Argentina

Tuesday, January 23rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Pull mills dispute: Argentina invites Uruguay to dialogue

Argentina called on neighboring Uruguay to dialogue about the construction of pulp mills following the International Court of Justice, ICJ, ruling that turned down Uruguay's request for an end to road and bridge blockades by pickets protesting alleged contamination from the controversial plants.
Tuesday, January 23rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine booming soybean industry breaks new records

Argentine soy bean mills processed 2.68 million tons of soybeans in November, up 28.9% from the same month a year earlier, reported the Agriculture Secretariat this week in Buenos Aires.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine farmers protest commodities higher export taxes

Several Argentine farmers associations are planning a full day of protest for next Tuesday in four main cities to express their dissatisfaction and rejection with the current agriculture policy of President Nestor Kirchner's administration.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Taiana meets Ban Ki-Moon to insist on Falklands talks

Argentina's Foreign Affaire minister Jorge Taiana is scheduled to meet Monday with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon when he will reiterate Argentina's “firm interest” in advancing a solution to the Falklands/Malvinas dispute with Great Britain.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina completes four years of growth at “Chinese” rates

Five years ago in the middle of political and economic chaos Argentina defaulted and devalued the currency putting an end to a decade of a fixed exchange rate of one peso equivalent to one US dollar.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Pickets will only abide to relocation of controversial pulp mill

The environmental assembly from Gualeguaychu whose pickets are blocking access to an international bridge leading to Uruguay in protest over the building of an allegedly highly contaminating pulp mill, have anticipated that they will no lift the pickets if an international court ruling favors Uruguay.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Taiana: good rapport with Ki-Moon on Malvinas issue

Argentina formally called on United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon good offices with the purpose of resuming talks with the United Kingdom to help find a peaceful solution to the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute.
Saturday, January 20th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine hake biomass again down to critical levels

The southern stocks of Argentine hake (Mercluccius hubbsi) are in fragile biological balance which will have a negative impact on catches this year and even more in 2008.
Saturday, January 20th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine industry grows for fourth straight year

Argentina's industrial production grew 8.3 percent last year mainly fuelled by a good performance in the car, construction and food sectors, achieving 50 straight months of growth, according to the state-run INDEC statistics and censuses agency.
Thursday, January 18th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine Coast Guard rescues grounded cruise liner

A cruise vessel with 1.612 passengers, mostly from Brazil, finally managed Thursday early afternoon to pull off from a River Plate sand bank where she was grounded for over twenty hours.