Argentina

• Saturday, December 3rd 2011 - 08:53 UTC

  Argentine government announces end of most subsidies for Buenos Aires City

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Amado Boudou and Planning Minister Julio De Vido announced on Friday further subsidy eliminations for utility services particularly in the City of Buenos Aires, which follows on previous subsidy cuts to several sectors implemented last month by the government of Cristina Fernandez.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 20:36 UTC

  Washington approves Jorge Argüello as Argentina’s next ambassador

  

  The Argentine diplomat Jorge Argüello (grossly misinformed on the Falkland Islands) has received official approval from President Barack Obama’s administration for his bid to become the Argentine Ambassador in Washington DC, the Foreign Ministry announced this week in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 18:58 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay less corrupt in Latam; other Mercosur members not so clean

  

  Chile and Uruguay are the least corrupt countries in Latinamerica, while Paraguay and Venezuela are at the other extreme, according to the latest ‘Corruption Perceptions’ Index’ from Transparency International released this week.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 16:04 UTC

  “Four years more are more than enough”, says Argentine president

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez watered down any hopes of a limitless re-election during her visit to Venezuela stating that “four years more are more than enough”.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 16:00 UTC

  CFK moved to tears on receiving picture of her husband painted by Chavez

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández signed on Thursday nineteen cooperation agreements in different fields with her Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 06:23 UTC

  Third quarter capital flight from Argentina reaches 8.433bn dollars, reports Central bank

  

  Capital flight from Argentina during the third quarter of this year totalled 8.443 billion dollars, almost four times during the same period a year ago, according to the latest report from the country’s central bank.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 00:08 UTC

  IMF denies Argentine court info on how to calculate inflation: “files are inviolable”

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) avoided replying to an inquiry required by Argentine Judge Alejandro Catania, who handles the case of the lawsuit filed by the Domestic Trade Secretariat against private consulting agencies.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 04:26 UTC

  Malvinas war veterans demand DNA tests to identify soldiers buried at Darwin

  

  Malvinas war veterans are demanding DNA tests to identify the unknown soldiers buried at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin as part of the remembrance events of the 30th anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict in 2012.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 04:19 UTC

  Emirates Airlines inaugurates Dubai-Buenos Aires daily flights 3 January

  

  Emirates Airlines will fly on a daily basis between Dubai and Buenos Aires, with a call at Rio do Janeiro, as of next January 3, it was announced in the Argentine capital by Richard Vaughan Senior Vice-president for Commercial Operations.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 06:14 UTC

  CFK off to Venezuela to meet with Chavez and Dilma Rousseff

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández will hold a bilateral meeting next Friday with her Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff in the framework of the first Latin American and Caribbean States Community Summit (CELAC).