Argentina

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 - 12:25 UTC

  Thousands of Argentine pickets camp in the world’s widest avenue

  

  Thousands of members from Argentine picket organizations camped Monday night in the world’s widest avenue, 9 de Julio in the heart of Buenos Aires demanding the incorporation of other groupings to the government’s unemployment subsidy plans and family allowances.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 - 11:58 UTC

  French Defence minister calls on Argentina to follow the steps of Brazil

  

  French Defence minister Hervé Morin said that Argentina could increase its international influence following on the steps of Brazil, which is currently modernizing its military hardware and planning on the long term.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 - 11:33 UTC

  Argentina’s last military dictator on trial for human rights abuses

  

  Argentina's last dictator and five military leaders who helped rule the country more than 25 years ago went on trial Monday on human rights charges

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 - 11:15 UTC

  Buenos Aires looking forward to a “very good cruise season”

  

  Buenos Aires City is looking forward to what it considers a “very good cruise season” with the number of visitors increasing 11% and the number of calls 15%, according to Hernán Lombardi Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Argentine capital.

• Monday, November 2nd 2009 - 14:09 UTC

  Antarctica cruise season begins in Ushuaia; 225 calls anticipated this year

  

  With the departure last week of icebreaker “Kapitan Khlebnikov” (*), Ushuaia marked the beginning of the Antarctica cruise season. Located in the extreme south of Argentina Ushuaia has become the gateway for Antarctic cruises virtually monopolizing 92% of the traffic

• Saturday, October 31st 2009 - 11:41 UTC

  Argentina and Uruguay again clash over the Botnia pulp mill

  

  The Argentine government strongly repudiated on Friday a report from the Environmental Board of Uruguay saying Argentina had “adulterated” information referred to the pulp mill dispute submitted to the International Court at The Hague.

• Friday, October 30th 2009 - 21:59 UTC

  Argentina buys wine from Chile to face shortfall in production

  

  Still hurting from a yearlong drought, Argentina is turning to Chile for wine imports in order to keep up with popular demand for wine.

• Friday, October 30th 2009 - 11:10 UTC

  Argentina Chile plan to bore two integration tunnels under the Andes

  

  Relations between Argentina and Chile are going through an optimum moment and once we drill through the Andes, “ghosts of the past will definitively have gone”, said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner during the first of her two day visit to Chile.

• Friday, October 30th 2009 - 11:07 UTC

  Buenos Aires city and province issue IOUs to pay suppliers

  

  Faced with extremely tight finances, both the city and province of Buenos Aires have decided to pay suppliers with bonds to bridge the widening spending gap, the Argentine State Supplier Union, or UAPE, said in a press release Thursday.

• Friday, October 30th 2009 - 06:14 UTC

  Argentina’s Air Force Antarctic Marambio base celebrates fortieth anniversary

  

  The Argentine Air Force commemorated on Thursday October 29 the fortieth anniversary of Air Base Vice-Commodore Gustavo Marambio, Argentina’s main logistic support in Antarctica which has seen uninterrupted activity since then.