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Argentina

  • Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentina's trade surplus soars with commodity prices

    Argentina's trade surplus in February jumped 23.5% over a year ago reaching 982 million US dollars, but lower than expected because of a surge in imports according to the latest report from the Institute of Statistics and Census, Indec.

  • Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentina: 30.4% (10.8 m) live below the poverty line

    Higher food and fuel prices plunged 1.3 million Argentines below the poverty line in 2007, which means the income of 10.8 million Argentines is not enough to cover the costs of the basic food basket, according to a paper from the Buenos Aires think tank Sociedad de Estudios Laborales, SEL.

  • Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Buenos Aires Mayor blames Kirchners for farmers' lockout

    Macri supports farmers and blames lack of long term policies

    Buenos Aires City conservative Mayor Mauricio Macri blamed Argentina's farmers lockout on the government of President Cristina Kirchner and, in what seemed a reference to her and her husband and predecessor Néstor Kirchner, he criticized “those who seek eternal power”.

  • Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Mrs. Kirchner forced to cancel meeting with PM Brown

    No Heathrow luggage claim for Pte. Cristina Fernandez

    Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner cancelled her coming trip to Great Britain because of the worsening of the farmers' 17 days conflict. Mrs. Kirchner was expecting to talk about Argentina's Falklands' claims in London.

  • Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    CFK Malvinas Day message next Wednesday

    Malvinas Memorial at Pza San Martin in Buenos Aires

    Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will head next Wednesday April 2, --the 26th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands--, the main ceremony of the Veterans and Fallen in the Malvinas War Day.

  • Saturday, March 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    No Progress in Argentine Farm Talks

    Argentine farmers announced a temporary truce in a 16-day strike on Friday, but marathon talks with the government failed to yield an immediate agreement over disputed export tax hikes.

  • Friday, March 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    First steps to defuse Argentine gov. farmers' conflict

    CFK: "Lift the strike so we can then sit to dialogue"

    Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called on farm leaders to a “serious” dialogue, but cautioned that the more than two weeks long strike must be previously lifted.

  • Thursday, March 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentina farmers' conflict: stalemate traps government

    Pte. Fernandez describe farmers as “oligarchs” and defining the protests as “abundance pickets”

    The Argentine government farmers' conflict, on its fourteenth day seems to have reached a stalemate with all actors involved unable to decide what the next step is and adopting increasingly inflexible positions, even possibly loosing control of future events.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Extreme tension after CFK speech: indefinite farming strike

    Bs. Aires residents banging pots in a raucous, spontaneous outpouring of support for the farmworkers

    Argentine President Cristina Fernandez refused to ease tax hikes on agricultural exports Tuesday, facing down angry farmers embroiled in a nationwide strike that has all but halted production in one of the world's biggest beef-exporting nations.

  • Tuesday, March 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentine officials tell farmers “no dialogue under pressure”

    Road blocks are becaming a source of conforntation

    The Argentine government will not dialogue “under pressure” with striking farmers said Monday Justice minister Anibal Fernandez. Farmers have completed twelve days of surprising successful protests against the government's tax policy on grain, beef and dairy exports.