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Montevideo, April 23rd 2024 - 09:12 UTC

Argentina

  • Monday, July 20th 2009 - 12:56 UTC

    Argentine dairy farm 50 years in the business forced to close

    The Magnasco family milk 1.000 cows and produce 22.000 litres daily.

    Magnasco, one of the oldest dairy farms in Argentina with a history of more than 50 years has ceased activities and will dedicate its farmland to potatoes. The family business which owns four dairy farms and rents another five took the drastic action because “there’s no way of making of profit” with the erred agriculture policies from the administration of the Kirchner couple.

  • Monday, July 20th 2009 - 12:51 UTC

    Argentina planning to remove bonds adjusted to inflation

    An estimated 56 billion USD in bonds are adjusted to inflation

    Argentina will seek to remove from the bonds market nearly 40% of its sovereign debt and meet all its financial obligations, Economy Minister Amado Boudou was quoted by a Buenos Aires daily on Sunday.

  • Saturday, July 18th 2009 - 15:40 UTC

    Pigs contract A/H1N1 virus flu and Argentina issues national alert

    This is the second time the disease had been found in pigs in the Buenos Aires province.

    Argentina declared a nationwide alert on Friday after pigs in the province of Buenos Aires were confirmed to have the A/H1N1 flu virus, health authorities said. Thousands of people have contracted the virus in Argentina and 137 people in the country have died.

  • Saturday, July 18th 2009 - 15:25 UTC

    YPF begins next South Atlantic drilling round in Malvinas basin

    Apparently no oil in commercial volumes was found in the first wells drilled off Comodoro Rivadavia.

    In the coming two weeks the Spanish-Argentine YPF energy corporation should have concluded its first round of seven exploratory wells in the South Atlantic, and towards the end of the year, or beginning of 2010, will start drilling in deeper waters in the Malvinas basin, according to company sources.

  • Saturday, July 18th 2009 - 15:11 UTC

    Argentina’s economy worst monthly performance in seven years

    Slumping industrial production and construction are threatening Latinamerica’s third largest economy

    Argentina’s economy had its worth monthly performance in almost seven years in May amid slumping industrial production and construction. Economic activity was unchanged in May from a year earlier, the first time the government hasn’t recorded growth since November 2002. The economy rose 0.1% in May from April, according to the national statistics agency, Indec.

  • Friday, July 17th 2009 - 05:33 UTC

    Argentina obtains Non-Aligned Movement observer status

    The decision was approved at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit.

    The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) leaders approved this week the admission of Argentina and the World Peace Council (WPC) as observers at the its 15th summit currently held in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

  • Thursday, July 16th 2009 - 15:36 UTC

    US travel alert to Argentina because of the H1N1 virus

    Travel plans should be discussed with doctor, recommends State Department

    The United States Department of State has sent out a travel alert to US citizens travelling to or residing in Argentina on the health risks associated with the World Health Organization (WHO)-declared 2009-H1N1 influenza pandemic, which has resulted in illness in numerous countries. The current outbreak in Argentina has caused federal, provincial, and municipal authorities to announce several measures to prevent the illness from spreading.

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2009 - 23:50 UTC

    Ten years on - still disagreement on Falklands’ agreement

    The 1999 agreement reinstated Lan Chile flights to the Falklands from Punta Arenas and allowed holders of Argentine passports to visit the Islands.

    On the tenth anniversary of the agreement July 14th 1999 between Britain and Argentina on the Falklands, an elected representative of the time still maintains she was right to disagree with the decision that allowed Argentine passport holders the right of access to the Islands.

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2009 - 11:51 UTC

    The Kirchner couple fortune soared 158% last year: totals 12.1 million US dollars

    The ruling couple have proved to be excellent investors in Patagonia real estate

    The fortune of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her husband and former president Nestor Kirchner soared 158% in 2008 having reached the equivalent of 12.1 million US dollars according to sworn statements from the couple published Tuesday in the Buenos Aires press.

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2009 - 11:39 UTC

    Divers have recovered part of the gold lost in the South Atlantic

    In another three weeks the whole cargo of 9.6 tons of gold and silver form the sunken “Polar Mist” should be recovered by “C-Sailor”

    Part of the gold and silver which went down in the South Atlantic, off Patagonia, with the Chilean flagged trawler converted into a transport vessel “Polar Mist”, has been winched aboard the rescuers’ tug contracted to recover the precious cargo.