Argentina

• Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 02:48 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner promises a laptop to each high school student

  

  Following on Uruguay’s successful experience, the Argentine government announced this week the distribution of three million laptops in government high schools.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2010 - 03:48 UTC

  CFK and Mujica discuss Bolivian gas and the Botnia pulp mill ruling

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK and her Uruguayan counterpart José Mujica met Monday afternoon during a surprise visit to the Olivos presidential residence in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2010 - 02:45 UTC

  Argentina protests Chinese sanitary restrictions on soy-oil imports

  

  Argentina formally protested on Monday a possible move by China to block imports of Argentine soybean oil in a trade row that threatens a key export of the country and last year involved almost 1.5 billion US dollars.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2010 - 02:42 UTC

  Argentina began servicing public debt using Central bank reserves

  

  Argentina began servicing public debt using Central Bank reserves after making its first payment Monday, according to sources from the Economy Ministry.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2010 - 02:20 UTC

  Argentine hake landings confirm lack of fisheries management

  

  Latest official data from Argentina’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Sub-secretariat indicates that 41.163 tons of hake (Merluccius hubbsi) were landed in Argentine ports between 1 January and 29 March. This is 33.5% less than in the same quarter of 2009 when 61.886 tons were unloaded.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2010 - 01:02 UTC

  Buenos Aires City surrounded by two million Argentines living in shanty towns

  

  Over two million people live in a thousand shanty towns in the surroundings of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires in conditions of extreme marginality and precariousness, according to official data released by the weekend press.

• Monday, April 5th 2010 - 12:12 UTC

  Argentina: Positive assessment of trade mission to China

  

  The head of the Argentine Fisheries Subsecretariat, Norberto Yauhar, assures that the assessment of his recent trip to China was very positive, and that “the objective of the trade mission was reached and, in many cases, surpassed expectations.”

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 22:22 UTC

  Mrs Kirchner blasts UN “double standards” on Falklands’ resolutions

  

  “Don’t try to scare us with the ghost that we are going to take Malvinas militarily”, said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the main commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Argentine troops landing in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 08:35 UTC

  Argentina to see biggest anti-British protests for years

  

  Britons have been warned to stay away from marches in Buenos Aires on Friday as thousands are expected to mass for Argentina's biggest anti-British protests in years.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 04:03 UTC

  Analysts doubt Argentina can sell global bonds at one digit interest rate

  

  Argentina’s accelerating inflation and deteriorating finances will undermine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s goal of selling global bonds with an interest rate below 10%, said Silvia Marengo who helps manage 500 million USD of debt at Falcon Private Bank in Zurich in a report compiled by Bloomberg.