Argentina

Friday, May 13th 2011 - 14:03 UTC
Brazil tightens requirements for car imports: Argentina and Asia targeted

Brazil is tightening requirements for imports of cars in a move that sparked complaints from Argentina, its biggest supplier of the product. Imports to Brazil will need a special license that can take as long as 60 days to be approved, the Trade Ministry said in an e-mailed statement.
Friday, May 13th 2011 - 05:27 UTC
CFK warns Moyano on “blackmailing” and attacking the economic model

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner insisted on Thursday that she “is not dying to be president again” but also sent a scathing message targeting organized labour rejecting ‘blackmailing’ and any attempts to bring down the (economic) model.
Friday, May 13th 2011 - 04:49 UTC
Brazil warns Argentina about restrictions to bilateral trade

Brazil’s Commerce and Industry minister Fernando Pimentel called on the Argentine government to de-activate restrictions on Brazilian exports and revealed he had addressed a letter to his Argentine peer Debora Giorgi exposing restrictions on bilateral trade and demanding a reply this coming week end.
Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 06:46 UTC
Pilots linked to Argentina’s “death flights” and killing of French nuns arrested

Three former Argentine Coast Guard officers, a former sailor and a solicitor were arrested this week on charges of involvement in the so called ‘death flights’ and the killing of a French-born nun and four other women during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, according to a federal court report.
Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 01:05 UTC
Argentine organized labour ignores CFK, blames corporate world for ‘conflicts’

Argentine organized labour blamed “businessmen in the corporate world” for the level of labour conflict in the country and demanded “more responsibility”. The statement follows on President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Tuesday’s suggestion that the umbrella union organization, CGT, should lower their levels of confrontation.
Wednesday, May 11th 2011 - 07:46 UTC
Brazil’s oil giant Petrobras the most valuable brand in Latin America

Brazil’s oil and gas corporation Petrobras was ranked first in a new listing of the most valuable brands in Latin America, with an estimated brand value of 13.4 billion US dollars.
Wednesday, May 11th 2011 - 03:27 UTC
Instead of pressing for re-election why don’t you press to solve conflicts peacefully?

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said on Tuesday that “instead of so many people supporting me for re-election” she prefers cooperation so conflicts and disputes can be solved without applying the sort of pressure that only makes matters worse.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 22:45 UTC
Good soybean crop prospects in Brazil and Argentina, could total 123 million tons

Soybean crop prospects in Brazil and Argentina, the second- and third-biggest exporters of the oilseed behind the U.S., have improved, researcher Oil World said in a report Tuesday. Growers in Brazil will produce 73 million metric tons of soybeans, up from a record 68.7 million tons a year ago, and farmers in Argentina will harvest 49.5 million tons, up 1% from a prior estimate.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 22:38 UTC
YPF makes large shale oil discovery, equivalent to 6% of Argentina’s reserves

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced on Tuesday that YPF energy company had made a large shale oil discovery in Neuquén province, a find that she considered to be of extreme importance, since “it will allow for us to maintain and further promote development” throughout the country.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 13:10 UTC
Falklands/Argentina argument “begins and ends with self determination”

The basic argument between the Falkland Islands and Argentina “begins and ends with self determination”, underlined Martin Longden Deputy Director of Overseas Territories in an interview with Tony Curran published in the Falklands’ weekly Penguin News.