Argentina

Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 - 02:10 UTC
Argentine fish and shellfish exports pick up in first quarter

Argentina exported 88.987 tons of fish and shellfish valued at 209.3 million US dollars in the first three months of 2009, according to the latest statistics from the National Food Safety and Quality Service (SENASA).
Saturday, April 18th 2009 - 09:39 UTC
Summit “first step for a new regional order” says Cristina

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said Friday that the Trinidad and Tobago summit “should be the first step for a new regional order” and recalled the previous summit in Argentina had signalled “an inflection point for the continent”.
Thursday, April 16th 2009 - 09:53 UTC
Lula da Silva has the highest approval rating; Cristina K the lowest

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva and Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe with over 70% approval have the best leaders’ performances in Latinamerica while in the other extreme figure Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner and Honduras Manuel Zelaya, below 30%, according to the prestigious Mexican pollster Consulta Mitofsky.
Wednesday, April 15th 2009 - 10:43 UTC
Kirchner denies recession and insists Argentina continues to expand

Two reliable private consultants and advisors confirmed that the Argentine economy has gone through two consecutive negative quarters, thus in recession. However former president Nestor Kirchner denies any recession and insists that the Argentine economy keeps expanding.
Tuesday, April 14th 2009 - 11:51 UTC
Argentina’s 2008/09 soy bean crop 16% below last year

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) downgraded significantly Argentina’s 2008/09 soy bean crop estimates. Only a month ago the volume forecasted was 43 million tons, but the latest was brought down to 39 million tons.
Monday, April 13th 2009 - 11:11 UTC
The success of Brazilian farming and Argentina’s disarray

If forecasts are confirmed the 70 million tons of the 2008/09 Argentine harvest would represent 2.9% of the world’s grain production when in previous crops it had reached 4.2%. Brazil in the meantime will have reached 5.5% of world production. Only a few years ago the difference was minimal with Brazil almost 4% and Argentina above 3%.
Monday, April 13th 2009 - 08:36 UTC
Argentine industry calls for “non tariff barriers” against world crisis

Argentina should appeal to “non tariff barriers” to protect itself from the global crisis said Hector Mendez, who this week takes over as head of the country’s largest federation of industries, Industrial Union of Argentina, after having elected to the post.
Thursday, April 9th 2009 - 12:56 UTC
Argentina admits “very serious” dengue epidemics “which has come to stay”

“Dengue is here to stay” in the Southern Cone and although not controllable it can be prevented , admitted Argentina’s Health Minister Graciela Ocaña as the mosquito transmitted disease reached metropolitan Buenos Aires following thousands of cases in the impoverished north which the government tried to downplay.
Thursday, April 9th 2009 - 08:36 UTC
Argentina looks again towards the IMF, says Buenos Aires press

Argentina could be at a turning point in its relation with the International Monetary Fund, IMF, particularly following the participation of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in the London G20 summit, according to reports in the Buenos Aires press.
Tuesday, April 7th 2009 - 19:21 UTC
Antarctic fuel oil ban to impact on Falklands tourism

FALKLANDS, Argentine, and Chilean cruise ship tourism is likely to be negatively impacted as a result of a ban on the use and carriage of Heavy Gas Oil (HGO) in Antarctic waters by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).