Tag: Argentina

• Saturday, October 30th 2010 - 08:28 UTC

  After two days of spontaneous popular support Kirchner is laid to rest in Rio Gallegos

  

  The coffin carrying the remains of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was buried late Friday at the family’s pantheon in his home town of Rio Gallegos in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, where he died last Wednesday following a massive heart attack.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2010 - 14:37 UTC

  Argentina’s most powerful political leader dies in Patagonia

  

  Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner (2003/2007), the current president's husband and one of the country's most powerful politicians, died early Wednesday, confirmed state television.

• Wednesday, October 20th 2010 - 00:59 UTC

  China purchases 70.000 tons of Argentine soybean oil; in November 80.000 tons?

  

  China has bought at least 70,000 tons of Argentine soybean oil after Beijing decided to unlock the imports ban that had resulted in a mounting-tension conflict. The move came after China agreed to allow all products coming from Argentina to enter its ports and was reported by Oil World magazine.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 06:59 UTC

  China resumes purchases of Argentine soy beans banned since April

  

  China’s two largest state-owned grains and oilseeds trading companies to import soybean oil from Argentina, easing restrictions imposed in April. Beijing-based Cofco Ltd., China’s biggest grain trader, and China Grain Reserves Corp. have been cleared by the commerce ministry to import soybean oil from Argentina.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 00:21 UTC

  Argentina claims IMF wants rich world’s “stagnation” exported to developing countries

  

  “The IMF wants to make us believe that the policies which caused the crisis are now going to be part of the solution”, said Argentina’s Central bank president Mercedes Marcó del Pont following the opening of the IMF/World Bank annual assembly.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 18:06 UTC

  Chile tries to cool escalating conflict with Argentina

  

  Chilean Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno said Wednesday he would not make any further comments involving the serious controversy which erupted following Argentina’s decision to deny extradition of a Chilean guerrilla fighter charged with the killing of a Senator and kidnapping the son of a media owner in 1991 when democracy had been restored to Chile.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 17:39 UTC

  IMF and Kirchner administration agree: economy to expand strongly 2010/11

  

  The International Monetary Fund warned of considerably high price index inflation and seemed sceptic of official GDP growth reports in Argentina as it presented its World Economic Outlook report, although it forecast a 7.5 percent growth, with a strong expansion partly due to the favourable global scenery and a strong trade with Brazil.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 05:22 UTC

  President Piñera’s cousin and Senator says the Kirchners are not to be trusted

  

  A leading Chilean Conservative Senator said on Tuesday it is going to be very difficult to have a confidence relation “with the Argentine government, the President and the Kirchner couple” and described Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman as someone who lacks “human and intellectual category”.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 05:20 UTC

  Chile freezes relation and calls off series of meetings with Argentina

  

  Chilean Argentine relations deteriorated seriously on Tuesday when the government of President Sebastian Piñera announced they were calling off a series of meetings at Foreign Affairs ministerial level following on Buenos Aires decision to grant political asylum to a former guerrilla fighter.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 04:36 UTC

  Galician-Falklands fishing fleet complains about Argentine ‘harassment’ in S. Atlantic

  

  The Falklands/Malvinas dispute between Argentina and the UK is having its effects on the (Spanish) Galician fleet in the Southwest Atlantic, where most of its vessels operating under the Falklands flag are continually being “harassed” by Argentine patrol vessels, reports El Faro de Vigo in an interview with Javier Touza, president of the Vigo Ship Owners cooperative.