Argentina

• Saturday, November 5th 2016 - 03:50 UTC

  Opposition leaders Boudou, Esteche and D'Elia head march onto Plaza de Mayo

  

  Former Argentine Vicepresident Amado Boudou and other Kirchnerite leaders took centre stage on Friday as unions marched onto Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to demand the resumption of collective bargaining talks and a year-end bonus, “If they do not listen, there will be a strike”

• Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 08:21 UTC

  Identification of Argentine soldiers' remains in Falklands: Geneva meeting in December

  

  Argentine and British diplomats will be meeting next 10 December in Geneva with the Red Cross to advance in the identification of the remains of 123 Argentine combatants buried at Darwin cemetery in the Falkland islands since 1982.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 08:05 UTC

  European lawmakers in Argentina to boost EU/Mercosur trade talks

  

  A European Union parliament delegation of fourteen lawmakers is in Buenos Aires to prop Mercosur/EU trade talks, and even admitting there has been advances, and prospects are encouraging, they also acknowledged that many objections from both sides persist.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 07:43 UTC

  Chief Kirchnerite Senator calls for an end on naivety regarding immigration

  

  Miguel Angel Pichetto, chairman of the Victory Front (FPV) in the Upper House, said Wednesday that Argentina has always worked “as a social adjustment tool for crime in Bolivia and Peru.”“How much misery can Argentina put up with by receiving poor immigrants?” Pichetto said in a TV interview.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 07:25 UTC

  Uruguayan pulp mill passes pollution tests - Gualeguaychú not quite

  

  An Argentine-Uruguayan commission took 50 samples of effluent from the pulp mill off Fray Bentos and as many in the Gualeguaychú mouth of the river in Entre Rios. Botnia passes test. The reports from the samples collected on the Argetine side recorded more polluting than those found off Fray Bentos. The plant's formal name is “Orion” but is widely known for its original Finnish name Botnia.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 12:24 UTC

  Argentine court appraising Cristina Fernandez properties in Rio Gallegos

  

  Argentine justice started to value properties belonging to former president Cristina Fernandez at her home province of Santa Cruz in the framework of an investigation into a society, Los Sauces, of which she is a shareholder. “We are rating the properties; we want to know the exact value of them”, said prosecutor Carlos Rivolo who has the case.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 10:35 UTC

  Argentina negotiates oil worker contracts in effort to woo investment

  

  Argentina's government is negotiating more flexible oil workers' contracts to woo investors to the Vaca Muerta shale fields and overcome an energy deficit.High labour costs are thought to be the primary obstacle to investment in the country's oil and gas sector, and negotiations are politically sensitive in a country with an influential labour movement, meaning some changes are off the table.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2016 - 18:36 UTC

  Argentina invests heavily in major dry bulk and vegetable oils port terminal

  

  Bunge and Aceitera General Deheza S.A. (AGD) announced they will jointly invest US$100 million in Puerto General San Martin’s T6 industrial complex and port terminal. Puerto General San Martin is an inland port in Argentina that sits on the Paraná River.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2016 - 08:11 UTC

  Argentina 2016/17 wheat production estimated at 14.4m tons and 8m tons exports

  

  Argentina’s wheat production is estimated at 14.4 million tons in 2016-17 and total exports are estimated at 8.03 million tons, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Services (FAS) said in its latest report. The main market is expected to be Brazil, the historic, natural market for Argentine wheat and flour.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2016 - 07:30 UTC

  CFK says she is a victim of political harassment - equals her case to Lula's

  

  The former Argentine president said she is no friends with entrepreneur Lazaro Baez, who was awarded around 80 percent of all public works in the province of Santa Cruz when governed by her late husband and eventually president Nestor Kirchner.