Argentina

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 04:49 UTC

  First aircraft lands in Bariloche over a month after the Puyehue volcano eruption

  

  Over a month after the eruption of the Caulle-Puyehue volcano in Chile, a first flight landed in the airport of Argentina’s ski resort Bariloche. The chartered flight arrived from Sao Paulo with 120 Brazilian tourists.

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 11:40 UTC

  Lula da Silva accuses the Brazilian elite of defending ‘social inequality’

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva claimed elites defend social inequality and anticipated he would be active again in politics ahead of the 2012 municipal elections.

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 10:28 UTC

  Hydrocarbons-rich province says Argentina has no need to import natural gas

  

  The governor of hydrocarbon-rich Neuquen Province wants to convince Argentina's government it can get all the natural gas it needs from Neuquen and doesn't need to spend billions to import the fuel from Qatar.

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 08:44 UTC

  Iran ready to help investigate 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires of Jewish centre

  

  Argentina on Sunday welcomed an offer from Iran to help investigate the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre that killed 85 people and which local prosecutors blame on Iranian officials.

• Sunday, July 17th 2011 - 01:12 UTC

  Uruguay: “The spoiler beat the favourite”

  

  Uruguay broke Argentina's hearts, beating the hosts 5-4 on penalties to book a Copa America semi-final with Peru after Carlos Tevez missed the crucial spotkick.

• Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 17:19 UTC

  Clarin group heirs DNA-test negative to 1975/76 families, victims of dictatorship

  

  DNA tests on the adopted children of Argentina’s most powerful media family have failed to show any matches in a national gene bank where families of victims of the dictatorship (1976/1983) have donated their DNA.

• Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 17:16 UTC

  World’s oldest and fiercest derby in South American football history

  

  The Argentine province of Santa Fe will be the coliseum for South America’s oldest and fiercest derby when the locals meet Uruguay in the quarter finals of the Americas Cup. Both teams arrive with an unsatisfactory record in the current competition and are expected to make the most to ensure they reach the finals.

• Friday, July 15th 2011 - 06:25 UTC

  Argentina denies restrictions in trade with Brazil; admits ‘logical differences’

  

  Argentina’s trade relation with Brazil does not have restrictions and “it’s understandable that some differences surface” when bilateral trade will be reaching over 40 billion dollars this year, said Argentine Industry Ministry sources in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, July 15th 2011 - 06:21 UTC

  Argentines would like to buy at “official” inflation and be paid in real inflation

  

  According to Argentina’s statistics office Indec consumer inflation was 0.7% pushed mostly by the cost of clothing. However private economic consulting offices estimate the index was double the official announcement.

• Friday, July 15th 2011 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentine central bank purchases 500m dollars to stop appreciation of the Peso

  

  The Argentine Central bank has purchased so far this week 500 million US dollars to ensure that the country’s exporters retain a favourable exchange rate and importers are not that tempted to buy foreign goods.