Argentine writer and human rights militant Ernesto Sabato died at his home on Saturday morning at the age of 99. He has been suffering from bronchitis. A physicist by training he became famous because of his writing; however he had not produced any works for quite some time.
Argentina's powerful organized labour leader Hugo Moyano called for President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, to run for re-election but also asked for greater labour participation in the ballot lists, sharing companies’ profits and seats in the boards of the main corporations.
Argentina’ Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman and his Chilean peer Alfredo Moreno will lead next Monday in the Vatican homage to John Paul II for his 1978 successful mediation in preventing a full fledged armed conflict between the two neighbouring countries.
Argentina's construction activity was up 4% in March from the same month a year ago, the smallest increase in at least 15 months. In comparison, construction activity in March 2010 was up 12.8% on the year.
Argentina will press ahead with plans to develop a small-scale nuclear reactor over the next three years, even when last month‘s disaster in Japan prompted countries such as Germany and Brazil to reconsider projects.
“IN the face of bombast you can show reason and humanity” was the message a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official carried to the Falklands this week.
Former Argentine president Carlos Menem (1989/1999) forecasted ‘a hands-down’ victory for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner next October, although he also forecasted that when her four years are up “it will be the end of Kirchnerism”.
Authorities in Argentina say they have detained a Colombian man they accuse of being the brains behind the submarines used to smuggle drugs to the United States.
A week before the next round of negotiations for an ambitious association and trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, a paper from the EU Joint Research Study centre, JRS, quantifies the alleged losses of such a deal for European farmers.
Former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher has paid tribute to one of the Royal Navy's most senior commanders during the 1982 Falklands conflict following his death. Former Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Henry Leach, died on Tuesday aged 87.