Argentina

• Thursday, January 5th 2012 - 05:15 UTC

  Swedish contractor to expand Argentine railroad network to Bahía Blanca

  

  Argentina is expanding its railroad network to cope with increasing demands for its growing export sector plus expectations of a boost in transit trade from landlocked Paraguay and regional commerce.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 23:10 UTC

  Argentine state becomes partner of the country’s 33 air terminals’ concession

  

  The Argentine state has made effective its option to a 15% stake of Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 which has the concession of the country’s 33 main air terminals. The company which has the concession, Corporacion America belongs to Eduardo Eunerkian, the same man who financed the Argentine Memorial cemetery in the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 23:07 UTC

  Boudou ‘symbolic’ president while hard core of ‘Cristinistas’ run Argentina

  

  Acting President Amado Boudou arrived at Government House (Casa Rosada) in Buenos Aires at mid morning Wednesday to begin his duties as replacement of President Cristina Fernández for the next 20 days while she recovers from the thyroid operation.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 22:55 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez undergoes full thyroidectomy with “no complications”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez thyroid cancer surgery was completed with “no inconveniences or complications”, said the official medical release signed by the intervening specialists, adding that a full thyroidectomy was practiced.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 18:21 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez confirms top commanders but purges 36 military brass

  

  Hours before undergoing surgery Argentine President Cristina Fernandez purged 36 members of the military brass in the wake of the recent dismissal of the Navy commander amid a domestic-spying scandal.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 06:26 UTC

  Dry weather, heat and lack of rain threaten Mercosur soybean crop

  

  Mercosur soybean production is expected to fall 2.9% after dry weather and heat damaged crops in Brazil and Paraguay and as conditions deteriorate in Argentina, Hamburg-based industry researcher Oil World said.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 06:18 UTC

  CFK undergoes thyroid surgery; well-wishers camp next to hospital

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez on Tuesday rested at home on the eve of scheduled surgery for thyroid cancer, less than three months after being re-elected in a landslide.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:52 UTC

  GSK Argentina fined for experimenting vaccines in babies from poor families

  

  GlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories company was fined 400.000 Pesos (approx 90.000 dollars) by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky following a report issued by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT) for the killing of 14 babies during illegal lab vaccine trials conducted between 2007 and 2008.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 - 05:04 UTC

  German cruise sails along the Paraná river to the city of Rosario

  

  The German cruise vessel ‘Deutschland’ docked Monday at the port of Rosario on the mighty Paraná River which is also the hub for Argentina’s grains and oilseeds basin.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 - 04:56 UTC

  Argentina recalls 1833 Malvinas ‘dislodgement’ and demands bilateral dialogue

  

  Argentina ratified Tuesday its ‘imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and adjoining maritime spaces and blasted the UK for not abiding by UN resolutions calling for bilateral talks.