Lithium and lithium carbonate markets are set to grow in Latin America with the commissioning of a new lithium carbonate processing plant in Argentina and plans by Bolivia to use Iranian help in exploiting its deposits of the mineral. Read Article
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As the nuclear crisis intensifies in Japan, thoughts have turned to the atomic power industries in other countries and to questions of safety. There are 439 nuclear reactors the world over, six of which can be found in Latin America. Argentina was the forerunner in this regard and currently has two plants in operation. A […]
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Today at 11:00 am a tourist raft carrying nine people crashed into a stone wall ne the Garganta del Diablo zone at Iguazú Falls in Argentina. Several sources have listed two of the deceased in the accident being from the United States. Other injured and transported to hospitals including tourists from Colombia, German, and Argentine. […]
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Argentina’s top union boss, Hugo Moyano, late Friday called off a transportation strike set for next week that threatened to disrupt economic activity across the country. “We are suspending this measure we had planned for Monday,” Moyano said in a televised press conference, referring to the strike. Read Article
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Argentina’s economy grew by a lightning-quick 9.2 percent last year, but a surge in imports fed by increasing domestic demand is cutting into the current account surplus. Read Article
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Crowded into precarious mud-floored dorms or sheet-metal trailers or forced to live in tents of plastic sheeting, with neither piped water nor electricity, after working 14-hour days: these are the harsh conditions faced by hundreds of thousands of rural workers in Argentina despite bumper crops and record earnings for agribusiness. Read Article
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Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has refused to appoint a new ambassador to Britain showing her resentment of the British presence on the Falkland Islands. What stands behind this move of the Argentine President? Read Article
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Posadas Airport ceased operations on Sunday night at 21:00 by beating the radio permit inspection of help to commercial flights, which gives the Secretary of Transportation’s Office after verification technique of an Air Force . The manager of Aerolineas Argentina Posadas Adrian Omar told Regueria Aeropuerto”. that “last night (on Sunday) our last flight out. […]
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DOLE Chile, the largest fruit exporter from Chile, has announced plans for expansion in the neighbouring market of Argentina, writes Vladimir Pekic. A key component of the plan is the installation of a new vegetable processing plant in Argentina. According to Juan Pablo Vicuña, Dole Chile’s general manager, his company wants to replicate the vegetable […]
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The sign at the start of the trail was a little disconcerting: If you see a puma, don’t run. Maintain eye contact, shout loudly, raise your jacket over your head and tell a park ranger. It seemed like a lot to remember should a hungry cat come loping down from the sandy hills. Would I […]
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Argentine judge Marcelo Aguinsky dismissed charges against the U.S. after an American military aircraft was seized in the South American country for allegedly smuggling undeclared items, including weapons and surveillance equipment, local media reported Friday. Read Article
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Argentina’s Andean northwest is a wonderland of absolutely epic driving roads. The fun starts in Tucumán province on Ruta Provincial 307: a mad jungle climb of 5512 feet up the Río de los Sosa gorge. Read Article
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Although in recent days appeared no more infected dogs, say it is very likely to continue further cases. Meanwhile, the disease transmitted by Aedes aegypti is advancing rapidly in Santa Fe The City continues with the operations and calls for local cooperation. Read Article
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The Ministry of Health of Argentina announced today that it has confirmed 17 cases of dengue in the province of Santa Fe while other 41 people with symptoms of having contracted the disease that killed five people in 2009. Read Article
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The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a non-governmental organization that has been working for over 30 years to locate the families of children kidnapped and “disappeared” during the military dictatorship in Argentina, is this year’s recipient of the United Nations cultural agency’s peace prize. The Jury of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, meeting in […]
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Global X, the New York-based exchange-traded fund company known for its niche and developing-market strategies, launched the first-ever single-country ETF focused on Argentina. The ETF provides exposure to the South American country’s 20-largest companies through depositary receipts. Read Article
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Elcomercial.com.ar reported the Minister of Health for Buenos Aires is urging residents to take measures to reduce the risk of dengue fever. He indicated that March is susceptible to the disease because of the heat, humidity and rain. The minister recommended to empty or cover pools and to eliminate the accumulation of water.
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The choice of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa to inaugurate Argentina’s annual book fair is turning into a political challenge for President Cristina Fernandez. Read Article
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Taxi owners Mendoza achieved this morning that the government said yes to claim that keep in September: the 30% rise in the rate of travel. Although the increase is less than 30%, 29%, a sum that will make it very difficult for ordinary people to a trip. The minimum fare, ie what you pay only […]
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez called for jailing tax evaders, cracking down on money laundering and limiting foreign ownership of land on Tuesday as part of a broad legislative agenda for this election year. She said foreign holdings of land should be limited but gave no specifics, and said the new law should not drive away […]
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Tuesday urged the Congress to approve a law against money laundering as requested by the International Financial Action Group (IFAG). In this fourth government report, Fernandez warned Argentina could be punished by the IFAG if it fails to approve this law, even if “the executive power made all efforts, (and […]
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The Argentine government has taken the first step toward implementing a glacier protection law, ordering a nationwide inventory of glacial ice that will determine which areas will be put off limits to mining. President Cristina Fernandez issued a decree Tuesday ordering an extensive study of the country’s glaciers, peri-glacial areas and changes to the glaciers […]
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An Argentine rescue patrol found the body of a Polish mountaineer who had gone missing 16 days ago near the peak of Mt. Aconcagua, which this season has taken the lives of six climbers, the Buenos Aires press reported. The remains of Liezec Bomark, 35, were found Monday not far from the summit of the […]
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Problems in recruiting departments on the Atlantic coast increased dramatically during the first half of January. As reported by the Law Association of Argentina Tourism (AADETUR) during the first half of January, receiving 28 complaints of fraud in rent on the coast, an alarming if one considers that in all of 2007 only had six. […]
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Argentina’s tax agency has again raided the offices of leading multinational grain exporting companies, seeking evidence to back up charges that the companies cheated the government out of about 150 million pesos ($38 million) in taxes. Read Article
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An Argentine government proposal to crack down on clients benefiting from the trafficking of persons for the purposes of sexual exploitation has unleashed a heated debate between feminist organisations that support the idea and sex workers who are opposed to it. Read Article
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We explore Iberá, South America’s second largest estuary I sure do look funny in my head-to-toe, Mormaii, semi-dry outfit — the six-millimeter-thick, bright blue camouflage neoprene spacesuit required for diving in chilly 53-degree freshwater. But not as funny as I feel. I’m feeling strangely apprehensive. Not because I look like an excommunicated Smurf, but because […]
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Argentina is going ahead with deep-sea exploration for hydrocarbons close to the Falklands Islands territorial waters in the South Atlantic despite risks of heightened tensions with Britain and the U.K. overseas territory. Read Article
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Argentina has dissolved ONCCA, the agricultural trade agency responsible for grain export limits, and will be transferring control of the quotas to a commission controlled by the ministry of agriculture. The government has created an inter-disciplinary body, which will be in charge of granting subsidies following the dissolution of the farm trade watchdog. Read Article
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Two former Argentine dictators appeared in court Monday for the first time to face charges over the kidnapping of some 500 babies decades ago, seized from their mothers in secret maternity units minutes after birth. Read Article
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Seven foreign citizens were arrested accused of belonging to a gang was involved in extorting money from Chinese traders who opened supermarkets in the city and suburbs. Police sources informed that six of those arrested are Chinese nationals and the remainder is Dominican, one of which would be the alleged leader of the criminal organization. […]
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The Chinese footprint on the Argentine energy landscape will increase with the acquisition of an Exxon Mobil downstream unit by the company with a significant shareholding by China’s third largest state-owned oil company. Read Article
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Argentine incumbent fixed line operator Telecom Argentina has announced that its net profit for the fourth quarter of 2010 rose 28% year-on-year to ARS512 million (USD127 million), on the back of increasing revenue from broadband internet and mobile services. Read Article
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A deal between Argentina’s government and teachers’ unions to raise the minimum wage for new part-time teachers by about 27% sets a precedent for teachers’ unions negotiating salary increases in provinces across the country, Stella Maldonado, head of the national teachers’ union, CTERA, said in a phone interview Wednesday. Read Article
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A total of 50 people were evacuated in the city of Puerto Madryn Chubut, due to heavy rains that occurred today. Police sources estimated the number of assisted and auto amounted to 50, due to the torrential rain that hit the city, located in the northwest of Chubut. Read Article
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Argentina’s defense minister, Arturo Puricelli, announced the move to the status of “available” to all personnel responsible for the care of the weapons in an army battalion in the province of Santa Fe ( East Central), after detecting the failure of numerous weapons, as reported from within the ministerial portfolio. Read Article
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Argentina’s challenge to a ruling that froze some of its U.S. assets in order to satisfy court awards to hedge funds seeking to collect on the country’s defaulted bonds. Read Article
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The Senate today became a project by the Act which provides that the sale of so-called drug counter, such as antacids, digestive and analgesics, among other products, must be dispensed only at pharmacies and not in supermarkets, kiosks and stores. The new law repeals the Decree 2284 of 1991, which had enabled the sale of […]
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Despite years of strong economic growth, record harvests and massive social assistance programmes, there are still places in Argentina untouched by the boom, where child malnutrition has even claimed lives. Hunger and malnutrition affect 53 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, including nearly nine million children under five, according to United Nations statistics. […]
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One of the potential impacts of climate change that arouses most concern is an increase in diseases transmitted by tropical insects, like Chagas’ disease, Argentina’s main endemic illness. However, while they are aware of shifting climate zones, experts consider the biggest threat of expansion of Chagas’ disease to arise not from global warming, but from […]
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MDZOL.com reported today that American tourist, Robert Jerome, died in the Caverna de las Brujas near Malargüe, Argentina. He was reported to be age 65 and authorities believed he died of an apparent heart attack. His corpse was found in a decomposed state. Read Article Video of Caverna de las Brujas – unrelated to current […]
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In 2010 a total of 2.647.869 non resident tourists visited Argentina, data supported by the International Tourism poll and sponsored by the Tourism Ministry and Indec. The main sources of information are the international airport of Ezeiza and the smaller Aeroparque terminal in downtown Buenos Aires that operates a shuttle to neighbouring Montevideo in Uruguay. […]
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There’s no reason for us to make up any excuses. We’re still talking to Argentina and working as best as we can in order to solve this conflict,” Mr. Crowley explained in a press conference. The secretary assured that both countries “share a history of close cooperation,” so the US government is still “surprised and […]
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Buenos Aires state Gov. Daniel Scioli says worker are searching to make sure there are no more people trapped in the wreckage, located near the San Miguel station, 12 miles (20 kilometers) west of Argentina’s capital. Read Article Preliminary reports from CLARIN.com state it appears the accident may have been due to human error.
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Argentine trade unions and grains exporters will meet for last-ditch wage talks on Wednesday to try to avert a new strike after workers last month blocked ports in one of the world’s top food suppliers. Read Article
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“North Bay residents stranded in Argentina. Need your help.” The e-mail cry came from Pam Walker and Pierre Simard during a South American New Year’s vacation last month when they found themselves without passports as their cruise sailed away without them. Read Article
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No traces of Polish climber was lost on Saturday afternoon at the Aconcagua and concerned by the persistence of bad weather, in a tragic week in which there were two deaths (a total of five on the season) and a dozen evacuees. Read Article
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President of the Grandmas of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, rejected on Tuesday those economic groups that are playing down the persistence in Argentina of aberrant crimes like peopleâ�Ös trafficking and slave labor. Now that the State is dealing with it, concerned parties like the Argentine Rural Society are trying to play down the […]
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The Argentinean Minister of Interior, Florencio Randazzo, justified Tuesday the requisition carried out last Thursday of an airplane belonging to the US Air Force, a third of whose load had not been declared. Read Article
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Argentina’s strict abortion laws prohibit terminations except when the life or health of the pregnant woman is in danger or if the pregnancy results from the rape of a mentally disabled woman. The government has rolled out national contraceptive campaigns, but despite this there are still up to 500,000 clandestine abortions in every year. Read […]
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Argentina has accused the United States military of trying to bring guns and surveillance equipment into the country under the cover of supplying a police training course, creating the latest diplomatic rift between the countries. Argentine customs officials seized undeclared equipment on Thursday, including what they described as machine guns and ammunition, spy equipment and […]
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According to Argentine sources the joint declaration reaffirms the “importance of the strategic relation between both countries” and is the continuation of what was agreed during the recent presidential summit of Dilma Rousseff with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Buenos Aires. Read Article
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A 45 year old woman broke down in Carlos Paz at the weekend and died for lack of medical care. Gladys Mendoza, in the locality of Hurlingham, was vacationing with her sisters and brother. This is the second case in just one week in the main resort of Córdoba. Last week died in a similar […]
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Brazil and Argentina came out Friday against a French proposal to be put to the G20 to regulate commodity prices whose recent rises are blamed for a spike in food costs. IMF chief urges global monetary reform. Read Article
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Most Indonesians generally know Argentina for its soccer and tango. But they don’t know that the main ingredient — soybean — in staple foods such as tempe, tofu and soy sauce comes mostly from Argentina. In recent years, Indonesia has become one of the Asia’s biggest soybean importers — buying the food commodity mainly from […]
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“In my family, they always saw me as a girl, but at school they called me by my boy’s name, which is why I dropped out,” Paula Sosa, a transvestite who recently managed to change her name on her identity document, told IPS. Sosa’s case appears in a campaign launched in 2010 by the Association […]
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International Cristo Redentor tunnel, which links Mendoza with Chile, was closed yesterday afternoon after the earthquake in the neighboring country due to a landslide that blocked the route across the mountains, said the National Highways (DNV) and police personnel. Read Article
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Although so far no details are known, a group of people threw Molotov cocktails at the home of Judge Ricardo Borinsky, in the locality of Castelar. However, upon hearing the explosion, the custodian of the judge and an oversee Borinsky deprived of a booth located in the area alerted police of Castelar. Read Article
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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.” Read Article
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The nearly 200 theatres in the Argentine capital have been staging an increasing number of plays exploring gender identity or specifically gay issues in recent years, in mainstream, fringe and state-run productions. Read Article
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An Argentine provincial government has offered financial assistance to its farmers in the form of a US$1.96 million subsidy, reported news site Rionegro.com.ar.Neuquén territory development minister Leandro Bertoya. The move was led by Neuquén vice-governor Ana Pechen and territory development minister Leandro Bertoya, offering US$623.75 per cultivated hectare, the story reported. Read Article
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IN May 1982 Spanish police probably altered the course of the Falklands War after stumbling on Argentinean plans to blow up British warships in Gibraltar harbour. A recently reissued documentary, directed by Jesus Mora, refutes Sunday Times claims that the French intelligence service alerted Britain to the plot. Read Article
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Expect the menu to be on the red-blooded side, writes Ute Junker. Favourite flavours This is cattle country and you’ll find “bife” on every menu: from asado (barbecue) to bife de chorizo (sirloin steak) or even stuffed in an empanada – which is what locals call a meat pie. Argentina is the fifth-largest producer of […]
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Argentine officials admitted deaths due to malnutrition among the country’s poor of indigenous Latin American people and promised government action to minimize the problem. Read Article
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In a land uniquely suited to simple pickup trucks, Argentines use a homebuilt contraption of Borgward, wood, and artisan panels called the Rastrojero.It’s the sort of truck that makes the casual observer instinctively develop tender feelings. Some of it is down to the average Rastrojero’s advanced age: even the newest examples on the road are […]
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On February 3, two Dutch nationals were assaulted and robbed of personal belongings by two thugs at Cerro de La Gloria in Buenos Aires. In just four days there were two robberies on tourists in the Cerro de la Gloria, with similar characteristics. Read Article
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A couple of tourists had a bad moment in the raft Maroma, on 1 February, when they broke the glass and stole the vehicle documents and other items. Solicitan que si alguien los encontró, los devuelva. Otra turista estadounidense fue víctima de un robo en la madrugada del domingo. They ask that if anyone found […]
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Damian Vásquez used to regularly update the prices of household cleaning products on the sign outside his store. Today he often does not bother. Inflation has been causing prices to rise so fast that he grew tired of the effort to keep up. Read Article
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In early January, three Argentine pilots of a private modern jet were arrested in Barcelona, Spain, for transporting nearly a ton of cocaine. The episode is embarrassing for the Argentinean government since Spanish investigators have proof that the cocaine was loaded onto the plane from an Argentinean military airbase. Moreover, this was the last and […]
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At about 8 am yesterday, the remains of German mountaineer Karl Heinz Bar , were lowered by helicopter to Horcones and subsequently sent to the capital city, to perform the procedures for death. This was reported by the rescue patrol that during Tuesday night after a hard work, the patrol was able to recover the […]
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Argentinean authorities captured one of the U.S. Marshals 15 most wanted fugitives in Buenos Aires on Thursday, a man accused of the brutal killing of an Arizona woman. Read Article
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Argentina’s government plans to force multimedia company Grupo Clarin SA to roll back a recent price hike on more than 3 million of its cable television customers. Read Article
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A major Argentine port slowly began reopening after an eight-day industrial strike paralyzed the important hub, officials and union sources said. “The picket lines are gone,” a union organizer who declined to be identified told AFP, after talks with the government began over wage hikes. Read Article
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Argentina is threatening to fine economic consultants if they don’t release information about how they calculate changes in consumer prices, opening up a new front in its battle with the private sector over the credibility of inflation data. Read Article
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The National Institute for Industrial Technology is using naturally occurring waste products like onions, sunflower seed husks and peanuts to create natural alternatives to synthetic dyes. Read Article
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Economy Ministry sources reported that the National Government is exploring the possibility of applying the Law of Supply before the price increase by Shell. Supply Law allows Cristina Fernandez management through the Ministry of Domestic Trade bind “roll back fuel prices.” Read Article
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TORRONTÉS has been touted as the hottest thing to arrive from Argentina since the tango. Or at least since malbec. It’s a grape, and a white wine, and some say it will be as popular in the United States as pinot grigio. Read Article
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Argentine workers will comply with a government order to call off a wage strike in key grains ports that has disrupted exports and crushing for a week, a union leader said on Wednesday. Read Article
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A strike that has halted grain and edible-oil shipments from important river ports in Argentina entered its seventh day Tuesday, with the local port authority saying it won’t allow more ships to dock or anchor in the area. There are currently nine vessels docked and an additional 13 anchored near the San Martin, San Lorenzo […]
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A pay strike at key Argentine grains ports that is disrupting exports from one of the world’s biggest food suppliers could worsen if it is not resolved soon, a union leader said on Monday.
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A helicopter from the megayacht Octopus, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, made an emergency landing on water in Argentina’s far south on Monday, officials said, injuring one co-pilot. Allen was not on board. Read Article
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New Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is in Argentina on her first foreign trip to talk about nuclear energy and trade with President Cristina Fernandez. It’s the first time both South American countries are led by women. Read Article
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More than 1,300 gay couples married in Argentina during the first six months of a new law that allows marriage between same-sex couples, passed in July,2010. According to a report of the Argentina Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transvestites (FALGBT) published by the Buenos Aires newspaper “Clarín” , 70 percent of marriages between men […]
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The Spanish authorities in Barcelona seized an executive jet from Argentina this month that was carrying about 2,000 pounds of cocaine. An Argentine company specializing in private medical transfers, Medical Jet, was operating the plane, which was being flown by pilots whose fathers were generals during Argentina’s bloody dictatorship. Read Article
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In 2004, Argentina received a wake up call. The Latin American nation experienced a deep energy crisis as a result of a shortage in natural gas caused by the demand for energy skyrocketing and outstripping supply. Since then the country has made a conscious effort to diversify its energy sources, with wind power attracting particular […]
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The administration of Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez pushed for the legislation, which allows Muslim women to wear hijab in public places, the Press TV correspondent in Buenos Aires reported on Tuesday. According to the new law, Argentinean Muslim women can use photographs wearing headscarves for their national ID cards. Read Article
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Workers in one of Argentina’s major ports near the city of Rosario have staged a strike, paralyzing the South American country main point of soy and grain exports. Labor unions of truck drivers, stevedores and other port workers walked out on the indefinite strike early on Wednesday to protest low wages. Read Article
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Lagaceta.com website reported today that the government of Argentina in an agreement with Aerolineas Argentina are going to offer free flights from any destination within Argentina to Salta. This promotion is for the months of May and June 2011, and is only for foreign tourists. The article further stated the information was announced by Federico […]
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A group of Paraguayan and Argentine truckers today blocked a border crossing between the two countries, which caused traffic jams up to three miles and millions in losses, according to the National Police. According to the official report, workers prevent the passage of cargo vehicles and passengers in protest against customs measures. Read Article
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According to (SENASA) national Food Health and Quality Service statistics, Argentina exported 430,894 tons of seafood in 2010. The total value was 1,205.3 million USD. However, the volume was 3.1 percent lower than in 2009.
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Three of every ten Argentines fall below the poverty line, 30.9% of the population, Ecolatina consultants said and they warned that “if prices continue to increase, it will be difficult for poor people’s income to beat inflation.” Read Article
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Argentine daily newspaper El Cronista on Monday reported that YPF will begin oil exploration in the Malvinas basin in February. The newspaper reports that exploration will begin 289 kilometres off the coast of Tierra del Fuego and cost U$ 150 million. Read Article
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Since recovering part of their territory in 2005, an indigenous Guaraní community in the northeastern Argentine province of Misiones is working to maintain and expand a cultural tourism initiative. On about 265 hectares located a 20-minute drive from Iguazú Falls and 10 kilometres from the Argentine city of Puerto Iguazú, people in the Yryapú community […]
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Argentina, addressing a bank security problem that is bedeviling much of South America, said it would ban cell phones from bank lobbies to counter a rash of robberies of customers who are being assailed after making withdrawals. Read Article
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A brick from The Cavern Club, a check for 11 pounds signed by Ringo Starr, an “authentic” Beatles wig. These and thousands of other objects related to the “Fab Four” are luring Beatles fans to a new museum in Buenos Aires. Read Article
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Argentine farmers said on Sunday they will lift a week-long strike that halted grain markets in the commodity powerhouse, but they vowed to resume protesting the government’s export curbs that affect their incomes. Mario Llambias, head of the Rural Confederation of Argentina, said the trade strike will be lifted as agreed, but farmers will keep […]
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Three-lane freeways, skyscrapers and modern cars: an unexpected scenery in a “third-world” country best known for the biggest debt default in history. This is Buenos Aires, the city of contrasts. Poor neighborhoods next to the presidential palace and shanty towns over the railway from the richest district of the capital. Read Article
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Argentina Federal Police requested assistance from the Brazilian Federal Police, based on the state of Rio Grande do Sul, for investigation of assault on Banco Provincia. Argentine agents are investigating whether the attackers fled across the border between the two countries. Read Article
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The Central Bank regulated the bank security law, passed on the end of last year amid the boom in the form of theft known as “leaks. And it presents a surprise: according to the vice president of the company, Michael Pesce, customers and employees should leave bags or lockers their cell phones when entering a […]
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