Argentina

• Saturday, September 17th 2011 - 02:58 UTC

  Argentina will defend domestic market from flood of “Asian textile imports”

  

  Argentina will reinforce the defence of its domestic market from ‘the danger of an invasion of Asian countries’ imports, as a consequence of the world crisis, promised this week Industry Minister Debora Giorgi.

• Friday, September 16th 2011 - 06:44 UTC

  Second bus-train accident in Buenos Aires leaves 90 people injured

  

  A collision between a bus, cement truck and a pre-metro (lightrail) train injured 90 people on Thursday during morning rush hour traffic in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, according to police.

• Thursday, September 15th 2011 - 17:03 UTC

  Mercosur is not working, good relations between two presidents ‘are not enough’

  

  President Jose Mujica admitted to Uruguayan manufacturers and farmers that with recurrent Argentine and Brazilian obstacles to trade “it’s very hard to make Mercosur function” and good relations between presidents “are not enough”.

• Thursday, September 15th 2011 - 07:21 UTC

  Paraguay accuses Argentina of ‘systematically ignoring” Mercosur

  

  The Paraguayan delegation before Mercosur Parliament, Parlasur, accused Argentina of “systematically and permanently ignoring the Asuncion Treaty” (the founding charter of Mercosur).

• Thursday, September 15th 2011 - 07:02 UTC

  August “official” inflation in Argentina, 0.8%, less than half the Congress index

  

  ‘Official’ inflation in Argentina hit 0.8% in August and accumulated 6.4% in the first eight months of the year and 9.8% in the last twelve months, according to the Indec statistics and census bureau.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 16:52 UTC

  Polls confirm landslide victory for Argentine president re-election next October

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is heading for a landslide victory in the coming October elections according to public opinion polls released this week. CFK would collect 51.9% of the votes, forty percentage points ahead of the runner up, according to Management & Fit.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 15:17 UTC

  CFK/Sarkozy summit in Paris talk trade and the coming G20 meeting

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner held on Wednesday a 45 summit meeting with her counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on the third and last day of her official visit to France.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 06:29 UTC

  Menem acquitted from gun running to Ecuador and Croatia

  

  Former Argentine President Carlos Menem was acquitted in connection with the case of gun running to Ecuador and Croatia between the years 1991 and 1995.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  Bus-trains collision in Buenos Aires leaves 11 dead and hundreds injured

  

  A bus driver gambled and tried to rush across railroad tracks on Tuesday despite a barrier, bells and flashing lights, setting off a chain-reaction collision with two trains that killed 11 people and injured hundreds in Argentina's capital.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2011 - 05:06 UTC

  Mothers of Plaza de Mayo group queried for money laundering and fraud

  

  Over twenty offices and homes were raided by the Argentine police on search warrants as part of the ongoing investigation into alleged money laundering and fraud with government housing funds by the human rights organization Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Foundation.