Tag: Argentina

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 01:41 UTC

  Adopted heirs of Argentine media group test negative to first DNA tests

  

  DNA tests from the adopted children of one of Argentina's richest women do not match blood samples from two families who suspect the siblings were stolen as babies from political prisoners in the 1970s, legal sources said on Monday.

• Saturday, July 9th 2011 - 07:35 UTC

  Argentina files criminal charges against consulting firm for publishing inflation data

  

  Argentina's government has filed criminal charges against the managers of an economic consulting firm, escalating its persecution of independent economists. A federal court official said Friday that a judge is evaluating the charges but has yet to decide if it is appropriate to begin investigating them.

• Saturday, July 9th 2011 - 07:03 UTC

  Fiat confirms trade disputes between Argentina and Brazil

  

  Fiat will trim some production in Brazil and Argentina for a week because of a trade spat between the South American neighbours, the Italian car maker said on Friday.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 02:48 UTC

  Argentine economy, “a frying pan with boiling oil” says IMF top official

  

  The head of the IMF Western Hemisphere Department Nicolas Eyzaguirre described the Argentine economy as “a frying pan with boiling oil”, in direct reference to a possible overheating as was recently warned by The Economist.

• Thursday, July 7th 2011 - 07:11 UTC

  UK Supreme Court rules against Argentina in defaulted sovereign bonds case

  

  A hedge fund owner of defaulted Argentine debt can try to seize government assets held in Britain as it seeks to recover the full face value of the bonds, Britain's Supreme Court said in a ruling on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 19:13 UTC

  When Falklands and the World Cup 1982 nerve-wracked the Foreign Office

  

  According to recently released document the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wanted Scotland to crash out of the 1982 World Cup in Spain in an attempt to avoid a diplomatic headache over the Falklands conflict.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 06:14 UTC

  Argentina announces aid for areas suffering from the volcanic ash cloud

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced a package of measures to mitigate the effects of ash spewing from Chile's Puyehue volcano that has upended air travel, tourism and farming in Patagonia.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Argentina/Chile agree to jointly promote receptive tourism in far distant markets

  

  Argentina and Chile have reached an understanding to join efforts in promoting receptive tourism in far distant overseas markets. The document was signed last week by Chile’s Deputy Secretary for Tourism Jacqueline Plass and the Argentine Tourism minister Enrique Meyer at the Argentina embassy in Santiago de Chile.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 05:44 UTC

  Toyota Mercosur temporarily closing plants due to lack of parts

  

  Toyota, the world's biggest automaker said Monday it will temporarily halt work at factories in Brazil and Argentina due to the lack of parts from Japan after the massive March quake and tsunami.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 00:20 UTC

  Paraguay and Uruguay claim Argentina is obstructing regional power agreement

  

  Argentina is delaying the sale of Paraguayan power to the Uruguayan market (which must cross Argentine territory) for reasons ‘as least publicly’ unknown for both sides interested in the deal, according to the Uruguayan and Paraguayan press.