Argentina

• Wednesday, August 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Big Mac index has Argentina among most expensive countries

  

  According to the Big Mac index from The Economist which measures purchasing power parity, Argentina continues to climb and is rapidly becoming one of the most expensive countries in the world.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Spain asks Argentina for “stable economic relations framework”

  

  Spain's Vice president Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega called on Argentina for “a stable framework of economic relations, essential to generate confidence” among investors. Virtually the same words presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner faced from Spain's main businessmen during her late July visit to Madrid.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez hails Cristina K as Argentina's next president

  

  Visiting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez confirmed Monday in Buenos Aires the joint issuing with Argentina of a new sovereign South Bond and proclaimed that Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is already “the president of the Argentines”.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina successfully tests rocket for space research

  Argentina successfully tested at the beginning of July the Tronador I (Thunderer) rocket, the first step of a project to join the space race having as a target a rocket capable of sending a satellite into orbit.

• Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine: Port of Mar del Plata returns to normal

  

  The port of Mar del Plata, in the Province of Buenos Aires, began to recover its normal momentum after a 10-day blockade. Once the workers accepted the entrepreneurs' proposal on a guaranteed minimum wage and their legalised situation within a 100-day period, the fish skinning workers finally lifted their strike, and the sector's activity has resumed.

• Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community rejects Chavez visit

  Representatives from the Argentine Jewish community expressed their “rejection and shame” over this Monday's visit of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez who has strong political ties with Iran that has forecasted the destruction of Israel and is allegedly linked to a deadly attack on a 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish community center.

• Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  President Kirchner's confidence index keeps eroding

  With less than three months for next October presidential election the Nestor Kirchner administration is going through one of its worst moments since he first took office in May 2003, according to the Confidence Index from the Torcuato Di Tella University.

• Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina offered end of pickets for delay in opening pulp mill

  Uruguay rejected an Argentine proposal for a truce in the pulp mills conflict during the recent two days technical meeting held earlier this week in New York under the “dialogue facilitating efforts” of the Spanish Crown.

• Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Change is just beginning says candidate Cristina Kirchner

  Argentine Senator and presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that in Argentina “change is just beginning” because the current President Kirchner administration has managed to reinstate the constitutional democratic system.

• Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez again to the rescue of Argentina's financial woes

  Argentina' cabinet chief Alberto Fernandez confirmed Thursday that the coming week Venezuela will again purchase Argentine sovereign bonds for which “we Argentines should, and must be fully acknowledged to President Hugo Chavez” for the financial help extended.