Argentina

• 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.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 - 02:56 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez returns to Buenos Aires ahead of Wednesday’s surgery

  

  After spending New Year’s Eve with her family, Argentine President Cristina Fernández returned to Buenos Aires Monday midday from El Calafate, Santa Cruz province, less than 48 hours before she undergoes surgery for a thyroid gland carcinoma.

• Monday, January 2nd 2012 - 20:51 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez confirms full support for new governor of Rio Negro

  

  A senior lawmaker from the ruling coalition of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner said that the Peronist party in the province of Rio Negro “would stand by” Vice-Governor Alberto Weretilneck, scheduled to take office as provincial governor on Tuesday due to the death of former governor Carlos Soria.

• Monday, January 2nd 2012 - 06:21 UTC

  Saudi dairy farm buys 30.000 acres of prime land in Argentina

  

  Saudi Arabia's largest dairy company announced it was buying Argentine farm operator Fondomonte for 83 million dollars to secure access to a supply of animal feed. The acquisition will give Riyadh-based Almarai Co. control of roughly 30,000 acres of farmland just ahead of tough new limits to be imposed by Argentina's government on foreign ownership of productive land.