Argentina

• Friday, January 29th 2010 - 09:12 UTC

  Argentine teamsters’ boss penchant for a five-star hotel in Punta del Este

  

  The head of Argentina’s powerful trade union confederation (CGT), teamster Hugo Moyano strongly denied Thursday that his union had plans to purchase a hotel in the Uruguayan posh sea side resort of Punta del Este.

• Friday, January 29th 2010 - 09:08 UTC

  Released from glaciers Patagonia mountains are growing taller

  

  Mountains along the southernmost swath of South America are growing taller at a record rate, say researchers, who attribute the growth to the accelerating loss of glaciers.

• Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 14:03 UTC

  Argentine financial markets waiting for outcome of Central Bank dispute

  

  Argentine financial markets closed lower on Wednesday waiting for the outcome of the ongoing dispute between President Cristina Kirchner and Central bank governor Martin Redrado which is now under consideration in Congress.

• Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 05:56 UTC

  Argentine hoki fishery signs up for MSC certification

  

  The hoki (Macruronus novaezelandiae magellanicus) trawl fishery operating in the Argentine Economic Exclusive Zone and adjacent waters entered full assessment to be considered for Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification. It is the second South American fishery to officially seek MSC certification of sustainability.

• Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 05:49 UTC

  Argentine beef exports soared 57% last year but trend “is not sustainable”

  

  Argentine beef exports last year soared 57% in volume and 11% in value compared to 2008, having totalled 419.000 tons and 1.65 billion US dollars according to an official release from the country’s National Food Health and Quality Service, Senasa.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 15:16 UTC

  Redrado conditions participation before congressional advisory committee

  

  The ousted head of the Central Bank Martín Redrado demanded Tuesday Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner revoke the DNU emergency decree which she had issued in order to dismiss him from his post as the Central Bank governor.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 11:21 UTC

  Patagonian ports open to Chinese jiggers if they have no links with Falklands

  

  Argentine Fisheries Under-secretary Norberto Yauhar is sponsoring a fishing cooperation agreement with Beijing that will allow Chinese flagged vessels to enter Argentine ports for provisions, repairs, unloading catches and landing transfers. The only condition is that the Chinese vessels must not have commercial ties with the Falkland Islands government.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2010 - 16:16 UTC

  Argentina rejects UK protest and territorial pretensions over the Falklands

  

  Argentina officially rejected Monday the United Kingdom’s protest against a bill which includes as Argentine territory the Falklands/Malvinas islands and other insular territories in the South Atlantic, according to a release in Buenos Aires from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2010 - 13:40 UTC

  Buenos Aires real estate market recovering from worst year in a decade

  

  The metropolitan Buenos Aires real estate market closed 2009 as the worst in the last ten years with the number of registered sales below the 2001 level. The good news however is that for the first time since the last quarter of 2008, December registered the first year-on-year advance.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2010 - 08:53 UTC

  Mujica expects a solution to pulp mill conflict with Argentina by next March

  

  Uruguay’s president-elect Jose Mujica said that the long standing conflict over the Botnia pulp mill, which has soured relations with neighbouring Argentina, will inevitably be solved but he will only be meeting with Argentine authorities and not with the pickets who are blocking bridges leading to Uruguay.