Argentine president decrees $2.6 billion in cash handouts for children of unemployed President Cristina Fernandez decreed Thursday that Argentina will provide direct cash ...
Argentina's senate on Saturday overwhelmingly backed a controversial law that supporters say will wrest media power from a select few oligarchs, but which ...
Pope calls Argentina's poverty a 'scandal'; Kirchner acknowledges huge jump Now even the Pope says Argentina's sharp rise in poverty is a "scandal," and the government has been forced to agree, with former president Nestor Kirchner offering new poverty numbers that would ...
Argentina's government Friday convened its first talks in a year with farming groups which are threatening to renew paralyzing protests over export taxes on grains, especially soya. The chief of staff of President Cristina Kirchner's cabinet, Anibal Fernandez, is to receive the ...
Swine flu has spread to nearly every corner of the globe, the World Health Organisation has said, admitting it was still unknown how the virus would mutate in the northern hemisphere's winter. With the death toll still rising rapidly and countries rushing ...
The Mercosur trade bloc demanded to be exempted from paying patent rights for drugs to combat the swine flu pandemic that has been particularly deadly in South America. In their final declaration of a summit meeting, the leaders of the bloc's member ...
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner on Friday urged that patents not be used in producing a swine flu vaccine -- arguing that such a move could save millions of lives. Using patent rights to preserve an economic advantage in this case "would condemn ...
