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Argentina

  • 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.

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

    Argentina's foreign debt stands at 123 billion US dollars

    Argentina's foreign debt stood at the end of 2007 at 123.197 billion US dollars, a 13.3% hike over the 108.762 billion of 2006, according to the latest report from the country's Statistics and Census Institute, Indec.

  • Monday, March 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Farmers' conflict in Argentina seems out of control

    Argentine industrialists and teamsters called on Sunday for dialogue to end the farmers' massive, crippling strike which threatens to leave the main cities short of meat, dairy produce and other food staples. The protest begun ten days ago and there's no solution on sight.

  • Monday, March 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentine Armed Forces running out of officers

    Argentina is preparing a package of benefits to retain military officers, who are abandoning the services attracted by higher salaries and better working conditions in the civilian sector, reports the Buenos Aires press.

  • Thursday, March 20th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Aircraft remains trawled in S. Atlantic date back to 1961

    ARA Texan SNJ-5C

    Remains of a military aircraft trawled by an Argentine fishing vessel 159 kilometers off Santa Cruz belong to an Argentine Navy North American SNJ-5C Texan that went down in 1961 and not to aircrafts involved in the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict as originally believed.