Argentina

• Tuesday, March 1st 2011 - 00:17 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez re-election bid in “inevitable” says cabinet chief

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner re-election bid is “inevitable” said cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez who nevertheless pointed out it was “premature” to talk about candidates for next October’s presidential election.

• Monday, February 28th 2011 - 06:36 UTC

  Argentina/Uruguay launch campaign to jointly organize 2030 World Cup

  

  Uruguay and Argentina will take advantage of the coming 2011 America Cup (Copa América) to promote their joint candidacy to organize soccer’s major event: the 2030 World Cup on occasion of the centenary of the first time the tournament was played.

• Monday, February 28th 2011 - 01:21 UTC

  Paraguay exported more beef than Argentina in 2010

  

  Paraguay overtook Argentina as beef exporter in 2010 confirming the country’s loss of leadership in the world’s meat markets, according to reports in the Argentine and Paraguayan media.

• Saturday, February 26th 2011 - 10:37 UTC

  Falklands Facts

  

  In his reply of 19 February to my letter of the 12th, Mr. Cisneros says “the worst thing we can do is quibble and distract ourselves from the main problem”. But it is not a “quibble” to state simple facts, as I did in my letter. So I suggest we get a few facts straight – not unilateral facts, but straightforward historical facts.

• Saturday, February 26th 2011 - 03:12 UTC

  U.S. reacts ironically to Timmerman’s advise on contacts with the Argentine press

  

  Unite States officials said they would continue to claim the US Air Force aircraft cargo seized in Argentina and rejected point blank pressures on embassy officials from Argentina’s Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman to abstain from comments on the issue with the Argentine press.

• Saturday, February 26th 2011 - 02:54 UTC

  Uruguay and Argentina agree to build floating re-gasification plant

  

  Uruguay and Argentina signed on Friday an agreement to build a re-gasification plant for liquid natural gas to help meet their energy needs. The floating re-gasification plant will supply the two nations with 10 million cubic meters a day of natural gas, scalable to 15 million, starting in 2013 according to an official statement.

• Friday, February 25th 2011 - 21:53 UTC

  Argentine government makes a small gesture towards farmers’ groups

  

  Argentina decreed the dissolution of the controversial ONCCA, (Office for the commercial control of agriculture produce) which was directly involved in market regulation and distribution of subsidies and as such caused much irritation and criticism particularly from farmers’ organizations.

• Friday, February 25th 2011 - 21:29 UTC

  China Sinopec completes take over of US Occidental Petroleum assets in Argentina

  

  China Petrochemical Group (Sinopec), China's largest oil refiner announced this week that U.S. Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:OXY) had completed handing over its Argentinean assets to it.

• Friday, February 25th 2011 - 21:13 UTC

  Argentina names globalization-critic economist as ambassador in France

  

  Argentina has appointed economist Aldo Ferrer (84) ambassador to France. The decision was confirmed by the decree 180/2011 which was signed by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, on February 22.

• Friday, February 25th 2011 - 00:57 UTC

  Argentine industry satisfied with first landings from the Illex squid season

  

  The first Argentine jiggers returning to the port of Mar del Plata to land their catches are reporting good volumes of Illex Argentinus and are eager to return to sea, according to the Argentine fisheries news magazine Pescare.