Argentina

• 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.

• Friday, May 22nd 2009 - 12:21 UTC

  Argentine economy expanded 2.7% in March, says government

  

  Argentina's government said on Thursday the economy grew a better-than-expected 2.7% in March compared with the same month last year and closing the first quarter with a surprising 2.3%. But many analysts say the slowdown is far sharper.

• Friday, May 22nd 2009 - 12:07 UTC

  Obama sends a letter to Cristina for the May 25th celebration

  

  United States president Barack Obama has sent a letter to President Cristina Fernandez praising Argentina’s efforts “to work as a constructive and stabilizing force in the region and beyond”.

• Friday, May 22nd 2009 - 01:33 UTC

  The Kirchners under increased international isolation

  

  Argentina’s ruling couple, the Kirchners growing international isolation has been highlighted by Buenos Aires political analysts. The only leader who seems to visit Buenos Aires quite often is Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, while differences accumulate with neighbouring Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, with the more distant Mexico and Israel and there seems to be a growing distancing from the Obama administration.

• Thursday, May 21st 2009 - 11:12 UTC

  US Congress strong message to Argentina on defaulted obligations

  

  American Task Force Argentina (ATFA), a coalition of more than 40 taxpayer, investor, educator, Latino and agriculture organizations, commended members of the United States House of Representatives for introducing legislation imposing stiff penalties on wealthy and middle-income nations that, like Argentina, refuse to honour obligations to US creditors.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2009 - 14:21 UTC

  Hundred of Argentines pay tribute to an honest taxi driver

  

  Hundreds of Argentines have donated the equivalent of 32.000 US dollar to a taxi driver who found a bag with 32.500 US dollars in cash in his vehicle and returned it to its owners.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2009 - 12:11 UTC

  Argentine farmers look for profitable alternative crops

  

  Argentine farmers are finding other crops which enable them to avoid the hyper sensitive wheat which has been one of the main clash areas with the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Monday, May 18th 2009 - 08:39 UTC

  Sixth death of dengue disease in Argentina

  

  A sixth person has died of the mosquito transmitted dengue disease in Argentina. The Bolivian born victim died in the northern province of Salta of “dengue-shock syndrome”, which is a consequence of the more lethal form of the disease haemorrhagic dengue, reported the local daily “El Tribuno”.