Argentina News
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ISRAEL, 2017/09/13
Defying doomsayers concerned about Israel losing diplomatic clout, Benjamin Netanyahu is headed to Bogota, Argentina, and Mexico -- part other Latin American nations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to depart for Latin America and the US on Sunday evening, marking the fifth time in some 15 months he will embark on ground-breaking trips to nations at no time before visited by a sitting Israeli prime minister.
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ISRAEL, 2017/09/10
Latin America is “hungry for Israeli technology,” a senior Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic visit to the region next week.
Deputy Director General at the Foreign Ministry’s Latin America and Caribbean Division, Modi Ephraim, said the visit will have historic significance, as it will be the initial by a sitting Israeli prime minister.
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ISRAEL, 2017/09/10
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will leave on Sunday evening for a working visit to Latin America.
During his trip, Netanyahu will visit Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. This will be the initial visit by a sitting Israeli Prime Minister to Latin America.
Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes will travel to Buenos Aires to meet Netanyahu. Netanyahu leaves for trip to Argentina, Mexico, and Columbia, then meets world leaders at UN General Assembly in New York.
Accompanying Netanyahu is a delegation of Israeli businesspeople from the fields of agriculture, water, communications and energy. Members of the delegation will hold commercial meetings with their local counterparts. Eonomic events will as well be held in Argentina and Mexico, led by Netanyahu and the Argentine and Mexican heads of national.
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AFGHANISTAN, 2017/09/09
Destinations worldwide welcomed 598 million international tourists in the initial six months of 2017, some 36 million additional than in the same period of 2016. At 6%, increase was well above the trend of recent years, making the current January-June period the strongest half-year since 2010.
Visitor numbers reported by destinations around the world reflect strong request for international travel in the initial half of 2017, according to the new UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. Worldwide, international tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) increased by 6% compared to the same six-month period last year, well above the sustained and consistent trend of 4% or higher increase since 2010. This represents the strongest half-year in seven years.
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ARGENTINA, 2017/08/22
Argentina will any minute at this time resume importing pork from the United States for the initial time since 1992, according to reports.
The announcement came a few days next U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Argentinean President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires.
According to a White Home statement, the United States is the world's leading exporter of pork, and this agreement opens a potential market of $ 10 million per year for American pork producers.
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ARGENTINA, 2017/08/09
The new National Transport Plan aims to close Argentina’s infrastructure gap to make the economy regionally and globally competitive.
Ranked a paltry 87th out of 140 nations in the world by the World Economic Forum for competitiveness in infrastructure – behind Ivory Coast and just ahead of Albania – Argentina’s creaking infrastructure, from unreliable power distribution to poor transport links, is holding it back. Meanwhile, Chile and Brazil rank 45th and 74th respectively, demonstrating the extent to which Argentina lost out to its neighbors in terms of foreign direct investment under the mismanagement of previous administrations.
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ARGENTINA, 2017/08/02
Brazilian engineering company Odebrecht [ODBES.UL] agreed to pay $220 million in fines and will cooperate with investigators probing bribes of Panamanian officials, the Central American country's attorney general said on Tuesday.
The fine included $100 million for using the banking system for illicit activities, said Panama's attorney general, Kenia Porcell.
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ARGENTINA, 2017/08/02
The top prosecutors of Brazil and Argentina are accusing their governments of interfering in the creation of a joint anti-corruption task force to investigate bribes by the Odebrecht engineering group so that politicians, a lot of of whom are under investigation, can themselves control the exchange of evidence.
Brazil's Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot said on Tuesday the two nations had agreed in June to set up a task force to allow the rapid and simultaneous investigation of bribes paid by Odebrecht, but the joint effort has not taken off.
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ARGENTINA, 2017/07/30
Argentina's YPF will start exploration in the Charagua area, in Bolivia, next signing an investment agreement with the Bolivian national-owned YPFB. The area could hold additional than 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to the Bolivian oil ministry.
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ARGENTINA, 2017/07/21
Next several years of negotiation, Argentina closed a transaction to sell fresh lemons to Mexico, next both nations agreed on phytosanitary requirements for the Argentinean exports of the fruits.
