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Argentina

  • Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 - 12:02 UTC

    Protectionism debate heats up among Argentine manufacturers

    Argentine manufacturers are openly divided over “protectionist practices” to face the current global slowdown. While a member of the board of the powerful Argentine Industrial Union, UIA argued that Argentina is ignoring the lessons of the 1929 crisis, other organizations claim ensuring domestic industry and employment must be priorities.

  • Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 - 03:14 UTC

    Argentina continental shelf presentation includes Falklands

    Map shows Argentina's continental shelf claim

    Argentina officially presented this week before United Nations its continental shelf claims which if approved will extend the country’s sovereign limit on the sea bed from 200 to 350 miles. The request includes all those areas claimed by Argentina: Falklands/Malvinas, South Atlantic islands and the so called Argentine Antarctic Territory.

  • Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 - 02:10 UTC

    Argentine fish and shellfish exports pick up in first quarter

    Frozen pink shrimp for export. Shrimp was Argentina's second most important export in the year through March.

    Argentina exported 88.987 tons of fish and shellfish valued at 209.3 million US dollars in the first three months of 2009, according to the latest statistics from the National Food Safety and Quality Service (SENASA).

  • Saturday, April 18th 2009 - 09:39 UTC

    Summit “first step for a new regional order” says Cristina

    Cristina: Obama is evidence of the dramatic changes in the last 4 years

    Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said Friday that the Trinidad and Tobago summit “should be the first step for a new regional order” and recalled the previous summit in Argentina had signalled “an inflection point for the continent”.

  • Thursday, April 16th 2009 - 09:53 UTC

    Lula da Silva has the highest approval rating; Cristina K the lowest

    Pte. Lula and his counterpart CFK: The odd couple, thumbs up, thumbs down

    Brazil’s President Lula da Silva and Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe with over 70% approval have the best leaders’ performances in Latinamerica while in the other extreme figure Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner and Honduras Manuel Zelaya, below 30%, according to the prestigious Mexican pollster Consulta Mitofsky.

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2009 - 10:43 UTC

    Kirchner denies recession and insists Argentina continues to expand

    Kirchner promised economy will keep growing

    Two reliable private consultants and advisors confirmed that the Argentine economy has gone through two consecutive negative quarters, thus in recession. However former president Nestor Kirchner denies any recession and insists that the Argentine economy keeps expanding.

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2009 - 11:51 UTC

    Argentina’s 2008/09 soy bean crop 16% below last year

    The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) downgraded significantly Argentina’s 2008/09 soy bean crop estimates. Only a month ago the volume forecasted was 43 million tons, but the latest was brought down to 39 million tons.

  • Monday, April 13th 2009 - 11:11 UTC

    The success of Brazilian farming and Argentina’s disarray

    Brazil is targeting 300 million tons in ten years time

    If forecasts are confirmed the 70 million tons of the 2008/09 Argentine harvest would represent 2.9% of the world’s grain production when in previous crops it had reached 4.2%. Brazil in the meantime will have reached 5.5% of world production. Only a few years ago the difference was minimal with Brazil almost 4% and Argentina above 3%.

  • Monday, April 13th 2009 - 08:36 UTC

    Argentine industry calls for “non tariff barriers” against world crisis

    Mendez anticipates more difficulties for Mercosur partners

    Argentina should appeal to “non tariff barriers” to protect itself from the global crisis said Hector Mendez, who this week takes over as head of the country’s largest federation of industries, Industrial Union of Argentina, after having elected to the post.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2009 - 12:56 UTC

    Argentina admits “very serious” dengue epidemics “which has come to stay”

    Health Minister Graciela Ocaña finally admitted the situation is “very serious”

    “Dengue is here to stay” in the Southern Cone and although not controllable it can be prevented , admitted Argentina’s Health Minister Graciela Ocaña as the mosquito transmitted disease reached metropolitan Buenos Aires following thousands of cases in the impoverished north which the government tried to downplay.