Argentina

• Saturday, July 20th 2013 - 06:11 UTC

  Argentina’s economic activity picks up 7.8% in May and 4.1% in first five months

  

  Argentina's economic activity jumped 7.8% in May from a year earlier, according to the country’s questioned stats office, Indec. President Cristina Fernandez had anticipated the news earlier in the week in a televised speech.

• Saturday, July 20th 2013 - 06:03 UTC

  Argentina/hedge funds dispute: US will not file ‘uninvited’ brief to Supreme Court

  

  The Barack Obama administration won’t file a brief next week urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Argentina’s appeal in a clash with implications for tens of billions of dollars in defaulted debt, according to a Justice Department spokesman.

• Saturday, July 20th 2013 - 05:46 UTC

  Money exchange controls limit Argentines from travelling to Brazil to greet Pope Francis

  

  Despite the pope is Argentine and on Monday he will be making his first pastoral trip overseas to Brazil, Argentine government strict currency controls are making it difficult for prospective pilgrims to travel. An estimated 60.000 Argentines are expected to travel to Rio do Janeiro for the grand event.

• Friday, July 19th 2013 - 06:34 UTC

  Kirchnerite candidates in four main districts ahead of mid term election trail behind

  

  The latest round of public opinion polls for the coming mid term elections next October in Argentina don’t fare well for President Cristina Fernandez particularly in the country’s four main electoral circumscriptions, Buenos Aires province, Buenos Aires City, Santa Fe and Cordoba.

• Friday, July 19th 2013 - 06:22 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community criticizes government on 19th anniversary of terrorist attack

  

  Argentine Jewish leaders harshly criticized their government on Thursday the 19th anniversary of the country’s deadliest terror attack, for dealing with Iran in ways they fear will only guarantee more impunity for those responsible.

• Thursday, July 18th 2013 - 09:08 UTC

  President-elect demands rule of the law before Paraguay returns as active Mercosur member

  

  Paraguayan president elect Horacio Cartes confirmed that his government will insist in its position regarding Mercosur, which expects Paraguay to return as full active member following the inauguration ceremony 15 August.

• Thursday, July 18th 2013 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentina to apply ‘neutral Spanish’ dubbing to foreign films, television series and programs

  

  The Argentine government has put into practice the 'Dubbing Law', which establishes the obligation to dub films, foreign television series, advertisements and program announcements into neutral Spanish.

• Thursday, July 18th 2013 - 08:45 UTC

  Argentina 2012/2013 crop expected to reach a record 105 million tons says Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina’s 2012/2013 grain and oilseed crop reached a record 105 million tons, announced President Cristina Fernandez underlining the excellent performance of the maize harvest and yields.

• Thursday, July 18th 2013 - 08:35 UTC

  IMF sides with Argentina in dispute with hedge funds holding defaulted bonds

  

  In an unprecedented move, the International Monetary Fund plans to ask the US Supreme Court to review Argentina's case in a decade-old legal battle with holdout creditors, because of the implications it could have on sovereign debt restructurings.

• Wednesday, July 17th 2013 - 07:41 UTC

  Falklands: Timerman accuses Clarin of sponsoring the referendum and Foreign Office strategy

  

  Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman in a piece published in the pro-government Pagina 12 accused Buenos Aires daily Clarin of silencing, distorting, hiding and even lying about events in Argentina and particularly regarding the Malvinas colonial issue and in the March referendum ‘of playing to the Foreign Office strategy’.