Argentina

Friday, January 3rd 2014 - 23:34 UTC
Cristina Fernandez administration launches yet another price control program

Argentina's government formally launched on Friday its latest price control program as double-digit inflation sets the stage for tense annual wage talks in coming months. The one-year program sets prices on 194 supermarket items including staples like milk, meat and pasta as well as discretionary items such as beer and ice cream.
Friday, January 3rd 2014 - 18:25 UTC
Israel has eliminated most of terrorists involved in deadly attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina

Israel has killed most of the terrorists who perpetrated deadly attacks on its embassy and a Jewish community center in Argentina in the 1990s, Israel's former Ambassador to Argentina Yitzhak Aviran told the Spanish-language Jewish news agency Agencia Judia de Noticias on Thursday.
Friday, January 3rd 2014 - 05:56 UTC
Falklands' war Regan/Thatcher fake tape had CIA and MI6 in disarray for months

A fake tape of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher arguing over the Falklands War had the British secret services scrambling to identify the culprits, archive files released Friday showed. The tape, supposedly a telephone recording of then US president Reagan and the British prime minister, was anonymously sent to several Dutch newspapers during the 1983 UK general election.
Friday, January 3rd 2014 - 05:36 UTC
Mujica admits relation with Argentina is “at a standstill”: all depends on Cristina

President José Mujica admitted that Uruguay's relationship with Argentina is “at a standstill”, and suggested that improving relations was up to counterpart Cristina Fernández and her actions, since “I'm always open to dialogue”.
Friday, January 3rd 2014 - 00:24 UTC
Record breaking Pope: Francis drew more than 6.6 million people to his audiences

Pope Francis drew more than 6.6 million people to his audiences, Masses and other events in Vatican City during his first year in office, figures show. The statistics cover the period from the Argentine's election in March to the end of 2013, the Vatican said.
Thursday, January 2nd 2014 - 15:35 UTC
New Year in Argentina brings: hikes in urban transport and fuel and promises of a capped basket

New Year arrived in Argentina with much needed rainfall relief, but also with a hefty increase in urban transport fares, the same with fuel prices at the pump and the promise of a list of 200 products included in a price agreement with the county’s major supermarkets and retailers.
Friday, December 27th 2013 - 05:28 UTC
Blackouts continue in Argentina while government keeps threatening power distributors

Blackouts continued in several neighborhoods of Argentina's metropolitan Buenos Aires area while protests increased including pickets in highways, attempts to set on fire power distributors offices or kidnap power companies' officers while the only resource from government has been to blame companies and threaten to take over utilities.
Friday, December 27th 2013 - 05:07 UTC
World Cup 2014: Brazil most expensive stadium has a leaking roof

Reports from stadium operators in Brazil have revealed that the most expensive of the 12 stadiums built or renovated for the 2014 FIFA World Cup has a leaking roof, less than eight months after it was finished.
Friday, December 27th 2013 - 04:58 UTC
Argentina makes its case to Forbes: 'commitment has been to treat all bondholders equally'

By Cecilia Nahón (*) - The op-ed published on October 21 entitled “Supreme Court Moves Us Closer To Holding Deadbeat Argentina Accountable” openly distorts Argentina´s recent history and the facts surrounding its debt restructuring.
Friday, December 27th 2013 - 04:52 UTC
Inflation in Argentine provinces expected to reach over 30% at the end of 2013

Consumer prices in the Argentine province of San Luis climbed 2.9% in November over October, 27.8% over December 2012 and 29.3% in the last twelve months, according to the provincial stats office. San Luis is ruled by dissidents from the ruling Peronist coalition headed by President Cristina Fernandez.