falklands’ sovereignty

  

  Argentina’s minister of Defence called on the UK “to sit and dialogue” over the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty and warned that the British military presence in the South Atlantic “is the only element that upholds the usurpation of that part of our national territory”.