Argentina

• Wednesday, November 10th 2010 - 04:30 UTC

  Argentine gay community campaigning for a “gender identity” law

  

  Under the motto “let’s go for more” Argentina’s gay and lesbian community is campaigning for a “gender identity” law to enable individuals to change their gender on birth certificates and identity cards.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2010 - 01:53 UTC

  World area under vines and wine production down expect for Argentina

  

  The world area under vines and vitivinicultural production continued in 2010 its downward trend with the exception of Argentina and Chile according to the International Organization of Wine and Vine, OIV

• Tuesday, November 9th 2010 - 17:21 UTC

  Argentine military Junta leader and “dirty war” brains dies in hospital

  

  Argentine coup leader Emilio Eduardo Massera, 85, died Monday after suffering for years from a heart condition and dementia that left him too ill to be tried for crimes against humanity.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2010 - 04:10 UTC

  Getting around sovereignty

  

  By Roberto Cox (*) - Few people in Argentina, or Britain for that matter, are aware that in the years leading up to the war that was fought over the possession of the Islands that Argentina calls the Malvinas and Britain the Falklands, the British government was trying to integrate them with the mainland. Out of deference to the islanders — the Kelpers as they are called — I will not be so bold as to write that Britain was intent on giving the islands and their inhabitants to Argentina, but that was the general idea.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2010 - 04:00 UTC

  Paul McCartney in Buenos Aires ready for the first show on Wednesday

  

  Former Beatle Paul McCartney is resting in a farm in the outskirts of Buenos Aires preparing for the scheduled shows of Wednesday and Thursday at the River Plate stadium.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2010 - 00:55 UTC

  Population of Buenos Aires province: 15.2 million according to preliminary census

  

  The province of Buenos Aires has the largest population of Argentina having increased 9.9% in the last nine years and reaching 15.2 million according to the preliminary results form the country’s national census.

• Monday, November 8th 2010 - 17:37 UTC

  30 years on Argentine wool man returns to Falklands

  

  VETERAN Argentine wool-man Joaquin (Jack) B Allolio (71) whose Falklands/Argentine agricultural trade ambitions were interrupted by a war, is to achieve his dream of returning to the Falkland Islands after thirty years.

• Monday, November 8th 2010 - 15:15 UTC

  Argentina anticipates record crop and export surpluses of wheat and corn

  

  Argentina’s Agriculture and Livestock minister Julian Domínguez and representatives from the cereals and oilseed markets coincided that Argentina will have a record crop this 2010/11 season and considerable export surplus of wheat and corn: 5.5 million and 18.5 million tons respectively.

• Monday, November 8th 2010 - 04:17 UTC

  Argentine president leaves for Korea to address investors and G-20 summit

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner travels Monday to South Korea in order to take part in the Heads of State Group of Twenty (G-20) Summit that will be held Thursday and Friday in Seoul.

• Saturday, November 6th 2010 - 07:38 UTC

  Risk agencies caution about economic policy changes expectations in Argentina

  

  Concern that Argentina’s government is reporting unreliable economic data is keeping Moody’s Investors Service from boosting the nation’s credit rating, said Patrick Esteruelas, an analyst with the company.