Tag: Argentina

Thursday, November 18th 2010 - 20:33 UTC
Argentina/Paris Club debt negotiations have a deadline: April 2011

Finance Secretary Hernán Lorenzino said Argentina wants to successfully conclude negotiations with the Paris Club Group of creditor nations involving 6.7 to 8 billion US dollars in defaulted debt before April.
Wednesday, November 17th 2010 - 16:12 UTC
Argentina sends the Paris Club a possible road map for negotiations

Argentine Economy Minister Amado Boudou confirmed that the ministry sent a letter to the Paris Club in order to initiate negotiations and establish a course of action for the cancellation of debt, although no specific dates were mentioned.
Monday, November 15th 2010 - 21:11 UTC
Bilateral Argentina/Brazil trade forecasted to reach record of 34 billion USD

Bilateral trade among Mercosur main partners, Argentina and Brazil is expected to reach a “historic record” of almost 34 billion US dollars this year, 80% of which mostly manufactured goods, according to Argentine Industry minister Deborayh Giorgi, who also anticipated that the deficit would drop 30%.
Monday, November 15th 2010 - 08:11 UTC
Business concern in Argentina with inflation trend: “double the official figure”

Argentine businessmen from different sectors showed their concern about the upward trend of the inflation and assured that “the real volume doubles the one reported by the Indec national statistics bureau.”
Friday, November 12th 2010 - 15:43 UTC
Inflation or no inflation: that is the question for the Argentine government

Fissures inside the Argentine cabinet are surfacing and refer to one of the most irritating issues for the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner: inflation or no inflation.
Friday, November 12th 2010 - 13:52 UTC
As Argentine farming recovers machinery sales soar

Sales of farm machinery in Argentina soared 73% totalling 7.074 units, in the third quarter compared to the same period a year ago and 33.6% over the previous quarter according to the latest release from the Statistics and Census Office, Indec.
Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 20:13 UTC
Disappearance of Kirchner further splits Argentina’s main opposition group

Argentina’s main opposition group the so called “Federal Peronism”, dissidents from the ruling movement admitted going through a serious “crisis” because of the diverging opinions amongst its leaders, several of them 2011 presidential hopefuls.
Wednesday, November 10th 2010 - 04:30 UTC
Argentine gay community campaigning for a “gender identity” law

Under the motto “let’s go for more” Argentina’s gay and lesbian community is campaigning for a “gender identity” law to enable individuals to change their gender on birth certificates and identity cards.
Tuesday, November 9th 2010 - 04:10 UTC
Getting around sovereignty

By Roberto Cox (*) - Few people in Argentina, or Britain for that matter, are aware that in the years leading up to the war that was fought over the possession of the Islands that Argentina calls the Malvinas and Britain the Falklands, the British government was trying to integrate them with the mainland. Out of deference to the islanders — the Kelpers as they are called — I will not be so bold as to write that Britain was intent on giving the islands and their inhabitants to Argentina, but that was the general idea.
Tuesday, November 9th 2010 - 00:55 UTC
Population of Buenos Aires province: 15.2 million according to preliminary census

The province of Buenos Aires has the largest population of Argentina having increased 9.9% in the last nine years and reaching 15.2 million according to the preliminary results form the country’s national census.