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...The Rosario Board of Trade, an agricultural market, predicted on Monday that Argentina would enjoy bumper soy and corn harvests this season and will export a record $42.3bn of grains and grain products in...
...Portugal is good value for money compared with Spain, says Cristina Santos of agency Engel & Völkers....
...Homicide rates fuelled by gang fighting have tripled over the past decade in the worst-hit areas, such as the port city of Rosario....
...In one incident the provincial governor’s residence in Rosario was sprayed with bullets....
...Cristina Fernández, Argentina’s president, on Friday said she was willing to negotiate with holdout bondholders and intended to honour the country’s financial contracts....
...Argentina’s Cristina Fernández succeeded her husband Néstor Kirchner; in Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo is the public face of the administration of her husband, Daniel Ortega; former first lady Margarita Cedeño...
...Meanwhile, a lack of railways or cheaper river transport meant that getting grains from the northern province of Salta to the port of Rosario cost more than shipping them from Rosario to Rotterdam, Mr Etchevehere...
...Of the two routes, one links Argentina’s western provinces to ports in Buenos Aires and Rosario, and the other connects northern provinces bordering Uruguay and Brazil....
...If the government goes forward, it will be one more in the laundry list of measures put into place by the government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in order to protect the country’s US dollar...
...Adelmo Gabbi, head of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, the Bolsa de Comercio, last month also urged Cristina Fernández, Argentine president, to eliminate the capital controls, saying that would be a vital...
...Meanwhile, no trucks have entered the port of Rosario, Argentina’s grains export centre, for four days; eight ships have been diverted for lack of cargoes in Argentina and 15 are stuck in Rosario awaiting...
...President Cristina Fernández called the project – which has been criticised as an extravagance when Argentina’s local train network urgently needs revamping – as ”a leap into modernity”. ”This is a very...
...Only around 1,600 grains trucks were entering the port of Rosario, Argentina’s main export centre, compared with 7,000 typically at this time of year....
...Farm leaders have called a rally for Sunday, Argentina’s Independence Day, in Rosario, the grains export capital....
...Noisy protests by farmers and their supporters on Tuesday night followed an uncompromising speech by President Cristina Fernández defending the new sliding scale of export tariffs on grains and cereals,...
...The protest also halted exports of cereals and oils from the main port of Rosario, fuelling higher world soy prices and forcing Chinese importers to seek alternative supplies....
...But Rosario Sica, president of a petrol station operators’ association, said a senior Esso official had told her: “We are in these talks”, citing legal instability and the difficulty of turning a profit....
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