Argentina

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 12:09 UTC

  Argentine industries union rejects Venezuela in Mercosur

  

  Argentina’s powerful Industrial Union (UIA) urged Argentina's government to revise the possibility of integrating Venezuela as a member of the Mercosur, “after the reiterating actions which have implied the nationalization of companies in Venezuela”.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 12:05 UTC

  Brazilian companies free of nationalization spree, promises Chavez

  

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez told his Brazilian peer Lula da Silva that Brazilian corporations are safe from the current nationalization process in his oil-rich country. The two presidents met on Tuesday in Bahia to discuss Mercosur, energy, finances and regional integration.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2009 - 01:39 UTC

  UK/Argentine agreement on Falklands’ Next of Kin visit

  

  The UK Embassy in Buenos Aires has announced that UK and Argentine Government have decided to facilitate the initiative of the Commission of the Families of the Fallen to inaugurate the Memorial in Darwin Cemetery on the Falklands Islands.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2009 - 12:06 UTC

  Buenos Aires residents’ infatuated cultural self esteem

  

  A majority of Buenos Aires City residents consider themselves more enlightened and educated than the rest of Argentines and of Latinamericans with the movies as their main leisure distraction, according to a public opinion poll published in the Sunday edition of the newspaper Perfil.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2009 - 04:59 UTC

  Malvinas, magic word for Argentine children naming their schools

  

  Malvinas and world famous cardio-surgeon René Favaloro were the most popular names voted by students, teachers and parents for 32 schools from the Province of Buenos Aires. The initiative is part of the coming commemoration of Argentina’s bicentennial on May 25th 2010.

• Friday, May 22nd 2009 - 12:49 UTC

  Brazilian aircrafts for nationalized Aerolineas Argentinas

  

  The Argentine government signed Thursday a contract to purchase twenty mid range aircrafts from Brazilian manufacturer Embraer for recently nationalized flag carrier Aerolineas Argentinas. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said these will be the first new aircrafts for Aerolineas in 16 years.

• Friday, May 22nd 2009 - 12:21 UTC

  Argentine economy expanded 2.7% in March, says government

  

  Argentina's government said on Thursday the economy grew a better-than-expected 2.7% in March compared with the same month last year and closing the first quarter with a surprising 2.3%. But many analysts say the slowdown is far sharper.

• Friday, May 22nd 2009 - 12:07 UTC

  Obama sends a letter to Cristina for the May 25th celebration

  

  United States president Barack Obama has sent a letter to President Cristina Fernandez praising Argentina’s efforts “to work as a constructive and stabilizing force in the region and beyond”.

• Friday, May 22nd 2009 - 01:33 UTC

  The Kirchners under increased international isolation

  

  Argentina’s ruling couple, the Kirchners growing international isolation has been highlighted by Buenos Aires political analysts. The only leader who seems to visit Buenos Aires quite often is Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, while differences accumulate with neighbouring Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, with the more distant Mexico and Israel and there seems to be a growing distancing from the Obama administration.

• Thursday, May 21st 2009 - 11:12 UTC

  US Congress strong message to Argentina on defaulted obligations

  

  American Task Force Argentina (ATFA), a coalition of more than 40 taxpayer, investor, educator, Latino and agriculture organizations, commended members of the United States House of Representatives for introducing legislation imposing stiff penalties on wealthy and middle-income nations that, like Argentina, refuse to honour obligations to US creditors.