Argentina

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 07:14 UTC

  Argentine economy growing strong, benefits from imports’ restrictions

  

  Argentina's industrial output rose sharply and the trade surplus beat market expectations during the month of February signalling that the economy is still growing strong.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 06:56 UTC

  Guess what? “in the (Falklands) Malvinas Islands they only speak English”

  

  In the Malvinas Islands, guess what? They speak English according to Juan Antonio Agulles, mayor of the Argentine town of Malargüe, recently back from a trip to the Falkland Islands with a delegation of the so-called Rugby with out Frontiers.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 - 19:47 UTC

  Argentina forecasted to expand 6.8% in electoral year with 25% inflation

  

  Goldman Sachs raised its forecast for Argentina’s economic growth in 2011 after the economy expanded last year at the fastest pace since 2005. Alberto Ramos Goldman Sachs economist raised the GDP expansion estimate to 6.8% from a previous 5.6%, according to an e-mail statement.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 - 19:35 UTC

  Moyano insists organized labor must be present in CFK October ballot ticket

  

  Argentina’s powerful organized labour head, Hugo Moyano kept his pressure on the government saying that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK, will seek re-election on October’s elections.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:19 UTC

  Argentina’s 2010/11 harvest estimated at over 100 million tons

  

  Argentina’s 2010/2011 grains and oilseeds harvest is estimated to have reached 100.46 million tons, which is above last year’s according to the latest technical report from the Ministry of Agriculture released this week.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:10 UTC

  In twelve Argentine provinces inflation is two times and a half the official index

  

  Several Argentine provinces mistrustful of government statistics, particularly inflation have mounted their own offices which show that consumer prices in the last twelve months have soared on average 27.5%, which is almost two and a half times the official index applicable to Buenos Aires City and Buenos Aires province

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:06 UTC

  Buenos Aires main airports cancel all flights as communications system collapses

  

  Flights began to be resumed late Monday in Argentina’s two main airports after they had to be cancelled due to technical problems with the Control Tower system.

• Monday, March 21st 2011 - 17:08 UTC

  A Southern Cone cruise considered “the best in the world” at Miami’s Seatrade

  

  A Southern Cone cruise (Uruguay, Argentina, Falkland Islands and Chile) was described as “the best in the world” by John Tercek, Vice President of Commercial Development, Royal Caribbean Cruises Limited, at last week’s Seatrade Cruise Shipping Miami.

• Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:50 UTC

  Organized labour insists in sharing presidential ticket with Cristina Kirchner

  

  Argentine organized labour continues to put pressure on the government insisting that a representative from the unions should be in the presidential ticket with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who is expected in the coming weeks to announce her re-election bid for next October elections.

• Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:28 UTC

  The night before the Argentine military coup 24 March 1976, according to Videla

  

  From jail where he is serving two life sentences for crimes against humanity Argentina’s former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla gave some insights to the day before the 24 March 1976 military coup when then president Isabel Martinez de Peron called him asking support from the Armed Forces for her eroding administration.