Tag: Argentina

• Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 07:24 UTC

  Over half of Argentina households belong to the middle class; only second to Uruguay

  

  Argentina is the Latin American country where the middle class has grown the most in ten years, doubling in size, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center in the United States.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 06:40 UTC

  Scioli meets Raul Castro in Havana and praises political and economic opening of Cuba

  

  Argentina's presidential hopeful and Buenos Aires governor Daniel Scioli was received on Wednesday by President of Cuba Raul Castro for an official audience in Havana, making the incumbent candidate the first foreign politician to meet the head of state since the normalising of relations with the United States.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 06:21 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez' candidates for October's general elections have a clear lead

  

  Argentina's current government presidential ticket for October's ballot, Daniel Scioli and Carlos Zannini has a solid lead of 18 points over its main competitor, the PRO party with hopefuls Mauricio Macri and Gabriela Michetti, according to the latest public opinion poll released by Aresco.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 05:41 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas special session at Aladi's offices in Montevideo

  

  The Latin American Integration Association, Aladi, with main offices in Montevideo, will be holding on Thursday an extraordinary meeting on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands question in the framework of the recent Day of Affirmation of Argentine rights over the South Atlantic Islands (June 10), and the fiftieth anniversary of UN Assembly Resolution 2065, which called on Argentina and UK to dialogue and find a solution to the dispute.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2015 - 06:37 UTC

  Dollar in Argentina breaks 15-Peso threshold; pro-business candidate poor showing scares markets

  

  The US dollar kept climbing in Argentina and ended trading on Tuesday above the 15 Pesos threshold after having advanced 30 cents on Monday and 54 cents today. Sunday's electoral result in the City of Buenos Aires where the pro-business PRO party just managed to scrape by with victory, has triggered growing nervousness and speculation among savers and traders.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2015 - 05:24 UTC

  Maximo Kirchner and Macri clash over Sunday's election in Buenos Aires

  

  Cristina Fernandez son, Maximo Kirchner, lawmaker candidate for the Victory Front took time on Monday to comment on presidential hopeful Mauricio Macri’s Sunday speech, after his candidate Horacio Rodriguez Larreta won in the Buenos Aires City’s runoff by a much closer margin than expected.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2015 - 04:28 UTC

  Falklands' oil industry: Mercosur special declaration in support of Argentina's Malvinas dispute

  

  The latest Mercosur summit, held last week in Brazil included a special statement, --besides the main regular declaration with 69 articles--, blasting the UK for violating international law and Argentine domestic law over the exploration of hydrocarbons “in the Argentine continental shelf in proximity of the Malvinas Islands”.

• Monday, July 20th 2015 - 05:21 UTC

  Macri's party retains Buenos Aires city but his presidential aspiration suffers a significant blow

  

  Argentina's conservative PRO party won the Buenos Aires City mayoral runoff on Sunday, clinging to its stronghold for a third consecutive term ahead of presidential elections in October, but by a smaller-than-expected margin. Horacio Rodríguez Larreta won 51.6% of ballots cast while his opponent Martin Lousteau picked up 48.4%. Public opinion polls anticipated a ten points difference.

• Saturday, July 18th 2015 - 09:04 UTC

  Buenos Aires City runoff expected to confirm Rodriguez Larreta as next government chief

  

  The incumbent candidate for government chief of Buenos Aires City, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, was at least fifteen points ahead of his challenger in Sunday's runoff, according to the latest public opinion polls before the 48 hours ban on all campaigning.

• Saturday, July 18th 2015 - 08:48 UTC

  Judge removal from Cristina Fernandez case triggers more suspicions

  

  “If they say I committed suicide, look for the murderer. It's not my style, investigate”, said ironically Argentine judge Claudio Bonadio when he was asked how he felt after having been removed from the case looking into alleged money laundering and tax elusion in one of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner family businesses in the hotel industry, Hotesur.