Argentina

• Tuesday, August 18th 2009 - 07:28 UTC

  Argentina faces the worst squid season in years

  

  With only two weeks left, Argentina is facing the worst squid season in years forcing jiggers to abandon the fisheries given the poor catches.

• Monday, August 17th 2009 - 12:31 UTC

  It is official: Argentina’s economy contracted in May and June

  

  Argentina's economy officially contracted in May and June for the first time since the economic crisis in 2001 and 2002 which led to a massive default, according to the latest release from the official statistics office, Indec.

• Friday, August 14th 2009 - 05:27 UTC

  Nationalized Aerolíneas Argentinas remains deep in the red

  

  Argentina’s re-nationalized flag air carrier Aerolíneas Argentina lost in July 48 million US dollars which is “a little bit more” than the same month a year ago when the company belonged to the Spanish tourism group Marsans, according to the company’s current CEO Mariano Recalde.

• Friday, August 14th 2009 - 04:59 UTC

  Kirchner confirms decision to “democratize” access to soccer games

  

  Former Argentine president Néstor Kirchner, deputy elect for the government's Victory Front and husband of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, said he believed “all Argentine's should have free access to soccer games,” and denied reports suggesting he had met with the head of the AFA Argentine Football Association, Julio Grondona.

• Thursday, August 13th 2009 - 14:26 UTC

  Argentina’s July official inflation averaged half private consultants’ estimates

  

  Argentina on Wednesday released its official estimate for July inflation, but the data merely confirmed widespread suspicions that the national statistics agency continues to manipulate numbers.

• Thursday, August 13th 2009 - 08:37 UTC

  Argentine exodus since 2001 has reached 800.000 or 2.1% of total population

  

  Over 800.000 Argentines left the country following the 2001 economic debacle, according to the latest report from the International Organization for Migration, which in the last decade represents 2.1% of total population.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2009 - 12:10 UTC

  “Discrimination-free” and when possible “free-of-charge” soccer in Argentina

  

  The Argentine Football Federation Executive Committee agreed Tuesday to end the contract that for two decades had united AFA with television company Televisión Satelital Codificada, owner of the television rights for Argentina’s soccer.

• Tuesday, August 11th 2009 - 12:10 UTC

  The Kirchner couple wants football TV transmission to be free

  

  Argentina’s cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández said football transmission should be free because it is not only a national passion but an industry that generates many jobs and activity.

• Monday, August 10th 2009 - 12:21 UTC

  What a couple: “lefty hearts”, right wing pockets and can’t stop loving the poor

  

  What can bring together an Argentine farm leader and one of the most outstanding writers of the Spanish language: the Argentine presidential couple, “what a couple!”, and their personal wealth which skyrocketed in a few years.

• Monday, August 10th 2009 - 12:13 UTC

  Pope triggers “scandalous poverty” debate in Argentina

  

  Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli will be meeting this week with all Catholic bishops of his area following the controversy triggered by Pope Benedict XVI who in one his homilies spoke of the “scandalous poverty” and social inequality in Argentina.