Argentina

• 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.

• Saturday, September 14th 2013 - 01:27 UTC

  Energy deficit is Argentina has become dramatic, admits YPF CEO Galuccio

  

  Argentina’s oil and gas corporation YPF CEO Miguel Galuccio admitted that the ‘energy deficit’ of Argentina has become a serious challenge since the country has started to face a serious shortage of light oil for refining.

• Friday, September 13th 2013 - 20:50 UTC

  Argentina formally requests US Supreme Court to review Appeals court favoring holdout hedge funds

  

  Argentina’s legal representation in Washington DC yesterday sent a petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States’ Supreme Court, requesting Justices to accept its appeal against the Second Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling in favour of holdout hedge funds, which are demanding full repayment for bonds left unpaid by Argentina’s record-breaking 2002 default.

• Friday, September 13th 2013 - 20:36 UTC

  Falklands: despite MPs criticisms, “UK government wants full bilateral relationship with Argentina”

  

  A British Conservative Member of Parliament Henry Smith labeled Argentine president Cristina Fernandez as ‘disgraceful’ for how she has treated the people of the Falkland Islands and also claimed she stopped an Argentine prosecutor from testifying before the US congress on the Buenos Aires 1994 bombing of an Israelite mutual association in order to protect a growing alliance with Iran.

• Friday, September 13th 2013 - 02:29 UTC

  Aerolineas Argentinas admits to annual losses of 250 million dollars

  

  Argentina’s flag carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas will have this year an operational deficit of 250 million dollars, approximately 12% of sales, but a sharp decrease from the 640 million loss last year, said CEO Mariano Recalde addressing Senate Budget, Finance, Infrastructure, Housing and Transport committees.

• Friday, September 13th 2013 - 02:16 UTC

  Argentina confirms that the Malvinas question has become a Latinamerican strategy issue

  

  Javier Figueroa head of the Malvinas Desk at the Argentine Foreign ministry said that it is strategic to make the “Malvinas question” a Latinamerican issue. Figueroa made the statement during a meeting of Central America and Caribbean Malvinas Solidarity groups which opened Thursday in Havana.