Tag: Argentina

• Friday, April 1st 2011 - 01:22 UTC

  Argentina’s high expectations for the squid season are rapidly fading

  

  Encouraging expectations for the Illex argentinus squid season appear to be fading in Argentina. Following a start with good catches and high expectations, the average daily output of squid is now only around five tons in the area between parallels 44º and 46º South Atlantic.

• Friday, April 1st 2011 - 00:31 UTC

  “Loyalty rewards loyalty” message from Moyano to Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina’s powerful organized labour leader Hugo Moyano has sent another strong message thanking workers for “being loyal to him” at the same time his teamsters were granted a 24% rise in wages.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 04:04 UTC

  President Cristina Kirchner promises ‘to go for more’ as her popularity is on the rise

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said at a political rally that she’s not the leader of a government but the head of a political project with an agenda and a vision of Argentina, and anticipated she’s “going for more”.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 01:33 UTC

  EU says Argentina’s import restrictions hurt talks for trade deal with Mercosur

  

  Argentina's moves to restrict imports and prop up its shrinking trade surplus as well as European farmers resistance to ‘cheap’ meat imports could hurt talks for a trade deal between Mercosur and the European Union, an EU official said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 01:10 UTC

  Argentina promotes world-wide Malvinas discussion under the logo of “It takes two to tango”

  

  Argentine ambassador before United Nations Jorge Argüello is scheduled to give a conference this week in Bangkok, Thailand on the ‘Malvinas Islands issue” and the South Atlantic situation.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2011 - 05:14 UTC

  Argentina honours Chavez with press freedom award for fighting “media monopolies”

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was given a press freedom award during his visit on Tuesday to Argentina. The University of La Plata said it was honouring him for his efforts to break “media monopolies” in Latin America and support “popular communication”.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2011 - 05:08 UTC

  Chavez praises Argentina’s role in UNASUR; signs ambitious trade accord

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez underlined the significance of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) during his one day visit to Buenos Aires. Chavez is on a tour of the region that also includes Uruguay, Bolivia and Colombia.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 17:41 UTC

  Argentine Jewish organization denies any pact between Buenos Aires and Teheran

  

  The Buenos Aires Jewish organization AMIA which suffered a deadly attack in 1994 denied the existence of an alleged pact (in the making) between Argentina and Iran which would put an end to the investigations related to the bombing in exchange for the resumption of trade links with Teheran.

• Monday, March 28th 2011 - 16:38 UTC

  Israel demands Argentina clarifies an alleged “trade for silence” deal with Iran

  

  Israel may cancel a visit by Argentina's foreign minister after a report that the country told Iran it would stop investigating two bombings of Jewish targets in exchange for better trade relations.
  Argentinean Foreign Minister Hector Timerman is scheduled to visit Israel next week.

• Monday, March 28th 2011 - 16:31 UTC

  Moyano pickets block distribution of Argentina’s main dailies

  

  Argentina’s main daily and the Spanish language newspaper with largest circulation, Clarin from Buenos Aires appeared Monday with a blank front page to protest organized labour pickets that blocked Sunday’s edition distribution for almost twelve hours.