Tag: Argentina

• Monday, November 7th 2016 - 09:21 UTC

  Argentine Human Rights Secretary agrees “stronger immigration controls” necessary

  

  Argentina's Human Rights Scecretary Claudio Avruj agreed with Senator Pichetto, saying that “stronger controls” are needed. During the previous administration, people entered the country without a proper background check.

• Sunday, November 6th 2016 - 14:13 UTC

  Argentina tops list of attractive countries for UK investments

  

  So said British Deputy Foreign Minister Alan Duncan on Friday during the Business Networking Day, a gathering organized by the Argentine-British Chamber of Commerce at the Embassy in London.

• Saturday, November 5th 2016 - 10:17 UTC

  Ezeiza airport shortlisted for 'domestic' gateway into the U.S.

  

  Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport was shortlisted by the Department of Homeland Security of the United States along with ten other terminals in the world to be of “assessed preference” in the preclearance program.

• Saturday, November 5th 2016 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentina's 2017 inflation expected to reach 19.7%, reveals Central bank poll

  

  Argentina's consumer prices will rise by 19.7% in 2017, according to a central bank poll of 56 economists published this week, a slight drop from median expectations in last month's survey but still higher than the central bank's target.

• Saturday, November 5th 2016 - 03:50 UTC

  Opposition leaders Boudou, Esteche and D'Elia head march onto Plaza de Mayo

  

  Former Argentine Vicepresident Amado Boudou and other Kirchnerite leaders took centre stage on Friday as unions marched onto Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to demand the resumption of collective bargaining talks and a year-end bonus, “If they do not listen, there will be a strike”

• Friday, November 4th 2016 - 07:23 UTC

  Bank loans in Argentina expected to double over the next three years

  

  Banco Santander Rio CEO Enrique Cristofani also believes the economy will grow next year by 4% in a context that offers great opportunities to the country.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 08:21 UTC

  Identification of Argentine soldiers' remains in Falklands: Geneva meeting in December

  

  Argentine and British diplomats will be meeting next 10 December in Geneva with the Red Cross to advance in the identification of the remains of 123 Argentine combatants buried at Darwin cemetery in the Falkland islands since 1982.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 08:05 UTC

  European lawmakers in Argentina to boost EU/Mercosur trade talks

  

  A European Union parliament delegation of fourteen lawmakers is in Buenos Aires to prop Mercosur/EU trade talks, and even admitting there has been advances, and prospects are encouraging, they also acknowledged that many objections from both sides persist.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 07:25 UTC

  Uruguayan pulp mill passes pollution tests - Gualeguaychú not quite

  

  An Argentine-Uruguayan commission took 50 samples of effluent from the pulp mill off Fray Bentos and as many in the Gualeguaychú mouth of the river in Entre Rios. Botnia passes test. The reports from the samples collected on the Argetine side recorded more polluting than those found off Fray Bentos. The plant's formal name is “Orion” but is widely known for its original Finnish name Botnia.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 12:24 UTC

  Argentine court appraising Cristina Fernandez properties in Rio Gallegos

  

  Argentine justice started to value properties belonging to former president Cristina Fernandez at her home province of Santa Cruz in the framework of an investigation into a society, Los Sauces, of which she is a shareholder. “We are rating the properties; we want to know the exact value of them”, said prosecutor Carlos Rivolo who has the case.