Argentina

• Tuesday, April 6th 2010 - 01:02 UTC

  Buenos Aires City surrounded by two million Argentines living in shanty towns

  

  Over two million people live in a thousand shanty towns in the surroundings of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires in conditions of extreme marginality and precariousness, according to official data released by the weekend press.

• Monday, April 5th 2010 - 12:12 UTC

  Argentina: Positive assessment of trade mission to China

  

  The head of the Argentine Fisheries Subsecretariat, Norberto Yauhar, assures that the assessment of his recent trip to China was very positive, and that “the objective of the trade mission was reached and, in many cases, surpassed expectations.”

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 22:22 UTC

  Mrs Kirchner blasts UN “double standards” on Falklands’ resolutions

  

  “Don’t try to scare us with the ghost that we are going to take Malvinas militarily”, said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the main commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Argentine troops landing in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 08:35 UTC

  Argentina to see biggest anti-British protests for years

  

  Britons have been warned to stay away from marches in Buenos Aires on Friday as thousands are expected to mass for Argentina's biggest anti-British protests in years.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 04:03 UTC

  Analysts doubt Argentina can sell global bonds at one digit interest rate

  

  Argentina’s accelerating inflation and deteriorating finances will undermine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s goal of selling global bonds with an interest rate below 10%, said Silvia Marengo who helps manage 500 million USD of debt at Falcon Private Bank in Zurich in a report compiled by Bloomberg.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 02:25 UTC

  Argentina begins next week to pay debts with Central Bank reserves

  

  Following an Argentine federal court ruling approving the use of Central Bank reserves for the payment of foreign debt the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will begin transactions next week using the liberated funds.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 02:10 UTC

  Argentina expects a 2009/2010 crop of 91 million tons, up 48%

  

  Argentina’s 2009/2010 crop is estimated in 91 million tons, 48% higher than the previous mainly because of improved yields thanks basically to more regular rainfall, courtesy of the El Niño climate phenomenon.

• Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 22:42 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner vows to lead “profound, cultural, diplomatic battle” to regain Malvinas

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the opening Tuesday of a photographic exhibition honouring the Malvinas women vowed before to lead “a profound, cultural, diplomatic and political battle on every front,” and to make use of “every resource made available by international law to regain the Malvinas Islands sovereignty.”

• Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 04:46 UTC

  Argentine dockworkers strike expands; 5.000 trucks waiting to unload

  

  Argentine dockworkers expanded the strike to eight terminals, mainly in the Greater Rosario port area, the heart of the country’s soy bean belt, demanding higher pay and improved working conditions. The conflict comes when Argentina, the world’s third exporter of the oil seed prepares to ship the latest crop.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:54 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner will head Malvinas commemoration April 2 in Ushuaia

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will head next Friday April 2 in Ushuaia commemorations to honour Malvinas veterans and those fallen during the 1982 conflict over the Falklands with Britain, according to Tierra del Fuego press reports.