El Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones (Enacom) será presidido por Miguel De Godoy, antiguo colaborador del presidente Mauricio Macri que fue secretario de Medios porteño hasta el 10 de diciembre, y tuvo un papel extraoficial pero central en la reciente intervención dictada por el Presidente en la propia Afsca.Cabe recordar que esta mañana, Peña anunció la creación de un ente de comunicaciones, que absorberá las funciones de las actuales AFSCA y AFTIC, así como también la intención de que Read more [...]

“It’s probably the most important derby in the world,” said Argentina coach Gerardo Martino before a friendly against Brazil last year. “Its significance lies in the history of the two teams and in the players they can choose from.” Without doubt, Argentina against Brazil is something very special, a duel for bragging rights between neighbours and rivals who can claim to consistently to produce the game’s leading stars. But Argentina have another local derby which, as well as present-day Read more [...]

Jose Antonio Nievas was out for a stream-side walk on Christmas Day when he stumbled across a shell that looks straight out of Jurassic Park. After partially digging it out of the mud, the Argentine rushed home to tell his family about his discovery. “At first I thought it was a rock or a car tire,” he told Argentine newspaper La Nacion. “When he came back he said, ‘Hey, I just found an egg that looks like it came from a dinosaur,’” his wife, Reina Coronel, told the news agency AFP. Read more [...]

The move is conservative President Mauricio Macri's latest assault on the economic policies of his left-wing predecessor Cristina Kirchner, whose administration he says practiced dodgy number-crunching for years. The National Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC) will suspend publication of official data on gross domestic product, inflation and poverty, said Jorge Todesca, its new director. Macri's government said the problem has become so bad that it amounts to a national emergency. "INDEC was Read more [...]

Argentina se disculpa con Bolivia por deuda por el gas y comienza a pagarla / La Razon / El Gobierno de Argentina se disculpó con Bolivia por la mora en el pago por el gas natural que importa y ha comenzado a cumplir con parte de sus obligaciones, informó hoy el ministro de Hidrocarburos, Luis Alberto Sánchez."Es posible que la primera quincena del próximo mes llegue a Bolivia el ministro de Energía de la Argentina (Juan José Aranguren), tenemos una agenda grande y uno de ellos es el interconectado Read more [...]

AFPCARLOS SPEGAZZINIA passer-by on Christmas Day found a meter-long shell on a riverbank in Argentina which may be from a glyptodont, a prehistoric kind of giant armadillo, experts said Tuesday.A local man thought the black scaly shell was a dinosaur egg when he saw it lying in the mud, his wife Reina Coronel told AFP. Her husband Jose Antonio Nievas found the shell beside a stream at their farm in Carlos Spegazzini, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the capital Read more [...]

Tennial Chu, vice chairman of Mission Hills, poses a photo with players of the national footballgolf team on Tuesday in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. (Photo/chinadaily.com.cn) China's first national team of footballgolf, including four players, will depart for Argentina next week to participate in an international tournament of the widely heralded new sport. Players including Ruan Chen, Pi Siwei, Ji Jie and Liu Mengyang, will compete with about 300 counterparts from 30 countries and regions Read more [...]

Ampliar President Mauricio Macri's economic Cabinet is cutting taxes on automobiles and motorcycles "to boost production" in Argentina, the Production Ministry said. EFE/File Buenos Aires, Dec 30 (EFE).- President Mauricio Macri's economic Cabinet is cutting taxes on automobiles and motorcycles "to boost production" in Argentina, the Production Ministry said. The ministry lowered the tax on cars priced above 350,000 Read more [...]

Argentina is poised to double its wheat and corn crops after recently revised grain export policies, Buenos Aires Province Agriculture Minister Leonardo Sarquis said.The government published a decree Tuesday in the official gazette ending its export permit policy. President Mauricio Macri had eliminated export taxes on corn and wheat as well as bureaucratic export permits since assuming office on Dec. 10.Export restrictions were implemented in the past decade under former presidents Nestor Kirchner Read more [...]