Archive for enero 14th, 2012

El ex titular del INADI de La Rioja habló desde la cárcel y dice que es “inocente”

Marcelo Lucero está acusado de haber prendido fuego en octubre pasado a su mujer embarazada. Desde el Servicio Penitenciario riojano cuenta la versión de los hechos y dice que su ex mujer “no se podía controlar, era muy celosa y obsesionada”. El ex titular del INADI de La Rioja, Marcelo Lucero, quien se encuentra detenido [...]

Científico descuatizado: contactarán a familiares para confirmar su identidad

Mientras se intentan determinar las causas de muerte de Donald Brooks, el científico hallado desmembrado en Santiago del Estero, la embajada británica se pondrá en contacto con sus familiares para confirmar su identidad mediante un cotejo de ADN. La Embajada Británica se contactará con familiares de Donald Brooks, el científico hallado desmembrado en una zona [...]

Es la Messicueva

¿Alguna vez te preguntaste dónde guardaba Leo todos sus premios? En el museo propio que tiene en el tercer piso de su casa en Castelldefels, Barcelona. Tres balones de oro, réplicas de títulos, distinciones individuales… Traigan vitrinas, que premios sobran. Ya no hay lugar para la imaginación. Si alguna fantaseaste o imaginaste cómo es el [...]

Brazil warns it is ready to respond to Argentina’s new trade restrictions

Brazil’s government is ready to respond to Argentine trade restrictions introduced this week but will evaluate the impact of the measures before making any retaliatory moves, trade officials said Friday. Argentina this week said that beginning in February it will require all importers to file an online affidavit with its tax agency, Afip, before importing [...]

Bolivia ratifies complete support for Argentina’s Malvinas sovereignty claim

Bolivian president Evo Morales said the Malvinas Islands are Argentine and gave full support to his peer Cristina Fernandez siding with Mercosur in the dispute with the UK over the South Atlantic Islands sovereignty and the latest decision to bar all Falklands flagged vessels from regional ports. “The Malvinas are Argentine. That is why we [...]

Construction costs climb 17.3% in 2011, Indec

Construction-related costs registered a 17.3 percent increase in 2011, after closing the last month of the year 1.2 percent higher, according to the Indec national statistics bureau. The figure reported in December was a consequence of a 5.4 percent increase in the general expenditures sector, 1 percent in materials and 0.6 percent in workers, the [...]

Moreno to be one of supervisors for new control on imports

Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno is to form part of the group of officials who will supervise the new import controls published in the Official Gazette today by the Interior Commerce Secretary. The new measures make it compulsory to declare in advance all import operations under oath. The measure will be put into effect from [...]

Gov’t considers applying ‘differential’ bus and train rates

Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi reiterated today that the Government will not increase the price of bus and train fares by a large amount, but further admitted that they are looking at applying “differential rates” for those with less economic resources. In addition to this, the Transport Secretary said “the SUBE card will be the [...]

Murdered teacher’s husband arrested in BA province

Daniel Sfeir, husband of murdered teacher Silvia Prigent, was finally arrested by police officials at his home. San Isidro Judge Ricardo Costa finally issued the arrest of Sfeir for Prigent’s murder after new evidence was uncovered regarding the case. The school teacher’s body was found in a field last week by police. After Costa issued [...]

Inflation reaches 9.5% in 2011, Indec

The inflation accumulated a 9.5 percent increase in 2011 compared to the volume registered in 2010, according to the Indec national statistics bureau. The Consumer Prices Index (IPC) also stated that the inflation rose 0.8 percent in December. The final figures are considerably lower than the ones reported by the “Congress Index,” which had reported [...]

Street peddlers lift Corrientes Av blockade

Street peddlers lifted the Corrientes Avenue blockade they staged for the third consecutive day, to protest against the City Government’s eviction orders, while artisans set a fair outside the City Legislature to claim their rights to set their selling spots in Florida pedestrian walkway. Metropolitan Police officers patroled the area to stop the illegal vendors [...]