Argentina

• 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.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 23:21 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez advances visit to Chile from September to January 25/26

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández will make an official visit to Santiago to meet with her Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera at the end of January next year, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 16:24 UTC

  Controversial plan to excavate Falklands’ conflict battlefields

  

  A television archaeologist has revealed plans to excavate the battlefields of the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict. The initiative belongs to Glasgow University academic Dr Tony Pollard who is preparing the major project.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 07:09 UTC

  CFK mentioned to Piñera the possibility of cutting the air link MPA-Punta Arenas

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera revealed that his Argentine counterpart Cristina Fernandez, CFK, mentioned the possibility of interrupting regular flights between the Falkland Islands and Chile, but “made no specific demand on the issue”.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 07:05 UTC

  The Commander in Chief of the forces is a woman but where are the female generals?

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández resumed activities on Monday and at the end of the year ceremony at the Military Academy, called for an increase in high-ranking female officials in the armed forces.