Argentina

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 02:25 UTC

  Argentina begins next week to pay debts with Central Bank reserves

  

  Following an Argentine federal court ruling approving the use of Central Bank reserves for the payment of foreign debt the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will begin transactions next week using the liberated funds.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 02:10 UTC

  Argentina expects a 2009/2010 crop of 91 million tons, up 48%

  

  Argentina’s 2009/2010 crop is estimated in 91 million tons, 48% higher than the previous mainly because of improved yields thanks basically to more regular rainfall, courtesy of the El Niño climate phenomenon.

• Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 22:42 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner vows to lead “profound, cultural, diplomatic battle” to regain Malvinas

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the opening Tuesday of a photographic exhibition honouring the Malvinas women vowed before to lead “a profound, cultural, diplomatic and political battle on every front,” and to make use of “every resource made available by international law to regain the Malvinas Islands sovereignty.”

• Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 04:46 UTC

  Argentine dockworkers strike expands; 5.000 trucks waiting to unload

  

  Argentine dockworkers expanded the strike to eight terminals, mainly in the Greater Rosario port area, the heart of the country’s soy bean belt, demanding higher pay and improved working conditions. The conflict comes when Argentina, the world’s third exporter of the oil seed prepares to ship the latest crop.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:54 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner will head Malvinas commemoration April 2 in Ushuaia

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will head next Friday April 2 in Ushuaia commemorations to honour Malvinas veterans and those fallen during the 1982 conflict over the Falklands with Britain, according to Tierra del Fuego press reports.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:52 UTC

  President Piñera’s Brother Will Dance For A Dream in Argentina

  

  Previously described as “a night club owner, musician, and notorious party animal” by Foreign Policy magazine, Miguel Piñera is taking steps to establish his career as a musician — conveniently outside the country where his brother is president.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:36 UTC

  Argentine leader challenges Mr. Kirchner to admit he will run in 2011

  

  Former Argentine take-care president Eduardo Duhalde anticipated that next year's ruling Justicialist Party primary elections will be a duo solo between him and also former president Néstor Carlos Kirchner.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 04:38 UTC

  Malvinas Families Commission founder resigns: he was Army spy (1981/1983)

  

  Hector Cisneros has resigned as president of the Malvinas Families Commission three days after it was revealed by a Buenos Aires newspaper (“Critica”) that he had worked for Argentine military intelligence during the last dictatorship (1976/1983).

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:40 UTC

  Argentina and Bolivia sign expansion of natural gas agreement

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met Friday with her Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales and signed a deal that expands until 2026 the current gas-sharing bilateral agreement, which is expected to supply the Argentine Northeast.

• Friday, March 26th 2010 - 22:01 UTC

  Argentine top union leader back-peddles in inflation controversy

  

  “Inflation in a growing country is good” said Hugo Moyano Argentina’s leader of the powerful labour unions confederation, CGT, a day after having openly complained that “inflation in Argentina is a fact, and nobody can deny it’s a reality”.