Argentina

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 07:05 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez on the trail campaign ahead of the October mid-term election

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández was again on the campaign trail on Tuesday participating in several inaugurations and political rallies at the province of Buenos Aires in support of her candidate running for Congress in October’s mid term ballot, Martin Insurralde.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 06:54 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Argentina recalls its major UN diplomatic success in 1964/65

  

  Tierra del Fuego media recalled that on 17 September 1964 a United Nations sub-committee unanimously recommended that the “Malvinas case” be included among issues referred to Decolonisation and thus admits ‘the existence of sovereignty dispute over the Falklands and other South Atlantic islands’.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 07:10 UTC

  Argentina ratifies interest in Mercosur, but Brazil wants negotiations now

  

  The government of President Cristina Fernandez told the business community on Monday that Argentina has an interest in a ‘balanced’ negotiation between Mercosur and the European Union to reach a political, association and trade agreement. However the timetable approach of Argentina does not seem to fit with the rest of Mercosur, mainly Brazil.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 06:59 UTC

  Tax incentives in Argentina top bolster the domestic software industry

  

  Argentina is creating new tax incentives to bolster a domestic software industry that is expected to generate sales of 3.75 billion dollars this year, including 900 million in exports. The incentives take effect this week and are to remain in place through the end of 2019.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 06:40 UTC

  FAO praises Argentina’s law on rural land as an example for Latam countries

  

  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) praised Argentina’s Law on Rural Lands (Ley de Tierras Rurales), stating that the measure could serve as an example for the region. FAO has invited Argentine representatives to expound their experience with the law at a workshop to be staged next week in the Colombian capital of Bogotá.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:25 UTC

  Argentine official inflation 0.8% and 6.6% in eight months despite price agreements

  

  Argentina's Consumer Price Index (IPC) was of 0.8% in August, according to the INDEC statistics bureau, totalling 6.6% this year. Price hikes were mainly seen in food and beverage, household equipment and maintenance sectors. Meanwhile, entertainment costs went down in August.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:19 UTC

  Cartes on a two-day visit to Pacific Alliance member Chile to promote trade and investments

  

  Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes begins on Monday a two-day visit to Chile where he is scheduled to meet his peer Sebastián Piñera and hold a round of talks with business people inviting them to invest in Paraguay. At the end of the month Cartes will be flying to Brasilia to meet President Dilma Rousseff.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 20:22 UTC

  Brazil forecasted to become the leading country in soybean production

  

  Brazil is to top the world soybean production league for the first time, thanks to the incentive to farmers provided from resilient prices and a weak Real, overtaking the US, whose hopes have been dented by drought.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 18:37 UTC

  OAS chief and Pope Francis talk drugs, Chile’s coup and Latam’s coming challenges

  

  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, was received in a private audience by Pope Francis in Vatican City and by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, in the framework of a visit to Rome at the invitation of the Italianaeuropei to give a lecture during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the military coup in Chile.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 18:17 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina to coordinate cyber defense to address espionage challenge

  

  Argentine Defence Minister Agustín Rossi and his Brazilian counterpart Celso Amorim issued a joint statement with cyber-defence taking the centre stage of the bilateral agenda, during the official ceremony at the Libertador building, seat of the Defence ministry in Buenos Aires.