News on Argentina

September 27, 2007

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is expected to easily win next month's presidential elections in Argentina, gave foreign bankers and investors an open-armed welcome Wednesday.
In an appearance more significant for its gestures than the content of her remarks, she told the pro-business Council of the Americas that her country had learned the hard lessons of its turbulent economic history and was now set on a path of predictable, stable growth.

September 26, 2007

On October 5, 2007 the Inter-American Economic Council will host a landmark program on Education in Buenos Aires. The World Bank has stated that despite the impressive progress over the last three decades Latin America still lags behind the developed world in terms of education. Basic social services have to be restored for millions of Argentines, and setbacks in the ... quality of education ... need to be rectified. "It's important that all candidates in the upcoming elections in Argentina keep education paramount within their campaigns", stated Ambassador Christopher Thomas, Chairman of the Council and former Assistant Secretary General of the OAS.

September 25, 2007

The gay World Cup has kicked off in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, showcasing more than 500 footballers from 28 countries.
Teams from North and South America, Europe and Australia are competing. Some take football very seriously and some just want to have fun.
There are a lot of games crammed into a week of football with six matches at a time being played at Sarmiento Park.
It is the first time the cup has been held in Latin America.

September 24, 2007

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's ruling Peronist Party is deeply divided and no one knows what it stands for anymore but it will almost certainly retain its grip on power in the October 28 presidential election.
Founded by Argentine strongman Gen. Juan Peron more than 60 years ago, the party is gripped by infighting and ideological splits, and three Peronists have jumped into the presidential race.
In a sign of the divide, front-runner first lady and Peronist senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has chosen her running mate from the party's traditional rival: the Radical Civic Union.

September 24, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Argentine military officer has been sentenced to six months in a U.S. prison for visa fraud and is likely to be returned home to face war-crimes charges, immigration officials said on Monday.
Ernesto Barreiro, 59, stated on his 2003 visa application he had never been detained for a crime in Argentina, despite having been held on torture charges in the 1980s, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
Barreiro faces life in prison in Argentina if convicted of torture, kidnapping and murder while chief of interrogation at a secret torture facility during Argentina's "dirty war" in the 1970s and 1980s, according to court documents.