Argentina

• Friday, April 3rd 2009 - 10:43 UTC

  Massive support for Alfonsin seen as warning to political system

  

  Tens of thousands of Argentines lined the streets of Buenos Aires on Thursday to watch the funeral procession of former President Raul Alfonsin in a public display of gratitude for a leader who conducted the country back to the longest period of democracy since 1983.

• Friday, April 3rd 2009 - 09:58 UTC

  First Argentine president to commemorate in London, Falklands 1982 landing

  

  An Argentine president headed for the first time a ceremony in London commemorating the 27th anniversary of the Argentine April 2 landing in the Falkland Islands which triggered in 1982 the South Atlantic conflict with the United Kingdom.

• Friday, April 3rd 2009 - 09:14 UTC

  Argentine province extends oil and gas concessions to US company

  

  United States Apache Corporation announced this week that the Argentine Patagonian province of Neuquen has agreed to extend eight federal oil and gas concessions for 10 additional years.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 13:47 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner approach to Malvinas issue infuriates Jewish community

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner strong lobbying for support from the Arab League in its dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands is proving to be a short lived pyrrhic victory since she involved Argentina in the Palestine question and infuriated the Jewish community.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 13:26 UTC

  Argentina mourns Alfonsin more revered in death than in life

  

  Thousands of Argentines have marched and thousands more were queuing Wednesday night to render their respects to former Argentine president Raul Alfonsin, who died on Tuesday evening and has been enshrined as the man who following the defeat of the Argentine dictatorship in the Falkland Islands conflict, helped start in 1983 the longest period of electoral democracy in this politically turbulent country.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 10:27 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner’s Malvinas Veteran Day message from London

  

  On the 27th anniversary of the Argentine landing in Falklands/Malvinas, which triggered the South Atlantic conflict in 1982, the Argentine government will commemorate Thursday April 2 the Day of the Veteran and the Fallen in the Malvinas War.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2009 - 11:45 UTC

  Argentina mourns the leader who paved the way to democracy in 1983

  

  Raúl Alfonsín whose presidency marked the return of democracy to Argentina and became a beacon for change in the rest of Latinamerica scourged by an era of military dictatorships, died Tuesday evening.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2009 - 11:42 UTC

  Argentina forecasted to export 10 million tons less of soy this year

  

  Argentina’s soybean crop is estimated to drop ten million tons this year with exports totalling 37 to 39 million, which means the country will receive 3.5 billion US dollars less and the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will see revenues contract by 1.2 billion US dollars.

• Monday, March 30th 2009 - 14:46 UTC

  Argentina contracts British PR firm to promote the country-brand

  

  The Argentine government has contracted Britain’s Bell Pottinger's international PR division to raise its profile in Europe and the Untied States as a business and tourism hub, according to reports in the Buenos Aires press later confirmed by the company.

• Monday, March 30th 2009 - 14:30 UTC

  Dengue reported and confirmed in outskirts of Buenos Aires

  

  The mosquito transmitted dengue viral epidemic has reached the outskirts of Buenos Aires according to the head of the Epidemiology Department from the province of Buenos Aires.