Presidents Lula da Silva of Brazil and Hugo Chavez from arrived Sunday night in Buenos Aires where they will meet President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to discuss pending issues, such as trade relations between the three countries.
Stating that whoever attacks the camp attacks Argentina and promising to never again accept being the caboose of the decisions that compromise the farm's integrity and destiny, the president of the Argentine Rural Society Lucinao Miguens inaugurated this weekend the country's main agro-show in the Palermo premises.
United Nations General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim yesterday met with Vice-President Julio Cobos and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana as part of an official three-day visit to Argentina, which is part of a wider tour in South America.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, who has spent most of her first eight-months in office in a deep political crisis, defended her administration on Saturday and ruled out further cabinet changes.
The Argentine government is re-drafting modifications to the grains and oilseeds exports tax system with the purpose of raising the levy on soy but reducing it for wheat and corn, according to reports in the Buenos Aires media.
Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has a negative image rating of 50.4% and a positive one of only 19.2%, according to the results of an opinion poll conducted by the Giacobbe & Asociados consultancy which were released recently.
Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral have been rated among the worst air carriers out of a total of 90 in five continents according to the Argentine Tourism Law Association, Aadetur, which ranks them 81 and 82.
Argentine construction activity fell the most in more than four years last month as faster inflation and a farmers strike threatened to undermine a five year running expansion of the economy.
During the second quarter of this year, an estimated 8.5 billion US dollars left Argentina, double the worst quarter in 2007 and higher than the most negative of private forecasts, according to the latest information from the Argentine Central Bank.
A delegation from Russia's Federal Veterinary and Phyto-Sanitary Control Service (Rosselkhoznadzor) this month visited the South Buenos Aires Regional Centre of the National Food Safety and Quality Service (SENASA), and a number of fisheries plants and vessels of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires.