Tag: Argentina

• Thursday, March 10th 2011 - 06:56 UTC

  London with no Argentine ambassador until at least 2012 to protest Falklands’ oil round

  

  The Argentine legation in London will remain without an ambassador until at least the end of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner four year mandate next December, confirmed diplomatic sources in Buenos Aires. The decision was originally taken to protest the current (second) round of oil exploration in the Falkland Islands’ waters.

• Thursday, March 10th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  The Kirchner camp sets out strategy for October’s presidential election

  

  Argentina’s Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, called on all political parties that would like to support the Victory Front’s presidential candidate next October and be part of the so called “combined-list ballots” to do it without fears or restrictions.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 22:52 UTC

  “Argentina has not learnt the 2001 lesson, nor have many investors the 2008 crisis”

  

  “There is no evidence that Argentina has learnt the lesson from the 2001 crisis”, said Carmen Reinhart one of the most influential US economists and an expert in Latin America, who has worked for the IMF, in Wall Street and teaches at the University of Maryland.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 18:03 UTC

  Nestor Kirchner government is more like “fascist brown shirts than left-wing”

  

  Former Uruguayan Industry and Energy Minister, Jorge Lepra (*), described Néstor Kirchner’s government as ”fascist”, during a meeting with the US Embassy Chargé D'Affaires at Uruguay, James Nealon, in February 14, 2006, according to a cable revealed by Wikileaks in which Nealon reported to Washington the minister’s harsh words.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 05:14 UTC

  Argentina bans inflation from official jargon; inflation of synonyms

  

  Next October Argentines will be going to the polls to vote for president and renew Congress which anticipates a rough political eight months, but before that the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has to weather a round of labour contracts which will be demanding strong adjustments because of the “prices distortion and dispersion” since the word ‘inflation’ has been erased from the official jargon.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 04:51 UTC

  Argentine highest court blasts CFK government for arbitrary distribution of state advertising

  

  A milestone ruling from the Argentina's Supreme Court calls for the omission of discriminatory criteria and “reasonable balance” in the allocation of state advertising. The ruling stems from a 2006 injunction filed by Editorial Perfil, the country's largest magazine publisher, claiming arbitrary distribution of official advertising.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2011 - 23:04 UTC

  Argentine thieves empty a house but take pity on victims and return a puppy

  

  Some thieves took pity on their victims and returned a puppy taken along with other loot from a house on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the Argentine press reported.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2011 - 05:05 UTC

  Argentina’s defence budget forecasted to reach 1.3% of GDP by 2015

  

  Argentina, similar to other Latin American countries, is increasing its defence budget at a robust pace, according to Research and Markets, a defence procurement news agency based in Alabama.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2011 - 04:34 UTC

  Cyndi Lauper sings with stranded passengers in Buenos Aires airport

  

  After flights in Buenos Aires were cancelled time after time on Friday, '80s singing icon Cyndi Lauper took to the airport's announcement system to perform for her fellow stranded passengers.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2011 - 04:23 UTC

  Kirchnerites’ deny any intention from Cristina to run for a third period

  

  Political associates reiterated that there are no intentions of Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to seek for a third period if the Head of State should end re-elected on next October presidential elections. For such purpose a constitutional amendment would be needed.