Argentina

• Friday, September 11th 2009 - 11:09 UTC

  Number of Malvinas Families next of kin traveling to Falklands is 375

  

  The Malvinas Families members that will be traveling to the Falkland Islands next month for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine Cemetery at Darwin will be limited to 375 (170 and 205) according to the latest reports from Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, September 10th 2009 - 11:47 UTC

  Malvinas Families peregrination to Falklands with no Argentine officials

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana confirmed officially that no Argentine official will be travelling with the Malvinas Families to the Falkland Islands for the inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin next October. “No, no one is travelling”, said Taiana when asked by the Argentine press.

• Thursday, September 10th 2009 - 05:05 UTC

  Argentine industrial activity in July contracts 9.5% and 8.8% in seven months

  

  With most sectors contracting industrial activity in Argentina plunged 9.5% in July compared to the same month a year ago accumulating in seven months a descent of 8.8%, according to an official report from the Argentine Industrial Union, UIA.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2009 - 03:11 UTC

  Argentina could be short of funds to repay debt by next December

  

  Argentina has admitted it does have sufficient funds to cancel all its debts for the rest of the year and this could be linked to the country’s rapprochement with the International Monetary Fund.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2009 - 08:33 UTC

  Argentina reports terrible squid season and lack of data on resource evolution

  

  The squid (Illex argentinus) season in Argentine waters closed with one of the worst records in recent history. Official statistics reveal that 61,249.4 tons were landed between January 1 and September 4, equivalent to 24.3% of the 251,892.7 tons landed between January and September 11 of 2008.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2009 - 08:21 UTC

  Daily flights Buenos Aires/Ushuaia starting October

  

  LAN Chile’s Argentine subsidiary announced an increase in flights from Buenos Aires to the Argentine port city of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego to meet peak season demand for leisure cruises to Antarctica.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2009 - 01:15 UTC

  Kirchners ready to allow IMF review of the Argentine economy

  

  Four years after Argentina froze relations with the International Monetary Fund under the administration of President Nestor Kirchner, the government of his wife Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is willing to accept an IMF review of the Argentine economy, according to Economy minister Amado Boudou, quoted in the Buenos Aires press.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:58 UTC

  Argentine pulp mill protestors promise to “fight on” whatever The Hague ruling

  

  With only a week left for the beginning of the hearings in the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the pulp mills dispute between Uruguay and Argentina, pickets that have been blocking bridges between the two neighbouring countries promised to keep on the struggle.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:06 UTC

  Argentine next-of-kin preparing for trip to open Darwin cemetery Memorial

  

  Over 300 relatives from Argentines combatants killed in 1982 during the Falkland Islands conflict are preparing for the trip for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, according to Cesar Trejo member of the Malvinas Families Commission.

• Saturday, September 5th 2009 - 13:17 UTC

  Argentine farmers end eight day boycott promising to “keep fighting”

  

  Argentine farmers marked on Friday the end of an eight-day sales boycott with rallies and marches promising to “keep fighting” in support of aid for peers suffering from the worst drought in decades and to eliminate the current export tariffs system which distorts production and threatens several crops.