BUENOS AIRES, 17 June (IHT) – Thousands of Argentines poured into the streets Monday, banging pots and honking car horns to demand the government resume talks to end a 100-day farmers strike that has blocked grain exports and emptied supermarket shelves of food.

June 17 (Bloomberg) – Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said she will send a new export tax regime bill to Congress for debate and approval after the measure provoked three months of protests and food shortages.

BUENOS AIRES, 17 June (guardian.co.uk) – According to the Argentine Business Federation of Hotels and Restaurants the first three weeks of the blockades alone caused loses in the Argentine tourist industry of $24 million US. Thousands of jobs in the tourist industry are now at risk and many hotels and restaurants in Argentina face the [...]

June 16 (Bloomberg) – Argentine farmers intensified protests against higher export taxes, halting the flow of grains nationwide and threatening to prompt food shortages in supermarkets, after police arrested some of their leaders.

NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - Argentina’s sovereign bonds led emerging debt markets lower on Monday after farmers resumed a strike over higher export taxes during the weekend, casting uncertainty over the country’s economic outlook.

June 16 (Bloomberg) – Argentina’s stock market is losing foreign investors at the fastest pace since 2000 on concern accelerating inflation and a three-month farmers strike will curb economic growth and corporate profits.

BUENOS AIRES, 15 June (Chicago Tribune) – Che Guevara has finally come home–or at least a 10-foot-high bronze version has. Home is the Argentine port city of Rosario, where Ernesto “Che” Guevara was born to prosperous parents 80 years ago Saturday.

BUENOS AIRES, 15 June (Reuters) – A three-month standoff between Argentina’s government and farmers over a tax hike turned violent on Saturday when military police in riot gear used batons to try to clear roadblocks on a main highway.

BUENOS AIRES, June 14 (Xinhua) – Argentina’s truckers and farmers protesting the government’s tax increase for grain exports clashed with military police on Saturday as the authorities were trying to break up their road blockade.

BUENOS AIRES, 11 June (IHT) – Argentina’s Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a case brought by a rural governor who represents thousands of striking farmers who want new taxes on grain exports to be struck down. San Luis state Governor Alberto Rodriguez Saa says the March 11 hike in export taxes is unconstitutional because [...]