AFIP raids headquarters of Kenneth Darts company in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires Herald - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

AFIP tax agency officials today raided the headquarters of foam-cup maker Dart Sudamericana SRL, owned by billionaire Kenneth Dart, Argentina’s largest private creditor. The company is located in Pilar district, in the Northern area of Buenos Aires province, where AFIP raided the accountant and customs offices on a tax evasion ...

Teachers Poised to Begin More Strikes in Buenos Aires Province

Argentina Independent - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

SUTEBA protest (photo: Suteba) The Unified Union of Educational Workers in Buenos Aires (SUTEBA) has warned that a strike of 96 hours will go ahead if the government refuses to hold further wage negotiation talks by today. SUTEBA head Roberto Baradel said that apart from salary hikes, the union is also lobbying for increased government investment in education. ';The lack of investment is ...

Brazil Argentina US Have Largest Number Registered for WYD

Zenit - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Groups from the United States comprise the third largest national delegation of pilgrims going to the 28th World Youth Day, this year slated for July 23-28 in Rio de Janeiro, ...

Argentina Miners Pack Up Picks As Country Loses Its Luster

General Sources - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Argentina's mining sector is on the ropes as soaring costs and government regulations scuttle dreams of a mining boom in a country better known for its grain and beef exports.Mining exploration as measured by both investment and drilling plunged 50% on the year in 2012 and is likely to slump an additional 20% this year, said Julio Rios Gomez, president of mining exploration chamber ...

Democracia K What’s going on in Argentina

RT - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

May 25th marks the tenth anniversary of Nstor Kirchner being inaugurated President of Argentina. At the time, few Argentines would have imagined what was in store for their country with the advent of the "K" - for Kirchner - Regime. Especially after his hand-picked successor Cristina Kirchner became president in 2007, later re-elected in 2011. A year and a half into Cristina's ...

Falklands optimism about identification of the unknown Argentine soldiers

Merco Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

An Argentine delegation involved in human rights that in early May visited the Falkland Islands is optimistic about the possibility of advancing in the identification of the remains of Argentine soldiers buried as unknown in unmarked graves at the Darwin ...

No Argentina is not a cautionary tale for the eurozone | Nikos Chrysoloras

The Guardian - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A true giant of modern thought, Ludwig Wittgenstein believed that all problems in philosophy arise from the misguided use of language. Although this opinion, put forward in his early writings, seems far-fetched nowadays, Wittgenstein had a point.Since the start of the sovereign debt crisis, two false analogies have prevailed in the public dialogue regarding Europe: the first draws parallels ...

Iran approves agreement on Argentine bombing probe diplomat

The Daily Star - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Eduardo Amadeo, a legislator from the opposition Peronist Front, left, speaks against an agreement between Argentina and Iran in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The signs read in Spanish "Iran kills," left, and "Do not betray their memory, no to the agreement with the Iran regime." (AP Photo/Victor R. ...

Falkland Islands it’s a three-side debate Argentina must recognize Islanders right to decide their future

Merco Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

UK conditioned a possible re-launching of agreements on hydrocarbons and fisheries in the South Atlantic to Argentina accepting ‘there will be no sovereignty negotiations’ regarding the Malvinas Islands and called for the Argentine government to respect the wishes of the Falkland ...

Argentina absorbs 93 of beef production exports tumble behind Paraguay

Merco Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Argentine government trade restrictions on overseas sales of beef have turned Paraguay into Mercosur third largest exporter behind Brazil and Uruguay. The first place last year belonged to Brazil with exports of 1.3 million tons; Uruguay, 350.000 tons; Paraguay, 210.00 and finally Argentina.183.000 ...

Argentine Primera Division Wrap Tigre earn point at Lanus

soccerway - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tigre have denied Lanus the opportunity to go top of Argentina's Primera Division, holding on for a scoreless draw at home.Goalkeeper Damian Albil was the key man for Tigre as he made a number of crucial saves to deny Lanus' attackers, which kept the visitors in second position in the Primera Division despite leaders Newell's Old Boys only managing a draw away to ...

Autopsy Ex-Argentina dictator Videla died from injuries suffered in fall in shower at age 87

Canada.com - Monday 20th May, 2013

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Preliminary autopsy results say former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died from fractures and a hemorrhage suffered in a fall in the shower while he was serving a life sentence for human rights violations. The 87-year-old was found dead Friday in his prison cell, five days after he fell. The preliminary report released Monday says the hemorrhage that he ...

Iran Will Let Argentina Question Suspects in Anti-Semitic Attack

Hispanic Business Magazine - Monday 20th May, 2013

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has approved a deal with Argentina that clears the way for an investigation of an attack that killed 85 people at a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires in 1994, an Iranian diplomat said Monday. Ali Pakdaman, charge d'affaires at the Iranian Embassy in Argentina, told Argentine radio station Del Plata that the deal will not go through the ...

Are We Becoming Argentina - By Daniel Altman

Foreign Policy - Monday 20th May, 2013

A popular and often rueful saying in Argentina holds that the country can only be governed by Peronists. Avowed followers of former Argentine president Juan Domingo Pern have used their malleable brand of populism to dominate the political scene for half a century, even when nominally out of power. This kind of domestic hegemony may seem very distant from Washington's bipolar politics, ...

Crisis-hit Argentine biodiesel sector eyes U.S. market

The Globe and Mail - Monday 20th May, 2013

A biodiesel plant in Ocana, Spain. Argentina is pursuing U.S. environmental approval to export biodiesel more easily to the U.S. market and revitalize a local industry in 'crisis' due to trade problems with the European Union, Argentina's main biofuels chamber said on Monday. (SUSANA ...

In Argentina there’s a gorgeous apartment for sale and it only costs 409 Bitcoins

General Sources - Monday 20th May, 2013

Argentina's inflation . Only this time it wasn't another clandestine way to accumulate illegal US dollars; the group had traveled to the outskirts of Argentina's capital to hear about Bitcoin. That was over six months ago. Today, the meetups have ballooned to include as many as 100 locals interested in learning the basics of Bitcoin, and the latest developments in its ...

REUTERS SUMMIT-Argentina seeks U.S. environmental okay on biodiesel

Reuters - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mon May 20, 2013 5:19pm EDT (For other news from Reuters Latin America Investment Summit, click here) BUENOS AIRES May 20 (Reuters) - Argentina is pursuing U.S. environmental approval to export biodiesel more easily to that market and revitalize a local industry in "crisis" due to trade problems with the European Union, Argentina's main biofuels chamber said on Monday. The head of ...

Argentina at Bottom of Beef Exports in Mercosur

Argentina Independent - Monday 20th May, 2013

Share/Bookmark Argentina is no longer a world leader in beef exports. Of the countries that make up the trading block Mercosur, Argentina exports the least amount of beef, trailing behind the likes of Brazil, Uruguay, and ...

Almirante Irizar en route to becoming another major scandal for Argentina’s navy

Merco Press - Monday 20th May, 2013

Argentina’ icebreaker Almirante Irizar, docked for repairs since 2007 is en route to becoming another major scandal involving the Ministry of Defence and the Argentine Navy’s fleet. In the last six years Argentina has invested the equivalent of 200 million dollars in the recovery of the vessel that caught fire in 2007 and another 75 million dollars in contracting vessels to supply ...

Brazil trapped by Argentina and Venezuela economic mismanagements

Merco Press - Monday 20th May, 2013

Brazil’s main financial newspaper Valor Economico revealed that the recent summit between Presidents Cristina Fernandez and Dilma Rousseff from Argentina and Brazil was far from polite and enlightening, rather the contrary with "strong disagreements in the fields of trade and investment" shaking the foundations of ...

UPDATE 1-Argentinas main grains ports paralyzed by labor strike

Reuters - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mon May 20, 2013 4:09pm EDT (Adds comment from port chamber) BUENOS AIRES May 20 (Reuters) - Port workers in Argentina's main grains hub of Rosario went on strike over wages on Monday, a local union spokesman said, slowing exports from the world's No. 1 soymeal and soyoil supplier. Wage strikes are common in Argentina, where private economists clock annual consumer price inflation at ...

Iran enforces memorandum with Argentina to look into AMIA terrorist bombing

Merco Press - Monday 20th May, 2013

The business representative of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires Alí Pakdaman announced on Monday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad endorsed without Congress approval the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Argentina and Tehran in order to investigate the AMIA Jewish centre bombing which killed 85 people in ...