Argentina

• Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 18:41 UTC

  Chilean ‘Solidarity with Malvinas” group manifests public support for Argentina

  

  A Chilean ‘Solidarity with Malvinas” group visited this week the Argentine legation in Santiago to meet Ambassador Ginés González Garcia and express their support for Argentina’s claim over the disputed Falklands and other South Atlantic islands.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 20:29 UTC

  Buenos Aires gains increasing popularity as gay destination by the pink press

  

  Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires has gained increasing popularity as a gay destination, largely due to recent liberalization laws which have supported gay and lesbian lifestyles, reports Pink Choice.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 20:07 UTC

  Brazil’s Marfrig deeper in the red but beef division manages turnaround

  

  A slump the Brazilian currency Real landed Marfrig deeper in the red despite an improved operating result, lifted by takeovers and better tailoring its beef operations to a shortage of cattle.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 20:01 UTC

  Argentina has great hopes with the Caribbean back in the Latinamerican fold

  

  Argentina has great expectations about the coming summit for the official creation of the Community of Latinamerican and Caribbean states, Celac, scheduled to take place next December 2 and 3 in Venezuela, said Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 06:27 UTC

  CFK promises pro-growth model, industrial “fine tuning” and dialogue

  

  In a milestone speech on Tuesday anticipating the four years of her next mandate, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez disclosed she would continue with pro-growth policies but also added that a time of ‘fine tuning’ had arrived in which she was willing to address all issues including “investment and inflation” but not through the newspapers.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 04:23 UTC

  “Las Malvinas son argentines” crest for the Argentine Olympic team uniform

  

  A draft bill signed by fourteen Argentine lawmakers from the political spectrum calls for all national teams to include in their uniforms the crest of the Islands and the motto “Las Islas Malvinas son argentinas” (The Malvinas islands are Argentine).The sponsors want the bill approved on time for the inauguration of the Olympic Games next year in London.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 02:56 UTC

  Argentine government promises even closer industry-State articulation

  

  Planning Minister, Julio De Vido said that “Argentina is again aiming at the long term and this is only possible due to the numerous productive projects” in the country and the close articulation between the State and industry.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 02:53 UTC

  Argentine minister tells industry to invest 30bn dollars annual to ensure 7% growth

  

  Argentine Industry Minister, Débora Giorgi, came on stage Tuesday at the Industrial Union’s annual conference to defend the “Kirchnerite economic model”, and warned that in order to keep an average growth of 7% as asked by businessmen, they would have to increase their annual investments to 30 billion dollars.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 23:03 UTC

  Uruguay hopeful it can reach a tax-data exchange agreement with Argentina

  

  “Negotiations are on the right track” and should be concluded in coming months, said Uruguayan sources adding that one of the current difficulties is what will happen with the Argentine negotiating team, following December 10 when re-elected President Cristina Fernandez takes office for her second consecutive four year mandate.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 17:51 UTC

  Oil might lubricate the process to real dialogue in the South Atlantic

  

  The second of a planned series of extended political articles written exclusively for the Penguin News web site by Deputy Editor John Fowler.