Argentina

• Monday, July 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Lavagna promises to fight poverty and unify Argentines

  

  Former Economy minister Roberto Lavagna, often credited with helping Argentina rebound from a deep crisis, launched on Saturday his campaign for the October presidential race with a promise to fight poverty and unify Argentines.

• Monday, July 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  CK begins in Spain the campaign trail leading to October 28

  

  Argentine Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner begins this Monday in Madrid her first overseas tour since becoming presidential candidate with the purpose of increasing bilateral relations with Spain. Argentine elections are scheduled for October 28.

• Sunday, July 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Striking fishermen in Patagonia agree truce until Wednesday

  

  Striking fishermen in Patagonia who caused considerable damage to several processing plants which they torched last Friday accepted mediation in the conflict from the provincial government of Santa Cruz.

• Sunday, July 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner government payroll balloons at 441 per day rate

  

  Argentina last year under President Nestor Kirchner contracted 161.000 government employees at federal, provincial and municipal level, which is equivalent to 441 per working day, (or 18 every 60 minutes) according to La Nacion Sunday edition.

• Saturday, July 21st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Rampaging fishermen set six plants on fire in Santa Cruz

  

  Striking Argentine fishermen in Patagonia rampaged and set on fire property and vehicles belonging to several of the companies in conflict, two of them Spanish. The serious incident took place in Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz province, 520 kilometers from where President Nestor Kirchner and his candidate wife were on an official event.

• Saturday, July 21st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine Defence Minister backtracks on FAL rifle ignorance

  

  While leading government figures continued their onslaught on a judge who has summoned Defence Minister Nilda Garré in a gunrunning case, the minister backtracked yesterday on her previous claims to ignorance as to what a FAL (light automatic rifle) is.

• Friday, July 20th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mrs Kirchner launches presidential bid promising continuity

  

  Argentina's First Lady, Senator Cristina Fernandez Kirchner launched late Thursday evening her campaign to become the country's first elected woman president praising her husband's administration and pledging to lift Argentines self esteem.

• Friday, July 20th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  The Kirchner model: king and queen penguin

  

  The “first lady” of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, launched this week the campaign to succeed her husband Néstor as president. This is less a story of Evita Perón or Hillary Clinton than a political fix by illiberal architects of a failed model of governance, says Celia Szusterman in Agora Vox, the Citizen Media, European Union.

• Thursday, July 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Energy shortages impact on Argentine industrial activities

  For the first time since Argentina begun its strong recovery in 2003, industrial production contracted apparently because of the escalating energy problems and restrictions, according to the Buenos Aires think-tank FIEL which regularly releases monthly reports on economic and other activities.

• Thursday, July 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Sea trials for Comodoro Rivadavia bio-fuel powered fishing vessel

  

  The first fishing vessel powered with bio-fuel, a mix of micro Patagonian algae with hake and squid residue, set to sea from Comodoro Rivadavia this week reports the Argentine press.