Argentina

Food commodity prices have moderated across the board in response to falling oil prices through most of the summer. [more]

Argentine agricultural groups are considering striking to protest price caps. [more]

Paraguayan President-elect Fernando Lugo has the chance to alter Latin American geopolitics with his plans to change Paraguay's relationship with Brazil. [more]

Argentina will raise electricity prices for residential consumers by an average of 21 percent, Argentine Planning Minister Julio De Vido announced July 30. [more]

Argentina is moving to renationalize the troubled Aerolineas Argentinas -- which will add to the government's economic woes. [more]

The following are internal Stratfor documents produced to provide high-level guidance to our analysts. These documents are not forecasts, but rather a series of guidelines for understanding and evaluating events, as well as suggestions on areas for focus. [more]

The Argentine Senate did not pass a bill enforcing high export taxes on agricultural goods, though the bill was backed by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. [more]

The rejection by Argentina's Senate of an agricultural export tax has widespread implications for the South American country. [more]

An emotional tie-breaker ends the political gridlock in Argentina over highly controversial export taxes on staple foodstuffs. After four months of protests, the farmers have won this round — but is there more drama to come? [more]

Argentina has doubled the price of the natural gas it sells to Chile, passing on the costs of a declining industry to its neighbor. This will only be a short-term fix, however, as Chile looks forward to a future of diversified natural-gas sourcing on the global market. [more]

Argentina is now relying on natural gas imports -- a development that will threaten the government's ability to meet the population's most basic needs. [more]

The following are internal Stratfor documents produced to provide high-level guidance to our analysts. These documents are not forecasts, but rather a series of guidelines for understanding and evaluating events, as well as suggestions on areas for focus. [more]

The following are internal Stratfor documents produced to provide high-level guidance to our analysts. These documents are not forecasts, but rather a series of guidelines for understanding and evaluating events, as well as suggestions on areas for focus. [more]

The Argentine congress has begun debating solutions to the ongoing agricultural crisis. The leading idea is to subsidize small farmers in compensation for high export taxes. [more]

Truckers in Argentina have become involved in the dispute between the country's farmers and the government. Their involvement will only increase tensions in the country. [more]

The U.N. Secretary-General has warned that failure to address the global food crisis properly could lead to economic, social and political crises around the world. In some areas, political aftershocks are already apparent, as a wrap-up of recent events in Latin America indicates. [more]

Argentine farmers have begun their third strike in less than three months and plan to block food exports for four days. [more]

Amid economic troubles, Argentine Economy Minister Martin Lousteau became the first to defect from President Cristina Kirchner's Cabinet. [more]

The global trend of unrest over high food prices –- especially the price of grain –- has far-reaching implications. [more]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on April 9 announced the nationalization of steel giant Ternium Sidor, which could degrade Venezuela's relationship with Argentina. [more]