Argentina suspended Wednesday natural gas shipments to neighbouring Chile to ensure domestic supplies as one of the coldest winters in recent history grips Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and the south of Brazil.
A week after Argentina's First Lady Cristina Kirchner was confirmed as the government's candidate for the October presidential election, several public opinion polls show her vote intention rating on the rise and closing in on that of her husband President Nestor Kirchner. But there are also surprising replies about the president's political comeback project for 2011.
Argentina has no excuse to avoid repaying private German sovereign bond holders who lost out in the worst sovereign debt collapse in modern history, Germany's top court said Friday.
Argentina' devalued Statistics and Census Office, Indec, announced on Thursday June's official inflation, 0.4% and 3.9% for the first half of the year which is one full point off from the same period in 2006.
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner denied emphatically on Wednesday that his administration was assessing the rationalization of electricity supply to homes and insisted that those versions are only looking to destabilize his government.
Argentina has requested energy assistance from Brazil to overcome the very extreme winter the country is suffering, according to sources in Brasilia reports the Brazilian press.
The Chilean Air Force rescued over the weekend an Argentine aircraft stranded on a glacier in the Antarctic Peninsula, according to an official release.
An Argentine dissident opposition governor but aligned with the current administration will complete the presidential ticket for next October which as announced over the weekend will be headed by the First Lady, Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Argentine President Néstor Kirchner will not run for reelection in October, but his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, will run in his place, according to Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez.
Electric energy cuts required by the national government affected operation levels for most of the country's fishery companies.