Argentina

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentina purchasing 12 T-6C Texan training aircraft; budget too 'small' for more shopping

  

  Argentina has few funds available to replace an outdated military fleet beyond buying 12 Beechraft Texan aircraft to train pilots, Defense Minister Julio Martinez admitted. He said actual plans were more modest than those reported by media in Argentina and Brazil in recent months, which said the government was interested in buying war planes from abroad, including from Brazil's Embraer or Mig fighters from Russia.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 10:37 UTC

  Argentine minister confident agriculture and public works will boost the economy

  

  Argentine Finance minister Nicolas Dujovne said on Tuesday that the economy's recovery at the start of the year was based on investment and not in consumption. “It is a heterogeneous recovery, with performance in different sectors: government social expenditure was up 70% but manufacturing was down 80%, mainly because of the Brazilian recession, and domestic contraction”, admitted the minister.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 10:25 UTC

  Argentina's economic activity up 1.1% year to year in January

  

  Argentina's economic activity grew in January year to year. Economic activity was 1.1% percent higher in January than twelve months before, the first year-on-year growth since last March, according to the latest release from the revamped stats office, Indec.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 10:15 UTC

  It's official: 12.7 million Argentines live in poverty, 30.3% of the population

  

  Argentina's official poverty index in the second half of 2016 dropped to 30.3%, an estimated 12.7 million people, from 32.2% in the first half according to the country's stats office Indec. The 30.3% index includes 6.1% of indigence, which is also below the 6.3% of the first half. The drop means that 800.000 people are no longer in the poverty category index.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 07:59 UTC

  Netherlands prepared to help with Falklands' dialogue, once UK leaves the EU

  

  Holland is prepared to contribute to the Falklands/Malvinas dialogue between Argentina and UK, once Britain has definitively left the European Union, said on Tuesday foreign minister Susana Malcorra who is part of the official delegation of president Mauricio Macri state visit to the Netherlands.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2017 - 08:24 UTC

  Argentine government offices can't stop calling the Islands... Falklands

  

  Argentine government offices and dependencies don't seem to be able to get things right. When they publish maps of Argentina including the disputed South Atlantic Islands, on several occasions they have identified them as the Falkland Islands, and when not simply forgot to include them.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2017 - 08:12 UTC

  Argentina defines continental shelf limits with the exception of the Falklands and Antarctica areas

  

  Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra has announced that Argentina has definitive international support for its defined continental shelf limits, with the exception of the Falklands/Malvinas, South Georgia, in dispute with the UK, and those covered by the Antarctic Treaty, which are not considered by the UN because of a sovereignty litigation or an international treaty.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2017 - 07:54 UTC

  Chile, Argentina and Uruguay planning greater coordination of cruise circuits

  

  Punta Arenas Austral Ports Company, EPA, was part of the Chilean stand at the Seatrade Cruise Global fair which took place in mid March in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and attracts the best of the cruise industry, operators and port terminals from all the world.

• Monday, March 27th 2017 - 08:36 UTC

  Labor and social conflicts eroding the image of Argentine president Macri

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri is facing a challenging scenario in a crucial year of midterm elections.

• Monday, March 27th 2017 - 08:08 UTC

  Argentina's naval trainee tall ship “Libertad” scheduled to call at Portsmouth

  

  Argentina's Navy school vessel, tall ship Libertad left Buenos Aires on Saturday for its 46th training world tour, scheduled to last six months calling in thirteen different ports, including Portsmouth, announced the ministry of Defense.