Argentina

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 06:23 UTC

  Third quarter capital flight from Argentina reaches 8.433bn dollars, reports Central bank

  

  Capital flight from Argentina during the third quarter of this year totalled 8.443 billion dollars, almost four times during the same period a year ago, according to the latest report from the country’s central bank.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 00:08 UTC

  IMF denies Argentine court info on how to calculate inflation: “files are inviolable”

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) avoided replying to an inquiry required by Argentine Judge Alejandro Catania, who handles the case of the lawsuit filed by the Domestic Trade Secretariat against private consulting agencies.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 04:26 UTC

  Malvinas war veterans demand DNA tests to identify soldiers buried at Darwin

  

  Malvinas war veterans are demanding DNA tests to identify the unknown soldiers buried at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin as part of the remembrance events of the 30th anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict in 2012.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 04:19 UTC

  Emirates Airlines inaugurates Dubai-Buenos Aires daily flights 3 January

  

  Emirates Airlines will fly on a daily basis between Dubai and Buenos Aires, with a call at Rio do Janeiro, as of next January 3, it was announced in the Argentine capital by Richard Vaughan Senior Vice-president for Commercial Operations.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 06:14 UTC

  CFK off to Venezuela to meet with Chavez and Dilma Rousseff

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández will hold a bilateral meeting next Friday with her Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff in the framework of the first Latin American and Caribbean States Community Summit (CELAC).

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 02:11 UTC

  Argentina’s Grondona admits having been accused more times than Al Capone

  

  Argentine football strongman Julio Grondona said he is fully recovered for his new mandate as head of AFA (Argentine Football Association) and also admitted “he has been accused more times than Al Capone’.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 21:10 UTC

  Argentina’s Techint moves strongly into Brazil steel business

  

  The Techint Group agreed to pay 5.03 billion Reais (2.7 billion dollars) for a 27.7% voting stake in Brazil’s Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais to boost access to the largest market for steel in Latin America.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 21:04 UTC

  Brazil preparing stimuli plan to boost manufacturing and create jobs

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said that the country’s economy which slowed down in the last quarter will retake growth and generate more jobs based on government plans to expand manufacturing.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 17:32 UTC

  Leisure year for Argentines: one off for every three working days in 2012

  

  This coming year Argentines will be resting more and working less, at an average of one day off for every three worked, according to the 2012 official national, civilian and religious festivities calendar released by the Ministry of Interior.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 17:06 UTC

  Argentina confirms high seas boarding of Spanish fleet fishing in Falklands

  

  The Argentine government has stepped up its official blockade policy against the Falkland Islands warning Spanish fishing vessels are operating ‘illegally’ in the South Atlantic, since they have not requested licences from the Argentine government, and controls over those activities will continue.