Argentina

• Sunday, February 10th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Cristina ready to travel and patch up relations with USA

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is preparing for an agenda of international meetings, both at home and overseas, with the purpose of fulfilling her electoral promise that global relations will be paramount for her administration, reports the Buenos Aires press.

• Saturday, February 9th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina's inflation controversy expands; IMF rebutted

  

  Argentina's controversial Statistics and Census institute, Indec, further fueled dispute over the accuracy of official data when it announced that the January consumer price index, CPI, rose 0.9%, the same percentage as November and December and well below reliable private estimates of 2%.

• Thursday, February 7th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  IMF asks Argentina about inflation data reliability

  

  The International Monetary Fund has asked Argentina's statistics office INDEC to clarify some methodology changes it introduced last year, echoing concerns among economists, statisticians --and public opinion-- over the reliability of the country's inflation data, reported the Buenos Aires press

• Wednesday, February 6th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  F Times: Argentine energy model “unsustainable”

  

  The energy model championed by Argentine President Cristina Fernández and her husband, former President Néstor Kirchner, keeping domestic energy prices and utilities tariffs artificially low to boost an economy recovering from a debt and devaluation crisis in 2001-2002, looks increasingly unsustainable.

• Wednesday, February 6th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Russian icebreaker supplying Argentine Antarctic bases

  

  The Russian icebreaker Vasili Golovnin contracted by the Argentine government to help with this year's Antarctic season is currently supplying fuel to Argentina's permanent base Marambio in the Antarctic Peninsula.

• Tuesday, February 5th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Humans' rights: Argentine dirty war trial opens

  

  The last army chief from Argentina's dictatorship and five other retired officers went on trial Tuesday for their alleged roles in the illegal detentions and torture of dissidents during military rule.

• Sunday, February 3rd 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Investigation unveils fraud with Malvinas war veterans' pension

  The Argentine federal justice has opened an inquiry into the Malvinas war veterans' pension scheme following on claims that at least 700, and possibly thousands, of non combatants are collecting monthly payments.

• Thursday, January 31st 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine pickets act as “border patrol and issue passports”

  

  Uruguayan officials reacted with dismay and indignation when it was confirmed that Argentine pickets are extending special “neighbor passes” to those wishing to cross a bridge linking the neighboring countries and which has been blocked in protest over the construction of a pulp mill in Uruguay.

• Thursday, January 31st 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina reopens export registries for wheat and corn

  

  Argentina announced this week the reopening the wheat and corn export registries, a measure that had an immediate impact in the US markets of Chicago and Kansas City.

• Wednesday, January 30th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina's statistics reliability again on the spotlight

  

  Inflation in Argentina allegedly reached 22% in 2007 according to a group of displaced experts from the country's Statistics and Census Institute, Indec which has been at the centre of an acrimonious and controversial dispute between the legally autonomous organization and the Kirchner administrations.