Argentina

Monday, May 27th 2013 - 05:16 UTC
CFK calls for ‘empowerment of the people’ and another ten years of Kirchnerism

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd Saturday night celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began in 2003. Her voice breaking, she called it a victorious decade, “won not by a government but by the people” and called for “the empowerment of the people” to defend what has been achieved in the ‘won decade’.
Monday, May 27th 2013 - 05:00 UTC
Argentina’s industrial production up in April, but down in four months of 2013

Argentina's April industrial production rose 1.7% over the same month a year earlier with a big jump in automobile output and more modest gains in the production of building materials, government data showed on Friday.
Monday, May 27th 2013 - 01:49 UTC
Paraguay demands respect from Mercosur, “if not leave us as we are”

The Argentine ambassador to Uruguay, Dante Dovena, assured that authorities are “working intensely” in preparations for the next Mercosur summit scheduled to take place on June 28th in Montevideo. However news form Paraguay doesn’t indicate the same optimism and are demanding respect for ‘the country’s dignity and rule of the law”.
Saturday, May 25th 2013 - 05:45 UTC
All ready for the massive ‘decade won’ celebration of ten years of Kirchnerite rule

All is ready for the massive ‘decade won’ celebration that President Cristina Fernández plans to hold on Saturday May 25 to commemorate the ten years since her late husband Nestor Kirchner first took office, but which must also be interpreted as a rally in support of her administration battered by inflation, a slowing economy, political battles and growing claims of rampant corruption.
Saturday, May 25th 2013 - 05:34 UTC
Falkland Islands elected lawmaker will attend C24 regional seminar in Ecuador

Falkland Islands elected lawmaker Mike Summers will attend next week the Caribbean Regional Seminar of the Special Committee on Decolonization which is to be held in Quito, Ecuador in anticipation of the main C24 annual meeting in New York.
Friday, May 24th 2013 - 07:10 UTC
As the US before IMF lines up behind Argentina in the litigation with hedge funds

For the first time since the litigation of hedge funds against Argentina the International Monetary Fund warned about the ‘risks’ which would entail ratifying Judge Thomas Griesa ruling condemning Argentina to pay over a billion dollars plus interests to the so called ‘vulture funds’.
Friday, May 24th 2013 - 07:05 UTC
Argentina raids factory of US investor head of a hedge fund litigating defaulted sovereign bonds

Argentine authorities investigating alleged tax and currency exchange fraud searched this week the factory of a U.S. investor who is among litigants seeking hundreds of millions over Argentina's 2001 default.
Friday, May 24th 2013 - 06:55 UTC
Former Ford executives charged in Argentina for human rights crimes

Three former Ford Motor Co. executives have been charged with crimes against humanity in Argentina for allegedly targeting union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.
Friday, May 24th 2013 - 06:51 UTC
Argentina’s trade surplus shrank 38% in April as imports soar 32%

Argentina's trade surplus shrank 38% in April from a year earlier to 1.15bn, revealed the national statistics institute Indec, indicating the government has significantly loosened restrictions on imports. A year ago the surplus was 1.85bn dollars.
Friday, May 24th 2013 - 06:46 UTC
Two suspects of the Buenos Aires AMIA bombing, presidential candidate in Iran

Two suspects in the bombing of the AMIA Jewish centre in Buenos Aires are candidates in Iran’s presidential election. Mohsen Rezai and Ali Akbar Velayati, who are believed to have planned the 1994 attack, were among the eight candidates approved for the June 14 election by Iran’s Guardian Council to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.