Argentina

• Tuesday, January 16th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine foreign debt negotiating team invited to Ecuador

  Ecuadorian new authorities are in contact with the team that successfully negotiated the restructuring of Argentina's foreign debt with the purpose of undertaking a similar process and significantly reduce the “burden” of the country's financial commitments.

• Sunday, January 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Psychiatric tests to decide Peron's wife extradition

  

  Former Argentine president Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, 75, will undergo psychiatric tests to determine whether the absences and mental fragility exposed before a Spanish judge were real or “simulated” to avoid extradition.

• Sunday, January 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Pulp mills dispute moves again to The Hague

  

  Argentina will formally present Monday before the International Court of The Hague the full background of its case against Uruguay for having unilaterally authorized the location of pulp mills along the river Uruguay which is regulated by a joint statute dating back to 1975.

• Saturday, January 13th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Former Argentine president arrested in Madrid

  

  Spanish police arrested Friday former Argentine president Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, 75, in her home in Madrid over the disappearance of a leftist activist in 1976.

• Saturday, January 13th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Petrobras announces 2 billion dollars in Argentina over 5 years

  Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras's Argentine unit Petrobras Energía SA “plans to invest more than two billion dollars over the next five years in Argentina” and start this year exploring oil on Argentina's territorial sea, Petrobras Energía new Director General Carlos Fontes said.

• Friday, January 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Tax on Argentine soy exports to subsidize food basket

  

  With the purpose of ensuring in 2007 an inflation of one digit, the Argentine government announced subsidies for items making up the basic food basket to be partially financed with additional taxing on soybean exports.

• Friday, January 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina says “Oust Botnia” stamped bills fully valid

  

  Argentina's Central Bank said yesterday that bills that have been stamped the legend “Oust Botnia” amid a dispute between Argentina and Uruguay over a Uruguayan pulp mill – and that in hundreds of cases have been retained by cashiers as false — are fully valid and cannot be rejected by anyone or retained by banks.

• Friday, January 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine Jan-Nov 2006 fish & seafood exports top those of whole 2005

  

  Argentina in the first 11 months of last year exported 550,000 tonnes of fresh and processed sea and river fish and seafood for 1.15 billion dollars, more than in the 12 months of 2005, when it sold abroad 445,000 tonnes for 799 million dollars, the SENASA phytosanitary watchdog said in a report yesterday.

• Thursday, January 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine stock market seen slowing down this year after strong 2006 increase

  The Argentine stock market is expected to continue growing this year but not to match the 35 percent rise that placed it among the world's ten top performers last year, among other reasons,
  
  because that increase was mainly based on a 110-percent rise in steel company Tenaris, something that is unlikely to be duplicated, brokers told MercoPress

• Thursday, January 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Arrest warrant for former president Isabel Peron

  

  An Argentine judge has ordered the arrest of former President Isabel Peron over the disappearance of a leftist activist while she ruled between 1974 and 1976.