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Car registration record

There were 112.607 new cars on the streets last January,  i.e. 8% more than the same month the previous year, confirmed the Vehicles Association.

Abel Bomrad, the entity’s head highlighted that last January’s registrations exceeded the previous twelve months and therefore completed 27 months of consecutive growth.

“We will not control salary rise.”, said the president

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ruled out that the Government is planning to set a ceiling on this year’s collective bargaining and said that unions must “carry on with their salary negotiations freely by taking corporate profit into account.”

Facing a possible increase in the tensions arisen during this year’s salary negotiations, the Head of State assured that “everyone will be able to carry on with their salary negotiations freely.”

“Some are intent on turning us into something we’re not. They say the Government is going to decide how much workers will make. I want you all to know that everyone will be able to negotiate freely,” she said on a live televised speech from the Government House.

In this context, the President reminded business leaders that “they have made a lot of money in the last few years, like never before” and reminded unionists of the need to have a profit margin in every sector when they presented their salary demands.

Fernández de Kirchner made these statements in a moment in which both the CGT and the CTA are claiming for an absence of roof or ceiling in this year’s collective bargaining.

She also criticised the supporters of non registered work, especially the gastronomic field.

However, the President announced that she would create a committee, which will be presided by Industry Minister Débora Giorgi who, along with Deputy Economy Minister Axel Kiciloff, will analyze each sector’s productivity and act as a referee when talks become stagnated.

“This committee will measure the increase in productivity and employment sector by sector. So when both sides get stuck in negotiations, we will have the information necessary to know whether salary demands will affect competitiveness or if they are above profit levels,” she said.

The SUBE card can be obtained through Internet.

Transport Secretary, Juan Pablo Schiavi, announced the website address to request the SUBE card, the only means of transport payment as from next February 10th, that will allow  preferential fares.

Once requested and approved , the card will be sent to the address mentioned in the form.

The website is  www.transporte.gob.ar, and users can fill in a form and receive the card by regular mail.

Mining project Famatina cancelled

The Canadian company Osisko announced their decision to withdraw from the project of Famatina due to the intense protests by local environmentalists.

"If there is no social permission to explore and develop the project Famatina, there will no be any project, said the company in a communiqué published in their own web page.

The piece of news arose a high expectation in the city of Alto Carrizal where  thousands of people have camped out to ban the entrance of Osisko trucks to the Famatina hill since last January 2,.

"The challenge is that Dengue does not enter the country", said Health Minister Manzur.

During  a work breakfast he shared with  Vice-President Amado Boudou, in the city of Puerto Iguazú, where he is heading the inauguration of a "Day of Intensified Actions for the Dengue Prevention and Control, the Nation Health Minister, Juan Manzur, asserted that "the great challenge" of Argentina in relation to the Dengue Fever is that "the virus does not enter the country" and stood out the importance of the prevention campaign and control of that illness.

In this regard, he pointed out that "at the moment there is not viral circulation in Argentina" but stressed that, in view of the growing number of cases registered in the region, mainly in Paraguay and Brazil, the country is under "alert state."