Argentina

• Thursday, December 27th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  Xmas rainstorms and soggy soil delaying soy and corn planting in Argentina

  

  Christmas rainstorms across Argentina further delayed soy and corn planting, keeping markets guessing about whether the grains powerhouse can produce enough this season to help bring high-flying global food prices down to earth.

• Thursday, December 27th 2012 - 05:39 UTC

  Timerman meets with Jewish community to report on talks with Iran

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman met with the relatives of victims of the Buenos Aires 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing to update them on negotiations with Iran. The update came three months after Timerman's first public meeting with his Iranian counterpart.

• Thursday, December 27th 2012 - 02:47 UTC

  Argentine government blasts farmers’ strike who are considering further actions

  

  Argentine Agriculture and Livestock Minister Norberto Yauhar accused farmers who organized what proved to be a very effective 24 hours livestock trading strike on Wednesday, of responding to ‘political interests’. The farmers’ Liaison Board said they are considering extending the protest to other economic activities.

• Thursday, December 27th 2012 - 02:38 UTC

  “Uruguay needs leaders in government, not demagogues” says transport businessman

  

  The country “needs leaders in government, not demagogues” said Juan Carlos López Mena a leading businessman of Uruguay’s tourism and transport industry who is also investing heavily in agriculture and an incipient regional airline.

• Thursday, December 27th 2012 - 02:24 UTC

  Argentine Coast Guard arrests two Chinese jiggers off Puerto Madryn

  

  The Argentine Coast Guard arrested on Christmas after fining some intimidatory shots, two Chinese flagged jiggers illegally fishing in Argentina’s South Atlantic Economic Exclusive Zone off the Chubut province coast, according to an official report released Wednesday.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2012 - 06:35 UTC

  Life sentence for Argentine civilian minister who worked with the military dictatorship

  

  An Argentine federal court handed down life sentences on Dec. 19 to former Buenos Aires province interior minister Jaime Smart (1976-1979), former Buenos Aires province police investigations director Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz and 14 former police and military personnel for genocide and crimes against humanity in the cases of 280 people detained during the 1976-1983 “dirty war” against suspected leftists.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2012 - 06:27 UTC

  Argentine economy forecast to expand 4.6% in 2013, but dollar clamp remains

  

  Argentina's economy is seen growing 4.6% next year, improving after drought and a slowdown in top trading partner Brazil took a toll in 2012, the central bank president said in an interview published on Sunday. She also advanced that the so called ‘dollar clamp’ or strict restrictions on the purchase of foreign currency remain.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2012 - 06:16 UTC

  UK Parliament addresses disruption of Falklands’ shipping and tourism by Argentina

  

  The disruption of shipping and tourism in Argentina and the Falkland Islands reached the British Parliament and was addressed by Foreign Office officials who said the UK regrets the Argentine attitude but is also holding talks with international partners that share concerns about illegitimate interferences, and with the cruise industry.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2012 - 06:03 UTC

  YPF and PDVSA will explore Malvinas continental shelf for oil, says Pagina 12

  

  According to reports in the Argentine media, the nationalized Argentine oil company YPF, formerly owned by Spain's Repsol, will be teaming up with Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA to explore the continental shelf around the Falkland/Malvinas Islands for oil.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2012 - 22:22 UTC

  Preaching resentment and confrontation led to extended rioting in Argentina, says leading political analyst

  

  Argentina has lost its limits and references, and this was dramatically expressed these last few days says Joaquin Morales Solá, one of the country’s most respected political analysts, when the looting and rioting extended from Resistencia to the north next to Paraguay, to Bariloche in Patagonia.