Argentina

Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 23:46 UTC
Argentine minister denies soybean oil exports to China “have been interrupted”

Argentine Agriculture Minister Julián Domínguez said Tuesday that soybean oil exports to China “have not been interrupted” and assured that supplying companies “have promised to readapt themselves to the Asian country's demands”.
Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 22:33 UTC
Argentina opens squid season to the north given poor catches south of parallel 44

Argentina’s Federal Fisheries Council, CFP, advanced fifteen days to April 15 the opening of the Illex squid fishery to the north of parallel 44°. The measure was taken after considering petitions from the Argentine Fishing Industry Chamber (CAIPA) and the Council of Argentine Fisheries Firms (CEPA), given the poor catch volumes of squid to the south of parallel 44.
Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 05:59 UTC
Argentine Congress paralyzed; senators summoned by the press

Argentine Vice-President and Senate head Julio Cobos published a paid ad in the Monday edition of a Buenos Aires newspaper, where he summons those senators who had been absent to last week's session as a way of exerting pressure for next Wednesday round of debate in the Upper House.
Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 05:55 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner dream comes true: half an hour with President Obama

US President Barack Obama will meet Tuesday with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit being held in Washington. According to the White House, Obama will gather for roughly a half hour with the Argentine Head of State at 4:00 pm local time.
Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 00:25 UTC
Washington Post ad calls on Mrs Kirchner to cancel coal plant in Patagonia

In an attempt to take advantage of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's visit to the US (CFK is attending the Nuclear Security Summit), Greenpeace has posted a paid announcement on The Washington Post newspaper as a way to protest against the construction of a coal-fuelled power plant in Río Turbio, Santa Cruz province.
Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:25 UTC
Argentine Central Bank props the Peso with Euro operations

Argentina has been forced to buy Euros in the local market to control the exchange rate of the US dollar relative to the Peso in a complicated move but necessary to avoid the risk of having additional Central Bank funds seized in New York.
Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:03 UTC
Patagonia indigenous had highly organized, dynamic and hierarchical society

Argentine and Spanish researchers have shown that indigenous societies in Patagonia, the southernmost region of the Earth inhabited by humans over the past 13,000 years, were not static and marginal as had always been thought, but in fact had high levels of social organisation.
Saturday, April 10th 2010 - 04:44 UTC
Argentina announces debt-swap and invites US corporations to invest

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, speaking before the United States Chamber of Commerce confirmed that the debt-swap is to be launched between Wednesday and Thursday of next week and strongly praised Argentina’s conditions “for making business and investing”.
Saturday, April 10th 2010 - 03:05 UTC
First lesbian marriage in Argentina: both are 67 and couple for 30 years

Two women that were exiled during the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976/1983) got married Friday in Buenos Aires, the first wedding among lesbians in the country, reported the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Federation of Argentina, or FALGBT.
Friday, April 9th 2010 - 03:01 UTC
Piñera and Cristina committed to boost bilateral relations and integration

Chile and Argentina pledged Thursday to deepen bilateral relations with visiting president Sebastian Piñera saying that “the best of our relationship is yet to come” and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner anticipating that “ideological differences” won’t be an impediment to keep advancing in cooperation and joint projects.