Argentina

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 05:36 UTC

  Re-elected Bs. As. City mayor to meet all presidential candidates, even CFK

  

  Re-elected Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri gave his victory speech after defeating Kirchnerite Daniel Filmus on Sunday, and said his party (PRO) would begin the process of deciding which of the presidential candidates to support in Argentina’s general elections of next October.

• Saturday, July 30th 2011 - 22:33 UTC

  Cristina and Dilma reaffirm ‘strategic alliance and commitment to Mercosur

  

  Argentina and Brazil reaffirmed on Friday their strategic alliance and commitment to Mercosur and regional integration during a summit in Brasilia, where President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner together with her Brazilian peer Dilma Rousseff inaugurated the new Argentine Embassy in the Brazilian capital.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 07:25 UTC

  One officer and 3 civilians killed during eviction of a landsite in north Argentina

  

  A shootout between police and civilians in Argentina’s northern province of Jujuy left one officer and four protesters dead plus more than 30 injured, after clashes occurred during the eviction of more than four hundred families from a land site.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 07:17 UTC

  Bank of Nova Scotia drops legal actions against Argentina for 600m dollars

  

  Argentina’s central bank said the Bank of Nova Scotia dropped legal actions against the country under which it sought 600 million dollars.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 07:08 UTC

  Repsol-YPF earnings hit by civil war in Libya and labour strikes in Argentina

  

  Repsol-YPF, Spain’s largest oil company, said second-quarter earnings fell 7.3% after refining margins narrowed and output declined because of the civil war in Libya and strikes in Argentina.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 06:22 UTC

  President Cristina Fernandez “disregards and looks down on the rural sector”

  

  A respected reference in Argentine politics, Senator Carlos Reutemann came out strongly this week in support of farmers saying that the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, (CFK), “disregards and looks down on the rural sector”.

• Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 11:34 UTC

  Volcanic ash cloud dissipates and Buenos Aires airports return to normal activity

  

  Activity in Buenos Aires Metropolitan airport slowly resumed its normal pace on Wednesday as Aerolíneas Argentinas, Austral and Lan airlines announced they resumed their operations, after cancelling them due to volcanic ash cloud.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 04:54 UTC

  Argentina confident negotiations on Malvinas question ‘will take place’

  

  Britain can’t go on shielding behind its membership of the UN Security Council to avoid dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas question, but Argentina is confident “negotiations will take place” said Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman in Paris following a meeting with his French peer Alain Juppé.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 03:48 UTC

  Argentine farmers furious with government’s wheat export policy

  

  Argentina liberated 450.000 tons of wheat for export, a decision which is believed to be closely linked to Sunday’s election in the farming province of Santa Fe where the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner suffered a major defeat.

• Monday, July 25th 2011 - 20:48 UTC

  Santa Fe voters cast “a punishing vote” on those who seek to impose an only way of thinking

  

  “We received a vote of confidence from the Santa Fe people”, said early Monday the Argentine province next governor Socilaist Antonio Bonfatti, following his tight Sunday victory which also “cast a punishing vote” for the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, ahead of next October election.