Argentina

• Saturday, August 7th 2010 - 05:51 UTC

  Kirchner sowing for next year’s presidential election

  

  Argentina's government, unions and industry leaders agreed this week to raise the minimum wage by 23%, more than twice the official annual inflation running at 11%.

• Friday, August 6th 2010 - 06:05 UTC

  Argentine businessmen demand strong institutions and respect for private sector

  

  Argentina’s most powerful business organizations and personalities made a strong presentation in support of the legal system and the private sector as indispensable conditions for a sustained and continued economic development that includes all Argentines.

• Friday, August 6th 2010 - 03:04 UTC

  Gualeguaychú pulp-mill activists to meet again with minister Timerman

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman said he held a “very important meeting” with Gualeguaychú Assembly members after the group of activists requested to be given an explanation of the upcoming joint monitoring of the River Uruguay recently agreed by Argentina and neighbouring Uruguay.

• Thursday, August 5th 2010 - 09:14 UTC

  Beware (River Uruguay) contaminators, warns Argentine top scientist

  

  Contaminators “beware, the time of reckoning is coming” warns Enrique Martinez Argentina’s president of the National Institute of Industrial Technology, INTI who in a brief opinion column praises the recent agreement reached between Uruguay and Argentina to monitor the River Uruguay and ensure the non contamination of the shared water course.

• Thursday, August 5th 2010 - 04:45 UTC

  Argentine economy picks up strongly, forecasted to expand 7% in 2010

  

  Argentina's GDP will reach 7% this year based on a strong domestic demand, Economy Minister Amado Boudou said on Wednesday. The announcement follows earlier in the week reports that the Consumer Confidence index ICC has increased 2.9% in July over a year ago.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 - 00:25 UTC

  India and Argentina sign cooperation agreement in agriculture

  

  India and Argentina signed in New Delhi on Monday a joint agreement for the development of technical and professional cooperation in the agricultural sector and to foster trade of plants and animal products between the two countries.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 - 00:12 UTC

  Argentina puts off plans to float its first international bond since 2001

  

  Argentina is drawing on central bank profits to meet financing needs, putting off plans to sell its first international bond since 2001 as yields tumble. The central bank’s board on July 29 approved a transfer of 3 billion pesos (762 million USD) from the bank’s 23.5 billion pesos in 2009 profits to the government, following a 1.5 billion peso transfer in February, spokesman Fernando Meanos said.

• Monday, August 2nd 2010 - 06:05 UTC

  Argentine farmers and government exchange strong accusations

  

  The head of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA) Hugo Biolcati demanded the government of President Cristina Kirchner “to leave pride aside” and said that they “should open a window of the intolerance wall” because “we are a country thrashed with corruption, exclusion and poverty”.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 05:03 UTC

  The first two male couples marry in Argentina under recently approved law

  

  An actor and his agent sealed Friday in Buenos Aires their 34-year relationship and years of struggle to have their rights acknowledged as they became the first same-sex couple to be married under Argentine law.

• Friday, July 30th 2010 - 03:21 UTC

  The “good chemistry” between Mujica and CFK crucial for the agreement

  

  The Uruguayan government and opposition expressed deep satisfaction with the agreement reached with Argentina for the monitoring of the River Uruguay which did not include ‘detrimental sovereignty issues’ and sealed the end to a long standing conflict.