Argentina

• Thursday, June 17th 2010 - 03:19 UTC

  Mercosur and EU clash over mining environmental regulations

  

  Mercosur and associate members Chile and Ecuador rejected environmental regulations for the mining sector, under consideration by the European parliament and which could become a barrier for minerals’ exports to the EU.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2010 - 05:31 UTC

  Argentine pickets insist with pollution controls inside Uruguayan pulp mill

  

  Argentine pickets who have been blocking since 2006 a bridge leading to neighbouring Uruguay to protest the construction of a pulp mill on the Uruguayan side said they are open to negotiations.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2010 - 04:52 UTC

  Brazil denies, and will not accept, contacts with Falklands’ oil industry

  

  The Brazilian government denied that the Falkland Islands “have been looking for business options in Brazil” specifically linked to hydrocarbons exploration, according to the head of the South American Desk at the Brazilian Foreign Affairs ministry.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2010 - 04:39 UTC

  Buenos Aires has 15.000 ‘reported’ homeless of which 4.500 children

  

  At least 15.000 people live in the streets of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires where last year 113 died because of the cold or lack of medical assistance, warned a report from a Non Government Organization, Doctors of the World and Project 7.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2010 - 04:28 UTC

  Argentine minister encouraged with Japanese acceptance of bond-swap

  

  A majority of Japanese investors holding defaulted Argentine debt have exchanged it for new bonds and cash as part of an 18.3 billion US dollars swap that expires June 22, Argentina's finance secretary said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, June 15th 2010 - 05:17 UTC

  Argentine pickets notified of charges for blockading bridge leading to Uruguay

  

  The Argentine Gendarmerie following instructions from a federal judge notified Monday an estimated twenty Gualeguaychú picketers that a civil and criminal case was filed against them by the Argentine government for the roadblock of a bridge linking with neighbouring Uruguay.

• Monday, June 14th 2010 - 03:58 UTC

  Protestors receive Falklands’ bound Lan Chile flight in Rio Gallegos

  

  As had been anticipated a dissident group of Malvinas veterans protested at the Argentine airport of Rio Gallegos during the Saturday stop over of the weekly Lan Chile flight to the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, June 12th 2010 - 04:54 UTC

  Argentine ministers call on pickets to abandon roadblock leading to Uruguay

  

  Argentine ministers went public again on Friday to insist that there are no excuses left for keeping a roadblock on a bridge leading to neighbouring Uruguay, a long standing protest since 2006 against the construction of the Botnia pulp mill.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 23:20 UTC

  Argentine industrial activity soared 13.1% in May and 11.8% in first four months

  

  According to the Argentine Industrial Union, the manufacturing sector grew 13.1% in April in comparison with the same month of 2009, with the automotive and the iron and steel industries as key pillars.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 23:10 UTC

  Spanish group Viajes Marsans (former owners of Aerolineas Argentinas) sold

  

  Spanish travel company Viajes Marsans S.A., the parent company of bankrupt airline Air Comet, has been sold to Posibilitum Business for 600 million euros (720 million USD), the parties to the deal said this week.