Argentina

• Saturday, April 19th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Choking Buenos Aires with no relief unless weather changes

  

  With no forecasts of change, smoke blanketing Buenos Aires and extending to neighboring Uruguay has thickened forcing local authorities to close airports, major highways and declare a yellow alert in many hospitals.

• Saturday, April 19th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  “Puerto Deseado” surveying north Falklands' waters

  

  The Argentine Navy scientific research vessel Puerto Deseado set to sea last Thursday towards the Falkland Islands to conclude collecting data and double checking on previous information referred to the outer limits of the continental shelf, contemplated in the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, reports the Argentine press.

• Friday, April 18th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Aerolineas could be returning to the “Argentine fold”

  

  The Spanish tourism operator Marsans which has a majority stake in Aerolineas Argentinas announced in Buenos Aires the intention of making the flag air carrier “ever more Argentine”, and simultaneously taking advantage of the expertise and opportunities the Spanish group can offer.

• Friday, April 18th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers and government reach agreement on beef

  Argentine farmers and government officials reached on Thursday a first agreement on a single issue beef, but insisted that many more points remain to be addressed. On Friday discussions will be focused on dairy and Monday on grains and the sliding export levies which triggered the 21 day farmers' strike and shortages conflict.

• Friday, April 18th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Scrub fires smoke covers Buenos Aires and Montevideo

  

  Argentine government and farmers caught up in a month-long confrontation over an export tax increase, clashed again Thursday because of the extensive burning of grasslands that has thrown a blanket of smoke over the capital Buenos Aires and has even reached parts of neighboring Uruguay.

• Friday, April 18th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina continental shelf claim “on time for May 2009”

  

  Argentina ratified this week that it will present on time (May 2009) continental shelf claims before the United Nations Continental Shelf Limits Commission as stipulated under the Law of the Sea. Argentine officials also denied Britain allegedly was trying to extend its continental shelf westerly from the Falkland Islands towards Tierra del Fuego.

• Thursday, April 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Twelve month inflation expectations in Argentina soar to 32.8%

  Inflation expectations among Argentine consumers for the next twelve months reached 32.8%, the worst since the strong recovery of the country's economy begun in 2002/03, according to the monthly report from the Di Tella University released Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  YPF oil and gas reserves down 20% in two years

  

  Spain's Repsol YPF revealed Wednesday in an official document that the company's oil and gas proven reserves in Argentina had dropped 20.3% in the course of two years.

• Thursday, April 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  New attempt to address Falklands' claim with PM Brown

  

  The Argentine press speculates with a meeting between President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Prime Minister Gordon Brown next month in Peru during the fifth Latinamerica-Caribbean-European Union summit, for which 24 leaders have been confirmed including the British PM.

• Thursday, April 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner fits velvet gloves and takes on the press

  

  In the midst of an escalating conflict between President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and the Argentine media, the government ordered a change in the channel grid of cable-TV companies.