Argentina

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 07:32 UTC

  Argentine provincial elections confirm support for President Cristina Fernandez

  

  “This victory belongs to the President (Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner)” said governor elect of the Argentine province of La Rioja, Luis Beder Herrera after he swept with 67% of ballots in Sunday’s election.

• Monday, May 30th 2011 - 06:20 UTC

  “The best thing for Argentina is for Cristina to become president again”

  

  “The best thing that could happen to Argentina is for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner “to become President again” said Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo at the close of the national congress of the ruling Justicialista Party who nevertheless suggested has yet to decide when to register.

• Monday, May 30th 2011 - 06:05 UTC

  Ex Brazilian minister calls for treating Argentina gently, “not with a cannon ball”

  

  Former Brazilian Industry and Foreign Trade Minister Miguel Jorge decided to weight in on the bilateral trade conflict currently affecting Brazil and Argentina, and surprisingly came out in defence of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration, comparing President Rousseff’s move to impose non-automatic licenses on car and auto-parts imports as “firing a cannon ball.”

• Monday, May 30th 2011 - 05:51 UTC

  CFK ratified her administration’s economic policies before Mexican business elite

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner ratified before Mexican businessmen that her government will continue to advance the current ‘development inclusion model’ with strong policies in support of the domestic market and exports with added value.

• Sunday, May 29th 2011 - 20:05 UTC

  Argentine refurbished ice-breaker should be ready for 2012/13 Antarctic season

  

  The Argentine navy icebreaker “Almirante Irizar” which became an almost total loss in 2007 should be back fully refurbished and operational for the 2012/2013 Antarctic season following an investment of over 100 million US dollars reveals the Buenos Aires press.

• Saturday, May 28th 2011 - 08:12 UTC

  IADB credits to Argentina this year will total 1.3 billion USD

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank, IADB, will lend Argentina 1.3 billion US dollars this year, the bulk of which will be used for infrastructure projects, such as expanded roadways and sewage systems as well as a plan to improve neighbourhood conditions, announced president Luis Alberto Moreno.

• Saturday, May 28th 2011 - 07:45 UTC

  Moyano cools down, says publicly he’s “tamer than Lassie on a leash”

  

  Argentina’s organized labour leader Hugo Moyano described his relation with the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as “excellent” and blamed the press for all the stories of alleged clashes over political differences with the government.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 22:42 UTC

  Brazil/Argentina relations not contaminated by trade spat, in spite of industry worries

  

  Robert da Fonseca, director of the Sao Paolo Industry Federation, FIESP admitted on Friday that Brazilian businessmen are “worried” with the commercial conflict that Argentina and Brazil face.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 09:26 UTC

  Defence minister denies Argentina is “obstructing” the Falklands economy

  

  Defence minister Arturo Puricelli denied Thursday that Argentina was obstructing the economy of the Malvinas Islands as claimed by Falklands’ governor Nigel Haywood in his state of the nation speech to the elected Legislative Assembly of the Islands.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 08:32 UTC

  Unasur ‘won’t collapse’ as happened with TIAR during the Malvinas war

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner praised the success of Unasur and forecasted that the South America Defence Council will be far more effective and robust than the previous experience with the TIAR, which “collapsed in 1982 during the Malvinas war”.