Tag: Argentina

• Tuesday, July 13th 2010 - 06:40 UTC

  Chile clears minefields in Magallanes Region and Tierra del Fuego

  

  Chile will announce this week that the extreme south of the country, in areas next to the border with Argentina, is free of antipersonnel mines. Chilean authorities consider this a major step to comply with the 2016 Ottawa convention timetable.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2010 - 00:47 UTC

  For the first time since 2002 Fitch raises Argentina’s credit ratings out of default

  

  Fitch Ratings on Monday raised Argentina's credit ratings out of default, following the completion of a debt swap last month, but said the deal is not enough to open new financing sources for the country.

• Monday, July 12th 2010 - 03:52 UTC

  Argentina and Venezuela with highest (and climbing) inflation in South America

  

  While most of South America is undergoing a deceleration of consumer prices Argentina and Venezuela are the only countries to experience a significant increase in inflation, making it one of the main concerns or public opinion.

• Monday, July 12th 2010 - 03:04 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner in China to try and reopen the soy-oil market

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner arrived Sunday in Beijing with a delegation of 70 businessmen and an agenda concentrated on trade issues including one which is fundamental for Argentina, the resumption of soy-oil sales to China which have been banned for several months.

• Saturday, July 10th 2010 - 07:18 UTC

  Argentine agro-exports help boost international reserves to over 50 billion USD

  

  Argentina’s international reserves once again exceeded the 50 billion US dollars mark, boosted by an intervention to the Central Bank by the market in a record purchase of 262 million USD.

• Saturday, July 10th 2010 - 07:13 UTC

  School comic strips to depict the turbulent IMF/Argentina relation

  

  Argentina high school students are enjoying four comic strips, part of the official program, which satirizes the turbulent relation of the country with the IMF, presenting one of the works under the attractive name of “An intruder in the family”.

• Friday, July 9th 2010 - 07:07 UTC

  Argentina: Toothfish TAC set

  

  Argentine Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) established the total allowable catch (TAC) for toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) of 3,250 tonnes for the current year.

• Friday, July 9th 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Kirchner couple fortune climbs 20.6% in one year totalling 14.5 million USD

  

  The fortune of Argentine presidential couple, President Cristina Kirchner and her immediate predecessor and husband, Nestor Kirchner jumped 20.6% in 2009 totalling the equivalent of 14.5 million US dollars, and soared 700% since they first took office in 2003, according to their latest income statements delivered to the country’s Anti Corruption Office.

• Friday, July 9th 2010 - 04:36 UTC

  Kirchner ‘social grassroots leader” proposes celebrating “Son of the b… Day”

  

  A thug described as a “social grassroots leader” belonging to the Kirchner couple’s ‘black shirts’ cadres has proposed Argentina celebrate August 2 as the Day of the “Son of a b….” which is when former military dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was born.

• Thursday, July 8th 2010 - 08:13 UTC

  Argentina analyzing Uruguayan counterproposal for joint river monitoring plan

  

  “The ball is now on the Argentine court” said Uruguayan Vice-president Danilo Astori commenting on the country’s counterproposal for the monitoring plan to be jointly applied with Argentina to pulp mills, other industries and urban locations straddling the shared River Uruguay.