Argentina

• 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”.

• Friday, March 26th 2010 - 04:23 UTC

  Kirchner key ally says that inflation in Argentina can’t be denied, “it’s reality”

  

  Argentina’s main union leader and a close political ally of President Cristina Kirchner, Hugo Moyano said that “inflation in Argentina is a fact, and nobody can deny it’s a reality”. His words follow previous statement from Economy minister Amado Boudou who admitted “prices’ tension but “not necessarily inflation”

• Friday, March 26th 2010 - 04:18 UTC

  Brazil/Argentina hold new round of talks to facilitate bilateral trade

  

  Mercosur main country members, Argentina and Brazil begun on Thursday a two-day round of bilateral trade talks in Brazil to discuss basically whether to continue or not with the non-automatic licenses both countries hold.

• Friday, March 26th 2010 - 03:48 UTC

  Agreement would allow Chinese jiggers to operate from Argentine ports

  

  Norberto Yahuar, Argentina’s Fisheries Under Secretary is currently in China to advance on a fisheries cooperation agreement which would open Argentine ports to Chinese trawlers and jiggers while Beijing would lower tariffs to Argentine produce.

• Thursday, March 25th 2010 - 03:11 UTC

  Die-off of whales along Argentine Patagonia alarm scientific community

  

  The scientific community is alarmed by the die-off of southern right whales along the coasts of Argentine Patagonia. In the last three years some 300 specimens of these marine mammals have been found dead on the beaches of Valdes Peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean, a number far beyond what would be considered normal, according to scientific experts.