A couple from Argentina salvaged hometown honour Tuesday night by winning the stage tango category on the closing day of the World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires.
“Argentina wants to charge 49 dollars per KW of power transferred from Paraguay to Uruguay, which is five times what it charges Brazil” claims Paraguayan Vice President Federico Franco who described the pretension as “inadmissible and preposterous”.
The mystery behind the birth of lager beer has been solved. Scientists have successfully traced the origin of the popular alcoholic beverage to a type of yeast, believed to have travelled 11,000 kilometres from Patagonia, (Argentina) to Bavaria 500 years ago.
Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands is well documented, but lesser known is her continued claim to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Argentina’s Central Bank’s Governor (BCRA) Mercedes Marcó del Pont said on Thursday that the Argentine banking system “is in its best historical levels of liquidity, solvency and default rates” referring to an earlier report from Moody’s rating agency.
A free trade agreement between Israel and Argentina is set to come into effect on September 9, the Israeli Industry, Trade and Labour Ministry announced this week.
Steel giant Tenaris, a member of the Argentine group Techint, said on Wednesday that it initiated arbitration proceedings against Venezuela following the nationalization of steelmaker Matesi.
Argentina signed contracts worth 444 million dollars on Wednesday with a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin Group, Canada's top engineering firm, to extend the shelf-life of its Embalse nuclear plant.
With Argentina’s presidential election less than two months away official data is showing why President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is poised to make effective her re-election bid in October.
Argentina's trade surplus shrank 22% in July from a year earlier to 672 million dollars as import growth continued to outpace exports, the government said on Tuesday. The trade surplus totalled 861 million dollars in July 2010.