BUENOS AIRES – The Argentine government on Wednesday announced big hikes in wholesale electricity rates starting in February, although it has not been determined precisely how much retail customers will end up paying.The decision by the Energy and Mining Ministry was published Wednesday in the Official Bulletin and – although it includes the withdrawal of subsidies – rate discounts will be provided to homes that reduce their power consumption compared with the same month a year ago, and there Read more [...]

Salta province Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey said Peronist leaders demanded the government to “acknowledge the revenue-sharing scheme set by the Justice” duing the meeting they held today with Interior Minister Rogelio Frigerio. “The opposition and the government in Argentina, we are establishing a relation framework, like the Argentine people were expecting from us. Today we can discuss with strong positions and strength our convictions and somehow contribute to Argentina to grow,” Urtubey Read more [...]

In the Lavalle area of Santiago del Estero Province. (Photo : SENASA ) At present, Argentina is gripped by an attack of locusts after 60 years, making farmers and fumigators struggle with the problem, says The New York Times. Share This Story Related News Plague-infested Areas In U.S. Identified "It's the worst explosion in the last 60 years," said Diego Read more [...]

Argentina is facing a locust plague the likes of which it is hasn't seen in decades, country officials said Monday. Argentina's agricultural inspection agency, Senasa, has strengthened efforts to eradicate the insect swarms, but to little avail,  The New York Times reports. Within a few days, the locusts may take flight in a massive horde that threatens to destroy the country's crop fields and grasslands. "It's the worst explosion in the last 60 years," said Senasa's chief of vegetative protection Read more [...]

If you want mint tea with your breakfast at Casa de Uco, a luxury wine resort nestled in the Argentinian Andean foothills, your server first checks in the kitchen. Moments later, he is outside, walking toward the hotel’s organic garden, next to its vineyards. When he returns to your table moments later, he delivers a teapot brimming with freshly cut mint leaves. About one hour north, guests at the Entre Cielos Wine Hotel and Spa are greeted at the gate with a glass of rosé from the Mendoza-area Read more [...]

BUENOS AIRES Jan 27 (Reuters) - Argentina will raise electricity tariffs from February 1 and offer incentives to consumers who reduce their consumption on last year, a notice on the government bulletin showed on Wednesday. Argentine consumers pay some of the cheapest power bills in Latin America due to hefty government subsidies and a near blanket freeze on tariffs for more than a decade that has pushed creaking power grids to the brink of Read more [...]

Farmers and fumigators in Argentina are running out of time as they scramble to control the country’s worst plague of locusts in more than half a century, officials have warned. The provincial authorities and Senasa, the government’s agricultural inspection agency, have intensified their efforts to exterminate swarms of the insects in the dry forests of northern Argentina. But their attempts might not be enough to prevent the locusts from developing Read more [...]

Argentinians are now into wine more than ever before, thanks to new top-quality vintages that go beyond the purple, juicy malbec. Good spots to sample wines in Buenos Aires used to be relatively few, but that is now changing. Throw into the mix the fact that the government recently named fermented grape juice as Argentina’s national drink and you have the perfect sampling storm. Here are 10 of the best new wine bars and tasting rooms around the capital, showcasing the wares of Argentina’s 884 Read more [...]

Per il futuro, invece, la Fiorentina monitora attentamente Gabriel Barbosa detto anche Gabigol, talento brasiliano, di cui in patria se ne già parla un gran bene come uno dei principali talenti sudamericani. Saputo dell'interesse della Fiorentina, e di essere stato definito 'nuovo Batistutà, ha fatto sapere di voler rimanere in Brasile ancora per un anno in modo da prepararsi con calma all'avventura olimpica di Rio 2016, quando giocherà nella Selecao che ai Giochi punta all'oro. Su di lui c'è Read more [...]