Argentina

Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina offered end of pickets for delay in opening pulp mill

Uruguay rejected an Argentine proposal for a truce in the pulp mills conflict during the recent two days technical meeting held earlier this week in New York under the “dialogue facilitating efforts” of the Spanish Crown.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Change is just beginning says candidate Cristina Kirchner

Argentine Senator and presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that in Argentina “change is just beginning” because the current President Kirchner administration has managed to reinstate the constitutional democratic system.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez again to the rescue of Argentina's financial woes

Argentina' cabinet chief Alberto Fernandez confirmed Thursday that the coming week Venezuela will again purchase Argentine sovereign bonds for which “we Argentines should, and must be fully acknowledged to President Hugo Chavez” for the financial help extended.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
“Fiscal orthodoxy”, once Cristina K becomes president

Faced with the growing turbulence of global financial markets and Senator Cristina Fernandez October 28 presidential bid Argentine President Nestor Kirchner has instructed his advisors to promote domestic consumption and ensure economic expansion, but as of next November “fiscal revenue must be higher than expenditure” according to reliable political sources in Buenos Aires.
Wednesday, August 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina received 17.4% more tourists in half year

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Argentina during the first half of 2007 increased 17.4% reaching 1.037.226, reported the Argentine Tourism Secretariat.
Wednesday, August 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Santa Cruz fishing conflict dead locked; Spain concerned

The fishing industry conflict in Patagonia's Puerto Deseado where striking workers torched six processing plants and has ceased all activities in the sector for almost a month is far from a solution and could further escalate, warn local authorities.
Sunday, July 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
K Governors complete Kirchner's presidential ticket

Argentine dissident opposition members proclaimed this Saturday governor Julio Cobos as Cristina Kirchner's ticket companion for the coming October presidential election which according to opinion polls favor the incumbent candidate.
Sunday, July 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Opinion polls show Cristina K comfortably winning in October

Argentina's First Lady Cristiana Kirchner is set to win the coming October presidential election in the first round with no need of a run off, according to public opinion polls published in Buenos Aires daily Sunday editions.
Saturday, July 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner claims there's a plot to hike inflation indexes

Argentine prosecutors have requested that Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno and the newly-appointed Beatriz Paglieri, the official in charge of calculating inflation, be summoned to testify.
Friday, July 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
US calls on Argentina to honor repudiated sovereign debt

The American Task Force Argentina (ATFA) applauded Wednesday the US Government for formally stating for the first time that the government of Argentina must honor the repudiated sovereign debts owed to international creditors, “including over 20 billion US dollars in default claims by international bondholders” and that these lingering issues “adversely impact Argentina's investment climate”.