The Pumas wore number 11 shirts during their warm up. In a week where we have witnessed a massive terrorist attack on Paris and the passing of the great Jonah Lomu, sport has both acted as a vehicle for commemoration and as a means of escaping the gloom. Today in Twickenham it was no different, where Argentina wore number 11 shirts to remember the great Jonah Lomu and will take part in a game that will include some of the games top players. A small touch to remember the big man. Argentina Read more [...]

<!-- Summary Argentina is preparing to choose a new president, and the Kirchner-Fernandez clan's 12-year rule is coming to an end. Argentines will head to the polls Nov. 22 in a vote that will pit the ruling Front for Victory's Daniel Scioli against the more conservative Cambiemos coalition's Mauricio Macri. Results from the first voting round, which was held Oct. 25, showed Scioli holding a three-point lead in the race. Regardless Read more [...]

If you had asked Norberto Errico a month ago to place a bet on who would become Argentina's next president, he would have said Daniel Scioli, the hand-picked successor to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, had the best chances among all candidates. Errico is a staunch supporter of Mauricio Macri, the outgoing mayor of Buenos Aires and main opposition candidate, but felt little hope as presidential elections approached on October 25. All polls were giving Scioli, the outgoing governor of Read more [...]

The Argentine ministry said soybean sowings for 2015-16, pegged area at 20.6m hectares, a rise of 800,000 hectares year on year. The figure is above the USDA forecast of 20.0m hectares. It is also above the 19.8m hectares that the Buenos Aires grains exchange, has forecast. Read more [...]

HUMAHUACA, Argentina — When Mauricio Macri took the stage in this poor, neglected corner of northern Argentina on Thursday for his last campaign rally, he was no longer just the private-jet-flying Buenos Aires mayor with the fashion celebrity wife. Standing under an independence monument in work jeans, his sleeves rolled up, Macri assured the rural crowd that he would “work every day so that you can have a better life.” Earlier in the day, he had taken part in a ritual sundial ceremony at Read more [...]

Argentina stands on the verge of a seismic political shift this weekend. Opinion polls in the South American country show opposition leader Mauricio Macri holding a comfortable lead over the ruling Peronist party’s candidate Daniel Scioli heading into tomorrow’s final round of a presidential election. Should Macri manage to transform his lead in the polls into victory at the ballot box, he will become the first right-wing politician to be elected president in a country dominated by populists Read more [...]

CAPILLA DEL SENOR, Argentina — Marcelo Cervigni watches a huge tractor planting soybeans on his farm while flipping through smartphone photos of neighboring canola fields pummeled by a hail storm the night before.The damage will cost him about $80,000, a painful blow from nature but one he says is minor compared to the taxes and export restrictions put on farmers by Read more [...]

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This is arguably the greatest soccer rivalry of all-time. He must sit out one more global match. Meanwhile, Argentina fell to a 2-0 defeat to Ecuador before playing out a 0-0 stalemate with Paraguay. According to the stats gurus, Argentina dropped 4 of their last 6 games against Brazil, while drawing the other two. The postponement means both teams will have one day less to prepare for their next World Cup qualifiers, schedule to take place next Tuesday. This won’t be easy. However, Read more [...]

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Leading Argentine club San Lorenzo have taken a big step towards a return to their old Buenos Aires barrio home Boedoare after a long campaign by fans.The Saints have made an offer to French supermarket giant Carrefour to build on La Plata Avenue where their original Gasometro stadium stood, the club said on their website (www.sanlorenzo.com.ar).“Both parties have agreed on the technical (building) project, so all that remains to be settled is the economic matter to Read more [...]