Tag: Argentina

• Tuesday, February 14th 2017 - 11:17 UTC

  Greater Buenos Aires January consumer prices rose 1.3% in January

  

  Consumer prices in greater Buenos Aires rose 1.3% in January over the previous month, Argentina's official Indec statistics agency announced, far below market expectations and in line with the central bank's annual target. January's reading was slightly above 1.2% inflation in December.

• Monday, February 13th 2017 - 16:41 UTC

  Argentina expects at least 15 million tons of wheat from the 2016/17 crop

  

  Argentine farmers are expected to harvest at least 15 million tons of wheat in the 2016/17 crop year versus 11.3 million in the previous season, Agriculture Minister Ricardo Buryaile said last week. Wheat planting in Argentina expanded dramatically when President Mauricio Macri eliminated export taxes soon after his December inauguration.

• Monday, February 13th 2017 - 10:14 UTC

  Vice-president Pence: Trump looks forward to speaking with president Macri

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri and US vice-president Mike Pence spoke last Friday on the phone and agreed that the two countries need to redouble their efforts to enhance job creation and economic growth. The vice-president also noted that president Donald Trump looks forward to speaking with president Macri.

• Monday, February 13th 2017 - 09:39 UTC

  Falkland Islanders must be recognized, says UK ambassador in Argentina

  

  UK is interested in strengthening bilateral relations with Argentina, building confidence, dialogue, leaving aside sanctions and conflicts, and when it comes to the Falklands/Malvinas and sovereignty, “we must recognize Islanders, their wishes, their lives”, indicated British ambassador in Buenos Aires Mark Kent in an interview with Martin Dinatale, political and diplomatic analyst from La Nacion.

• Monday, February 13th 2017 - 09:07 UTC

  Falklands: Red Cross advance team collects information for forensic team

  

  The International Red Cross mission which spent nine days in the Falklands gathering information and finalizing plans for the team that will identify Argentine unknown soldiers buried in the Darwin cemetery sometime in June/July, have left the Islands.

• Saturday, February 11th 2017 - 10:40 UTC

  Malcorra hopes to meet Tillerson and arrange a Trump/Macri summit

  

  Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra said that she will be meeting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and expects to advance in arranging a meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Mauricio Macri, as had been agreed when the two spoke on the phone in late November.

• Saturday, February 11th 2017 - 07:36 UTC

  Mercosur meeting in March to address internal tariffs and Mexico

  

  Mercosur foreign ministers will be meeting next March 9 in Buenos Aires in the framework of Argentina's pro tempore chair and following on the Argentine/Brazilian presidents recent meeting when it was decided to give the group a new thrust taking advantage of the new world scenario.

• Thursday, February 9th 2017 - 07:16 UTC

  Macri to launch “Patagonia Project” for southern Argentina provinces

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri is scheduled to launch on Thursday the much expected “Patagonia Project”, a massive ambitious development program for the southern provinces similar to the “Belgrano Plan” which was recently launched for the northern provinces.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2017 - 08:02 UTC

  Macri and Temer agree to open Mercosur and to closer ties with Mexico

  

  The leaders of Brazil and Argentina said on Tuesday they would pursue closer ties with Mexico and other Latin American nations alarmed by U.S. President Donald Trump's promises to tear apart trade deals and build a wall in the Mexican border to protect American jobs.

• Tuesday, February 7th 2017 - 07:02 UTC

  Malvinas sovereignty: UK officials and Parliament members were willing to listen to Argentina's claim

  

  British officials and members of Parliament were “more understanding and willing to listen to Argentina's claim over the Malvinas Islands” according to congress member Margarita Stolbizer who recently visited London and Scotland as part of a delegation of Argentine lawmakers.