Argentina

• Monday, March 28th 2011 - 16:28 UTC

  More than forty Argentine wineries participating at the Pro Wein 2011

  

  More than forty Argentine wineries will be participating this week at the Pro Wein 2011 wines and spirits trade exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany, considered one of the most important of Europe and which attracts some of the best professionals.

• Monday, March 28th 2011 - 04:46 UTC

  Wikileaks: Corruption rampant in Argentina says US, German, Spanish diplomats

  

  Diplomats from United States, Germany, Spain and Finland repeatedly expressed their concerns about the level of corruption in Argentina in recent years according to the contents of several Wikileaks cables published in the Buenos Aires media.

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 08:33 UTC

  Repsol divests another 6.67% of its stake in Argentina’s YPF

  

  Spain’s main oil company Repsol has listed 26.21 million shares of YPF on the New York Stock Exchange for 1.08 billion US dollars as part of a plan to divest its stake in its Argentine unit.

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 08:29 UTC

  Swiss ambassador denies “any plot or anything of the sort” against Moyano

  

  Swiss Ambassador in Argentina Johannes Mattyasy said that “there was no complot, pressure or anything of the sort” in the request of information on CGT Labour Confederation leader Hugo Moyano in connection to a case of money laundering.

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 04:15 UTC

  Argentina recalls 35 years of one of its darkest periods in recent history

  

  Thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities Thursday evening under the slogan “Memory, truth and justice” to evoke 35 years of the last military coup that left a toll of an estimated 30.000 killed and disappeared detainees.

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:06 UTC

  IMF mission travels to Argentina in April to help design a new national CPI

  

  The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it will send a team to Argentina again next month to continue work on revamping the government's discredited inflation measure, and will provide specific recommendations.

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:00 UTC

  Obama to CFK: “can we have our (US Air Force seized) equipment back”

  

  US President Barack Obama expressed concern about the recent incident in which Argentina seized part of the cargo of a US military plane that was carrying supplies for a joint military exercise, according to US newspaper The Miami Herald’s Argentine columnist Andrés Oppenheimer.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 19:47 UTC

  Uruguay forecasts beef exports will total 1.4 billion USD in 2011

  

  Uruguayan beef exports should reach 1.4 billion US dollars in 2011 according to an announcement this week from the country’s Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Tabare Aguerre.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 18:54 UTC

  Argentine union leader Moyano says workers must be included in ballot tickets

  

  Argentina’s organized labour leader Hugo Moyano called on Wednesday for additional workers' presence in the ballots for the coming October election. “It’s not possible that us workers, who created Peronism, are excluded from the ballots” he said.

• 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.