Tag: Julio de Vido

• Wednesday, June 8th 2011 - 16:41 UTC

  Argentina gas earmarked for domestic consumption, not export, says minister

  

  Argentina won't become a natural gas exporter under the current government even if potentially massive deposits of unconventional gas turn out to more than enough to supply the domestic market, announced Planning minister Julio De Vido.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 10:09 UTC

  Mexican tycoon plans to invest 1.5 billion USD in Argentine telecommunications

  

  Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim, ranked as the world's wealthiest man by Forbes magazine, plans to invest 1.5 billion US dollars over the next two years in Argentina's telecommunications sector, officials said.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2011 - 07:00 UTC

  Malvinas basin oil exploration scheduled to begin first half of 2011

  

  Repsol-YPF plans to start deepwater exploration off the coast of Tierra del Fuego in the Malvinas basin are expected to begin before the end of the first half of 2011, according to company’s sources.

• Friday, February 11th 2011 - 06:55 UTC

  Corruption controversy: Argentine official calls US diplomats “a joke”

  

  Argentina’s Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández is the latest high-ranking official to address the Wikileaks controversy after Spanish newspaper El País published several cables that denounced various corruption cases within the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration.

• Thursday, February 10th 2011 - 06:26 UTC

  Argentine minister recommends US diplomacy “to hire more competent employees”

  

  Argentina’s Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido referred to the recently published Wikileaks documents by Spanish newspaper El Pais, and advised the US embassy in Buenos Aires “to hire more competent employees” since performing a “cut-and-paste task from the yellow press is something any idiot can do.”

• Wednesday, February 9th 2011 - 06:33 UTC

  Kirchner administrations lack “true political will” to eradicate corruption

  

  More than a hundred cables from the US embassy in Buenos Aires warned about the fragility of the judicial system and the impunity of criminals, according to an article recently published by Spanish newspaper El País. The leaked documents also spoke of the lack of a “true political will” to eradicate corruption.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2011 - 18:32 UTC

  YPF To Begin Offshore Exploration In Tierra del Fuego

  

  A spokesperson for the Argentine oil firm YPF informed that exploration work is scheduled to begin this quarter on the coast of Tierra del Fuego, a province located off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland.

• Thursday, August 26th 2010 - 04:59 UTC

  Argentine government promises free public access to internet

  

  The Argentine government has said it is working to create areas of free public access to the internet across the country through wireless networks.