Argentina

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 - 10:25 UTC

  Patagonia will have the world’s most important wind power park

  

  Spanish energy company Grupo Guascor will build a 2.4 billion US dollars wind power park in Argentine Patagonia, which could be the largest in the world said on Monday Jose Grajales president of the corporation

• Saturday, May 30th 2009 - 15:56 UTC

  Construction in Argentina falls 3% in April and 2.7% in four months

  

  Construction in Argentina fell 3% in April year-on-year, accumulating a 2.7% decline since the start of the year, the INDEC statistics' bureau reported. Nevertheless, construction activity grew 3.6% from the previous month, according to the agency, which was partly explained by seasonal effects.

• Saturday, May 30th 2009 - 15:43 UTC

  UK reaffirms Falklands’ sovereignty on postage stamps issue

  

  Britain stands by its decision to issue postage stamps from the disputed territories of and around the Falkland Islands, according to a letter to the UN secretary-general made public at the United Nations Headquarters in New York this week.

• Thursday, May 28th 2009 - 12:34 UTC

  Argentina denies any “nationalization wave” after mid term election

  

  Argentina accepted on Wednesday Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez' explanation about his comments on his administration’s nationalization plan that doesn't include Brazil's firms, and in a separate statement denied any “nationalization wave” was planned following June’s mid term election.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 12:09 UTC

  Argentine industries union rejects Venezuela in Mercosur

  

  Argentina’s powerful Industrial Union (UIA) urged Argentina's government to revise the possibility of integrating Venezuela as a member of the Mercosur, “after the reiterating actions which have implied the nationalization of companies in Venezuela”.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 12:05 UTC

  Brazilian companies free of nationalization spree, promises Chavez

  

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez told his Brazilian peer Lula da Silva that Brazilian corporations are safe from the current nationalization process in his oil-rich country. The two presidents met on Tuesday in Bahia to discuss Mercosur, energy, finances and regional integration.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 01:39 UTC

  UK/Argentine agreement on Falklands’ Next of Kin visit

  

  The UK Embassy in Buenos Aires has announced that UK and Argentine Government have decided to facilitate the initiative of the Commission of the Families of the Fallen to inaugurate the Memorial in Darwin Cemetery on the Falklands Islands.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2009 - 12:06 UTC

  Buenos Aires residents’ infatuated cultural self esteem

  

  A majority of Buenos Aires City residents consider themselves more enlightened and educated than the rest of Argentines and of Latinamericans with the movies as their main leisure distraction, according to a public opinion poll published in the Sunday edition of the newspaper Perfil.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2009 - 04:59 UTC

  Malvinas, magic word for Argentine children naming their schools

  

  Malvinas and world famous cardio-surgeon René Favaloro were the most popular names voted by students, teachers and parents for 32 schools from the Province of Buenos Aires. The initiative is part of the coming commemoration of Argentina’s bicentennial on May 25th 2010.

• Friday, May 22nd 2009 - 12:49 UTC

  Brazilian aircrafts for nationalized Aerolineas Argentinas

  

  The Argentine government signed Thursday a contract to purchase twenty mid range aircrafts from Brazilian manufacturer Embraer for recently nationalized flag carrier Aerolineas Argentinas. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said these will be the first new aircrafts for Aerolineas in 16 years.