Argentina

• Tuesday, December 26th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner with increasing chances for October 2007

  

  Argentine president Nestor Kirchner will leave office next December 2007 to concentrate on building his political force while the First Lady and Senator, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is the leading candidate to succeed her, anticipated this week Congress member Carlos Kunkel from the ruling coalition

• Monday, December 25th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Italy's Gruppo Beltrame mulls steel plant in Argentina

  BUENOS AIRES — Italy's Gruppo Beltrame, Europe's fifth largest steelmaker, is considering plans to build its first plant outside Europe in Argentina at a cost of about 53 million dollars to manufacture plate for the shipbuilding sector, Río Santiago shipyard (ARS) said in a statement.

• Monday, December 25th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina determined to ban double fishing licences

  A reform of an Argentine law that would force many foreign companies to drop the fishing permits granted to them by the British-controlled Falklands/Malvinas Islands will be passed next April, Congressional sources in Buenos Aires told MercoPress.

• Wednesday, December 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina's recovery fuels car sales

  

  Vehicle sales in Argentina rose a healthy 17 percent to 453,000 units in January-November – the higher figure since the 455,000 sold in the entire 1998 — on the back of a steady economic recovery accompanied by a favourable international scenario, the new chairman of the ACARA concessionaires association Dante Alvarez said.

• Wednesday, December 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  The Economist: energy Argentina's “biggest worry”

  

  In five years Argentina's recovery from catastrophe has been “swift”, but the “biggest worry” now is energy and how long growth can continue, writes The Economist in its latest edition.

• Monday, December 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Energy crisis

  

  Argentina is facing a severe energy shortage that many experts blame on the lack of investments since the 2001-2002 economy crisis and despite GDP has grown at about nine percent over the last four years.

• Sunday, December 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina begins 3D exploration in South Atlantic

  

  Argentina began this month ninety days oil and gas 3D seismic surveying of its continental platform in the Colorada Marina basin 200 miles off Mar del Plata.