Argentina

Monday, February 14th 2011 - 03:36 UTC
Argentines accept inflation is in the range of 25%, but divided on the causes

A majority of Argentines, 74%, believes that inflation is harming their finances and a similar percentage, 74%, considers the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is hardly interested in the issue, according to a public opinion poll published Sunday in Buenos Aires La Nacion.
Saturday, February 12th 2011 - 12:44 UTC
Unilateral Fact II

Mr. Andres Cisneros’s reply to the article “Unilateral Facts” by Dr. Graham Pascoe and myself last Sunday in the BA Herald, (Jan 21st and Feb 6th in MP), does not answer our points adequately. Our article was specifically about Argentina’s hypocrisy in using UN Resolution 31/49 to criticise Britain’s acts as “unilateral”. Instead he launches a general anti-British diatribe, and makes a number of errors. The worst are as follows.
Saturday, February 12th 2011 - 05:31 UTC
Brazil and Argentina will reject ‘commodity prices regulation’ at G20

Brazil and Argentina came out Friday against a French proposal to be put to the G20 to regulate commodity prices whose recent rises are blamed for a spike in food costs.
Saturday, February 12th 2011 - 05:21 UTC
Who do you believe? CFK’s January 0.7% inflation or private consultants 2%

Argentina’s official and controversial consumer price index in January increased 0.7%, a number disputed by private institutions that argue inflation in the first month of 2011 reached a floor of 2%.
Friday, February 11th 2011 - 06:55 UTC
Corruption controversy: Argentine official calls US diplomats “a joke”

Argentina’s Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández is the latest high-ranking official to address the Wikileaks controversy after Spanish newspaper El País published several cables that denounced various corruption cases within the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration.
Friday, February 11th 2011 - 06:52 UTC
Argentine business leaders urge government to “stop denying inflation”

The head of Argentina’ powerful Business Leaders Association (ADE) urged the government to “stop denying inflation” and rejected the notion that businessmen are responsible for price hikes.
Friday, February 11th 2011 - 06:06 UTC
Two more babies die of malnutrition in north Argentina: seven in 40 days

Another two babies died of malnutrition in the Argentine northern province of Salta, totalling seven so far this year. They all belong to indigenous colonies in this case from the Wichi community living under subsistence conditions in non fertile areas of the province.
Thursday, February 10th 2011 - 06:26 UTC
Argentine minister recommends US diplomacy “to hire more competent employees”

Argentina’s Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido referred to the recently published Wikileaks documents by Spanish newspaper El Pais, and advised the US embassy in Buenos Aires “to hire more competent employees” since performing a “cut-and-paste task from the yellow press is something any idiot can do.”
Wednesday, February 9th 2011 - 20:13 UTC
A former secretary of Nestor Kirchner claims she was his mistress

A former secretary of Nestor Kirchner, the late ex-president of Argentina, has claimed she was his long-term mistress weeks after being sacked by his widow and successor, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Wednesday, February 9th 2011 - 06:33 UTC
Kirchner administrations lack “true political will” to eradicate corruption

More than a hundred cables from the US embassy in Buenos Aires warned about the fragility of the judicial system and the impunity of criminals, according to an article recently published by Spanish newspaper El País. The leaked documents also spoke of the lack of a “true political will” to eradicate corruption.