Tag: Argentina

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 02:56 UTC

  Argentine government promises even closer industry-State articulation

  

  Planning Minister, Julio De Vido said that “Argentina is again aiming at the long term and this is only possible due to the numerous productive projects” in the country and the close articulation between the State and industry.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 02:53 UTC

  Argentine minister tells industry to invest 30bn dollars annual to ensure 7% growth

  

  Argentine Industry Minister, Débora Giorgi, came on stage Tuesday at the Industrial Union’s annual conference to defend the “Kirchnerite economic model”, and warned that in order to keep an average growth of 7% as asked by businessmen, they would have to increase their annual investments to 30 billion dollars.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 23:03 UTC

  Uruguay hopeful it can reach a tax-data exchange agreement with Argentina

  

  “Negotiations are on the right track” and should be concluded in coming months, said Uruguayan sources adding that one of the current difficulties is what will happen with the Argentine negotiating team, following December 10 when re-elected President Cristina Fernandez takes office for her second consecutive four year mandate.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 17:51 UTC

  Oil might lubricate the process to real dialogue in the South Atlantic

  

  The second of a planned series of extended political articles written exclusively for the Penguin News web site by Deputy Editor John Fowler.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 16:03 UTC

  Air traffic in Argentina and Uruguay delayed because of volcanic ash

  

  Commercial flights in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay were cancelled or reprogrammed Tuesday morning because of disruptions caused by the hovering volcanic ash being blown from the Chilean Puyehue which erupted five months ago.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 07:29 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez admits “the model has distortions which must be corrected”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez promised on Monday to continue defending with ‘tooth and nails’ the powerful wheel of domestic consumption that has boosted the current economic model but also admitted the existence of ‘distortions which must be corrected’.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 07:19 UTC

  Argentine industry supports subsidy-elimination policy, but calls for gradualism

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez received strong support from the industrial sector for her latest policy of eliminating subsidies which are widely extended in the economy, but manufacturers also called for prudence and gradualism.

• Monday, November 21st 2011 - 15:31 UTC

  A third of metropolitan Buenos Aires live below poverty line claims Catholic Church

  

  Over a third of metropolitan Buenos Aires, 34.9%, live below the poverty line which is equivalent to 4.4 million people, more than double the official Argentine government estimate, according to a paper from the Argentine Catholic University, UCA, and the local Caritas chapter from the Catholic Church.

• Monday, November 21st 2011 - 07:10 UTC

  Argentina forecasts 49.5 million tons of soybeans 12 million tons of wheat

  

  Argentina's 2011-12 soybean area will likely rise 0.6% on the year to 19 million hectares, the Agriculture Ministry said in its weekly crop report. The forecast is the first from the ministry for soybeans, the country's top crop and export.

• Saturday, November 19th 2011 - 06:09 UTC

  Argentina sponsors a free movement of peoples’ area in Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego

  

  Argentina announced its full support to make the tip of the South American continent ‘a free movement of peoples’ area’ that would include Chile’s Magallanes region in the extreme south of the country and Tierra del Fuego, shared by the neighbouring countries.