Argentina

• Tuesday, January 12th 2010 - 17:19 UTC

  Martin Redrado, from “golden boy” to centre stage

  

  Martin Redrado the Argentine reinstated Central Bank president who dared defy the all powerful presidential Kirchner-couple is a low profile liberal economist who became involved in politics with former president Carlos Menem.

• Monday, January 11th 2010 - 13:05 UTC

  Argentina says that import licences saved over half a million jobs

  

  Argentina’s Production Ministry has revealed documents indicating that some 542,370 job posts were saved by the application of non-automatic import licences. Some 21,510 jobs were saved by anti-dumping measures, which led to the protection of 563,880 jobs through the prohibition of mass importation of low-cost products.

• Monday, January 11th 2010 - 12:33 UTC

  Central bank conflict: Argentina’s institutional soundness at stake

  

  Argentina's government filed an appeal this weekend against a court ruling that blocked its plan to use Central Bank reserves to pay debts and ordered the bank president's reinstatement, the Cabinet chief said.

• Saturday, January 9th 2010 - 14:15 UTC

  Botnia dispute “possibly linked” to burglaries in Uruguayan embassy in Argentina

  

  Uruguayan Foreign Affairs minister Pedro Vaz confirmed Friday that the embassy in Buenos Aires suffered several attacks, burglaries and threats during the last five year period and did not discard it could possibly be linked to the dispute with Argentina over the construction of a pulp mill on a shared border river.

• Saturday, January 9th 2010 - 14:13 UTC

  Argentine sovereign bond holdouts reject latest payment offer

  

  Argentina's new debt-swap offer to US creditors is “unacceptable” and does not improve on a proposal it made five years ago, the president of the debt-holding group Argentina Task Force, Robert Shapiro, said on Thursday, quoted by French news agency AFP.

• Saturday, January 9th 2010 - 08:11 UTC

  Clash for Argentina’s Central bank reserves turns into political turmoil

  

  Martin Redrado was “restored” Friday to his post as President of the Argentine Central Bank following an injunction from Federal Judge María José Sarmiento. Redrado had been removed Thursday by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner through an emergency decree for having resisted releasing 6.6 billion US dollars from the bank’s reserves

• Friday, January 8th 2010 - 08:11 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner gets her way and will pay debts with Central bank reserves

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her cabinet signed Thursday a disputed decree removing Central Bank President Martin Redrado from office amid a fight over the use of bank reserves to pay debt due this year.

• Thursday, January 7th 2010 - 17:27 UTC

  Former Argentine ambassador in Montevideo praises Uruguay’s “three Joes”

  

  The Argentine government accepted on Wednesday the resignation of its ambassador in Uruguay, Hernan Patiño Meyer who has been involved in a political controversy following comments praising Uruguayan president-elect Jose Mujica.

• Thursday, January 7th 2010 - 17:17 UTC

  Political standoff in Argentina over sacking of Central Bank president

  

  A political standoff over the head of Argentina's central bank materialized Wednesday after the bank's president declined to support a plan to use 6.5 billion US dollars in reserves to pay debt.

• Thursday, January 7th 2010 - 17:13 UTC

  Argentina expects record corn yield and exceptional sorghum crop

  

  Argentina, the world’s second-largest corn exporter could increase output by more than 42% this year from initial estimates as spring rains boost yields to a record, the country’s main corn growers group said.