Argentina

Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 09:21 UTC
Argentina unable to lower crude imports depite Minister Aranguren's preferences

Despite Energy Minister Juan José Aranguren's plans, Argentina will end up importing in 2016 almost as much crude as in 2015. Freighters from Nigeria and Angola reported to be on their way with some 3 million barrels.
Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 09:10 UTC
Argentina's central bank cuts benchmark rate despite Peso's depreciation

Argentina's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate for the second time in two weeks in a surprise move amid market expectations it would hold steady after a high inflation reading and U.S. elections last week.
Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 08:36 UTC
Malcorra taunted in Congress over the UK/Argentina statement and South Atlantic chapter

A leading ally of President Mauricio Macri's precarious coalition in Congress and chair of the Lower House Foreign Affairs committee, held another special session to address the September UK/Argentina Joint Statement, which she argues is not an “accord or treaty”, but nevertheless strongly questions the South Atlantic chapter which calls for lifting economic sanctions on Falklands' trade, fisheries, connectivity and oil development.
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 10:01 UTC
Cristina Fernandez furious with Macri for the accusations against her mother

Argentine ex president Cristina Fernandez strongly defended her mother Ofelia Wilhelm who has been accused by the federal justice of fraud and pointed to president Mauricio Macri for the official investigation warning that “no matter how many cases are dumped on me, the fact is people don't make enough money to reach the end of the month”.
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:27 UTC
Argentina plans to cull 100.000 beavers devastating Tierra del Fuego woodlands

Argentina will cull 100,000 beavers which are devastating southern woodlands by gnawing down huge trees, officials said this week. The plague of big-toothed rodents has struck in the Tierra del Fuego province, a far southern region known as “the End of the World.”
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:19 UTC
Argentina's main network Telefe with 26,8m subscribers sold to Viacom for US$345m

Viacom Inc, the owner of Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and MTV, said on Tuesday it had bought Argentine broadcaster Television Federal SA (Telefe) from telecom carrier Telefonica SAfor US$345 million in cash. The deal to buy the Spanish-language network and content producer is part of Viacom's plan to boost its presence in Argentina and Latin America.
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 08:55 UTC
Brazil and Argentina crop and yield estimates on the increase

Brazil and Argentina production estimates are going up, but hailstorms ruined soybean and corn crops in Argentina’s Santa Fe Province. However, La Niña is forecast to be relatively mild this year, according to NOAA forecasters.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:25 UTC
Macri, Trump bound for closest relationship ever after phone call

Argentine President Mauricio Macri spoke with US President-elect Donald Trump, who invited him to visit him in Washington next year. “Argentina is a great country, and we will have the closest relationship between our countries in history,” Trump reportedly said.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:12 UTC
It stays in the family: CFK's mother involved in irregularities

Ofelia Wilhelm, mother of former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, is under judicial investigation for alleged irregularities worth millions of pesos to a firm of which she was a partner.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 09:55 UTC
Conference in Buenos Aires: Snowden fears domestic intelligence will spread in US under Trump

Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said on Monday, that Donald Trump's election may increase the intrusiveness of domestic intelligence gathering and warned that the democratic checks and balances were losing ground to authoritarianism.