Tag: Argentina

• Sunday, February 6th 2011 - 08:16 UTC

  Argentine aborigine children die of malnutrition and poor sanitary conditions

  

  An Argentine incumbent governor from the northern province of Salta admitted in a television interview that at least five children died of malnutrition last year and so far this year another case has been registered. Cases involve mostly the indigenous population.

• Friday, February 4th 2011 - 21:53 UTC

  Argentina still haunted by the holdouts from the 2001 default

  

  Argentina’s attempts to return to global credit markets nine years after its 2001/02 default received this week mixed results. New York Federal Judge Thomas Griesa has issued a ruling urging Argentina to pay 54.33 million Euros (US$75.1 million) to the Capital Ventures International Fund.

• Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 21:56 UTC

  Santander, Euro zone largest bank helped by solid results in UK and Brazil

  

  The collapse of the Spanish property prices helped pull annual profit down 8.5% at the Euro zone largest bank Santander. Solid results from Brazil and Britain, which each account for more profit than Spain at the diversified bank, failed to calm fears about exposure to a stagnant domestic economy, struggling to shake off the worst recession in half a century.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 - 07:06 UTC

  Argentina declares compulsory conciliation to end crippling strike at export ports

  

  Argentina's government has ordered unions to suspend a week-old strike at leading grains ports for a 15-day period to hold talks with company bosses, a Labour Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 - 06:53 UTC

  Trade deficit main “concern” for Argentine/Brazilian relations

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Héctor Timerman revealed Tuesday that the trade deficit Argentina has with Brazil is “concerning”, and indicated that both nations are working “to reduce it.”

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 - 01:13 UTC

  Soy prices soar as Argentine ports are blocked by week-long strike

  

  The provincial government of Santa Fe home of Argentina's grain export hub has requested the federal government to help end a week-old strike that is delaying shipments from one of the world's biggest food suppliers, the provincial Labour minister said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2011 - 00:06 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina ratify “strategic relation” and commit greater integration

  

  In her first overseas visit as Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff ratified Monday in Buenos Aires the “special strategic” relation with Argentina while her counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, called for an “increased productive integration” between the two leading Mercosur partners.

• Sunday, January 30th 2011 - 20:52 UTC

  Dilma Rousseff Makes First Trip Abroad As President to Argentina

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will arrive in Argentina on Monday on her first foreign trip as president.

• Thursday, January 27th 2011 - 19:02 UTC

  Argentine Exports Call For Government Help to Resolve Strike

  

  Grains exporters called on the Argentine government on Thursday to help end a pay strike before it disrupts shipments from one of the world's biggest food suppliers.

• Thursday, January 27th 2011 - 16:33 UTC

  Upset in Argentine as US President Not to Visit During Forthcoming Trip to Latin America

  

  United States President Barack Obama’s forthcoming visit to Latin America has cause upset in Argentina, because he will not be visiting the country. In March Obama will embark on his first trip to South America and Central America, visiting Chile, Brazil and El Salvador as he tries to shore up security and economic ties with the emerging economies.