Argentina

About 300,000 participate in rallies on farming tariffs

Buenos Aires - An estimated 300,000 people gathered Tuesday in Buenos Aires in opposing rallies over the ongoing political confrontation over higher export tariffs for certain crops, local media re

Argentine president links food speculators to finance crisis

Argentine president links food speculators to finance crisis

The late Che, still en vogue on 80th birthday

Buenos Aires - Argentine-born Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the physician who imprinted his forceful personality on revolution in Latin America during the second half of the 20th Century, would be turning

Argentine farmers extend protest, call for dialogue with government

Argentine farmers extend protest, call for dialogue with government

Farmers sceptical of Argentine government's bid to end strike

Buenos Aires - The Argentine government has blinked for the first time since a 79-day farmers strike began, announcing ceilings on progressive export taxes on grain and soya, but farmers scoffed a

Argentine government breaks off talks with agricultural producers

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's Buenos Aires  - The Argentine government said Monday it would not continue negotiating with agricultural producers in the face of recent criticism from their leaders of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's policies.

Argentina's four agricultural federations organized a rally Sunday in Rosario, some 300 kilometres north of Buenos Aires, marking the Day of the May Revolution, which in 1810 began the country's independence from Spain.

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