Argentina

• Saturday, December 17th 2011 - 04:51 UTC

  Powerful leader of organized labour breaks away from Cristina Fernandez

  

  In a high voltage exchange with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, the head of the powerful organized labour unions CGT, Hugo Moyano said he was stepping down from all his posts in the ruling Peronist movement since it had become “an empty shell void of Peronism” but would continue fighting for the workers movement which is the essence of Peronism.

• Saturday, December 17th 2011 - 03:24 UTC

  Argentine ‘official’ November inflation reached 0.6% and 8.6% in eleven months

  

  The consumer price index in Argentina during the month of November increased 0.6% according to the official stats office Indec, which is less than half the percentage released by private estimates through the so called Congress inflation index.

• Friday, December 16th 2011 - 19:04 UTC

  UK discussing with Uruguay officials docking ban for Falklands flagged vessels

  

  The British Embassy in Montevideo is discussing with Uruguayan authorities the implications of President Jose Mujica public statement that Falklands/Malvinas flagged vessels “are banned from docking in the port of Montevideo”.

• Friday, December 16th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  Mujica denies Argentine pressure, but confirms Falklands flagged vessels are banned

  

  Uruguayan President José ‘Pepe’ Mujica denied on Thursday afternoon suffering pressure from the Argentine government to restrict British ships from docking at Montevideo’s ports.

• Friday, December 16th 2011 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentine economy roaring at 9.3% in third quarter, announced CFK

  

  Argentina’s economy expanded in the third quarter at the fastest pace since 2003, said President Cristina Fernandez on Thursday during a visit to a Toyota Motor Corp. plant in the province of Buenos Aires

• Thursday, December 15th 2011 - 19:53 UTC

  Argentina bullying Uruguay on canal dredging and Falkland Islands flagged vessels

  

  Uruguay has banned the docking of Falklands/Malvinas flagged vessel in the port of Montevideo, following on complaints from Argentina that several fishing vessels with that flag, in recent months had been operating from Montevideo.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 04:11 UTC

  Argentine organized labour leader challenges CFK with massive political rally

  

  A few hours before Truckers’ Day to be celebrated at a soccer stadium and in the midst of the dispute with the Argentine government, the leader of organized labour CGT, Hugo Moyano again challenged President Cristina Fernandez saying that inflation to discuss wages is that of the supermarkets.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 03:56 UTC

  Argentine November inflation 1.44% and 22.63% in eleven months, say lawmakers

  

  Argentine Lower House opposition lawmakers announced on Tuesday that inflation in November had reached 1.44%, accumulating so far this year, 22.63%. The so called ‘Congressional index’ is an average of the estimates from private consultants who face heavy fines if they make public their numbers.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 03:52 UTC

  Sony to manufacture notebooks in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Argentina’s Ministry of Industry announced Tuesday an investment of 30 million dollars for the manufacturing of mini-components, notebooks and LCD television sets in the province of Tierra del Fuego, extreme south of the country.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 23:39 UTC

  US prosecutors charge former Siemens executives for paying bribes in Argentina

  

  United States prosecutors charged eight former Siemens AG executives with paying 100 million dollars in bribes for more than a decade to Argentina officials to help win a one billion dollars contract to produce national identity cards.