Tag: Argentina

• Monday, June 1st 2015 - 07:25 UTC

  Argentine oil-crushing industry unions back to work after 26-day strike

  

  Argentine oil crushing industry workers reached over the weekend a much disputed salary agreement, ending a 26 day strike, and hopefully resuming activities which have paralyzed the Rosario cereals and oilseeds stock market and forced a queue of over 140 vessels and barges along the Paraná river.

• Monday, June 1st 2015 - 06:36 UTC

  Falklands born Alejandro Betts entitled to vote in coming Argentine elections

  

  For the first time a man born in the Falkland Islands, will be voting in the coming Argentine elections, according to reports in the Buenos Aires media. The man is Alejandro Betts, 58, who received his Argentine ID at a ceremony in the Argentine embassy before United Nations, and will thus be eligible to cast a ballot in the coming Tierra del Fuego provincial and municipal elections.

• Saturday, May 30th 2015 - 09:15 UTC

  Interpol and Argentine police raid sports media office linked to FIFA scandal

  

  Interpol and Argentine federal police officers conducted a raid at the San Telmo offices of Torneos y Competencias, the sports media company directed by Alejandro Burzaco, one of the three Argentine citizens indicted by the US in the corruption scheme that involves FIFA.

• Saturday, May 30th 2015 - 09:01 UTC

  Ford announces investments to boost car production in Argentina

  

  Ford Argentina announced investments in the country for some 220 million dollars following a meeting between President Cristina Fernández and local and regional executives from the US corporation.

• Saturday, May 30th 2015 - 01:39 UTC

  Interpol after Argentine promoters linked to FIFA corruption case

  

  Argentine judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi has approved the arrest of three Argentine business leaders named in a corruption scandal engulfing world football and facing US extradition requests, though he acknowledged he did not know if they were in the country. The businessmen were considered fugitives from justice on Thursday after Interpol was unable to locate them at their residences.

• Friday, May 29th 2015 - 09:05 UTC

  Oil crushers strike in Argentina on 25th day; 100 vessels delayed waiting to load

  

  The head of an Argentine soy crushers' union expressed optimism on Thursday that a salary agreement was near and would end the strike, which has affected the key Rosario soy market.

• Thursday, May 28th 2015 - 05:40 UTC

  US formalizes extradition request of three Argentines allegedly involved in FIFA investigation

  

  Argentina's foreign ministry confirmed late Wednesday that United States had officially requested the extradition of three Argentine citizens allegedly involved in the US Justice Department investigation into FIFA corrupt dealings.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2015 - 04:59 UTC

  Argentine economic activity up 2% in March, but industrial production down

  

  Good and bad news for Argentina's economy: the latest figures from the National Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC) reveal that economic activity increased 2% percent in March, compared to the same month last year, but industrial production recorded its 21st negative consecutive month in April.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2015 - 20:07 UTC

  Argentine Church calls for responsible leadership and end to political bickering

  

  The long influential shadow of Buenos Aires born Pope Francis was again present on Monday 25 May at two significant religious and official ceremonies, calling for responsible leadership and an end to political bickering.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2015 - 07:04 UTC

  CFK anticipates to huge rally that Kirchnerism will continue after December

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (CFK) demanded that the “current twelve year transformation process of Argentina” and Peronism continue in office and underlined that this objective does not depend on one person, but on the people's voting and defending all that was conquered in the last twelve years.