Argentina

• Friday, August 31st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Eight coalitions register for Argentine presidential vote

  

  As the deadline to register coalitions for the Argentine October 28 presidential vote expired this week, eight alliances registered, among them, the one led by first lady Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, which is widely predicted to obtain a first-round victory in the face of a highly dispersed opposition.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine company strikes gas in Magallanes Region

  Argentine oil corporation Geopark Holdings Ltd announced Tuesday it had discovered gas in one of the several exploratory wells drilled in Chile's extreme south region of Magallanes.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina trusts China will not adopt trade counter measures

  

  Argentina trusts China will not adopt reprisals following the latest trade restrictions on imports recently decided by President Nestor Kirchner's administration and which affect many Chinese goods, Argentine Secretary of Commerce Alfredo Chiaradía said on Wednesday.

• Monday, August 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentines Win World Tango Championships

  

  Argentina's tango pair Natalia Tonelli Attori and Fernando Gracia won the fifth edition of the Tango World Championship on Sunday in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, August 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Malvinas recovery, “a long term issue if to be solved peacefully”

  

  “Recovery of Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland/Malvinas islands will not be defined in the short term or near future” admitted an advisor from the Argentine Foreign Affairs ministry who warned that “such a negotiation needs patience”.

• Saturday, August 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Satellite tracking of penguins' migration in South Atlantic

  

  This week Professor Dee Boersma and student Elizabeth Skewgar, selected six adult male penguins from rehabilitation centres at two coastal towns in Southern Argentina--San Clemente del Tuyú and Mar del Plata--to carry satellite transmitters during their migration back to their breeding colonies reports www.penguinstudies.org

• Friday, August 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Energy shortages punish Argentine July industrial production

  

  Argentina's July industrial production grew 2.7% over the same month a year ago and actually declined 2.1% compared to June 2007 because of the energy crisis which forced many factories to reduce production, according to the latest release from the country's Statistics and Census Office, Indec.

• Friday, August 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner official says no “transparent” inflation index until November

  Argentina's cabinet chief Alberto Fernandez promised union leaders on Friday that the controversial Consumer Prices Index, CPI, will be “transparent” as of next October because the government is intent on ensuring the chances of presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, reports La Nacion.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Interpol arrest warrant for the cash-filled suitcase man

  

  Interpol Argentina Office said Wednesday an international arrest warrant has been issued for a Venezuelan-US businessman wanted in Argentina on fraud charges stemming from the seizure of a cash-filled suitcase in a Buenos Aires airport.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Unrelenting upheaval in President Kirchner's home province

  Argentine president Nestor Kirchner faced on Tuesday another political challenge in his own turf, the province of Santa Cruz he ruled for years and where unions and other social groups marched along the capital Rio Gallegos to reject violence and bullying by former local allies of the president, one in particular who last Friday with his vehicle run over seventeen protestors.