Tag: Argentina

• Friday, April 19th 2013 - 05:46 UTC

  Argentina begins Washington round of contacts ahead of IMF-WB spring meeting

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Hernán Lorenzino is in Washington ready to start his official activities in the margins of the 2013 International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring meeting.

• Friday, April 19th 2013 - 05:33 UTC

  Argentine Catholic Church criticism of judicial reform triggers ironic statements from Senator

  

  The Cristina Fernandez administration renewed relations with the Catholic Church, since the naming of Cardinal Bergoglio from Buenos Aires Pope Francis could be facing their first challenge because of the controversial judicial reform the Argentine president is pushing through congress.

• Friday, April 19th 2013 - 05:03 UTC

  Two million Argentines across the country join the biggest anti-government protest in years

  

  Almost two million Argentines marched on Thursday evening across the country’s cities and towns in one of the biggest anti-government protests in years highlighting public anger over a deteriorating economy, corruption, street crime and President Cristina Fernandez efforts to reform the media, the courts and the constitution so she can bid for a third consecutive four year mandate.

• Friday, April 19th 2013 - 03:14 UTC

  May peace prevail: Cristina and Mujica fly together to Peru on Tango 01

  

  Sooner than expected Argentine President Cristina Fernandez seems to have accepted her Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica’s apologies following his coarse words: “this old lady is worse than the one-eyed man” to refer to the Argentine leader and her late husband Nestor Kirchner.

• Friday, April 19th 2013 - 02:51 UTC

  Argentine international reserves fall below the 40bn dollars benchmark, 8% so far this year

  

  Argentina’s Central bank international reserves have fallen below the 40bn dollars benchmark, which is the lowest in six years, according to the bank’s official data. So far this year the drain has been 3.48bn dollars and 12.84bn from the record 52.6bn of January 2011.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 08:06 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez and Mujica could overcome incident at Maduro’s ceremony in Caracas

  

  Argentina and Uruguay presidents could hold an unofficial meeting next Friday in Caracas when they attend the taking office ceremony of Venezuelan president next Friday, according to Montevideo diplomatic sources.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 07:58 UTC

  Malvinas seminar in Argentina to teach education staff how to isolate the war from the sovereignty claim

  

  An estimated 1.600 teachers and education students from all over Argentina are participating in a Malvinas seminar organized by the country’s Education ministry with the main purpose of “setting aside the war issue” from the main sovereignty claim.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 07:54 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez calls on the US to recognize the Venezuelan government

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez demanded the United States “recognizes the Venezuelan government” following on Sunday’s election in which Nicolas Maduro was confirmed as president despite a very tight margin (just over 1% of ballots) and challenges by the opposition candidate.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 07:47 UTC

  A year on YPF’s seizure, Argentina’s energy challenge remains equally strong

  

  Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández takeover of YPF to pare energy imports is backfiring and threatening to narrow the country’s trade surplus needed to pay debt, according to a report from Bloomberg.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 07:35 UTC

  Argentine farmers expected to plant more wheat this coming season

  

  Argentina will plant more wheat this season than last year because of farmer-friendly adjustments to the government’s export policy and the bad luck that growers had last season with alternative crops such as barley, a key grain exchange said.