Argentina

• Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 17:32 UTC

  Buenos Aires city mayor challenges CFK by launching ‘a price index audited’ by the civil society.

  

  Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri launched on Friday a price index to be “permanently audited by the civil society” in Argentina’s capital, in a move that steps up the pressure on the inflation controversy surrounding President Cristina Fernandez administration.

• Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 17:27 UTC

  Argentina insists with self-sufficiency in oil production in four years

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández administration agreed with oil-producing provinces and unions from the sector to strictly control the levels of exploration, production, the amount of equipment in use and the total number of jobs in each of the oil fields across the country, with the goal of reaching hydrocarbon self-sufficiency within four years.

• Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 03:38 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez with her mind set on October elections launches the 500 frozen-prices list

  

  The Argentine government has made public the list of the 500 products with ‘frozen prices’, until next October when mid term elections are scheduled. Consumers can check the information online at the website of the state news agency Télam and with the sites of several of the main supermarkets of the country.

• Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 02:29 UTC

  Gibraltar claims C24 is ‘failing miserably’ in its task of decolonising territories

  

  Gibraltar veteran Minister Joe Bossano launched a scathing attack on to the record of the UN Committee of Decolonization or C24 claiming it is consistently falling to do the work it is tasked with: decolonising the territories on its list.

• Friday, May 31st 2013 - 07:04 UTC

  Falklands fines Korea and Taiwan companies for straddling in Argentine waters

  

  Falkland Islands Government Director of Natural Resources John Barton said that he is confident that there won’t be any repetition in the future of recent offences by companies licensed to fish in Falklands waters.

• Friday, May 31st 2013 - 06:41 UTC

  Iran/Argentina memorandum involved in a further controversy

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman met on Thursday with Interpol top officials and said he received ‘very strong support’ for the memorandum signed with Iran, which includes the questioning of those allegedly involved in the 1994 attack on the Jewish organization AMIA in Buenos Aires that killed 85 and left dozens injured.

• Friday, May 31st 2013 - 02:14 UTC

  Argentine cabinet surprise shuffle: Puricelli to Security and Rossi to Defence

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez shuffled her cabinet appointing Defence minister Arturo Puricelli at the Security ministry and Agustin Rossi until now head of the government’s block in the Lower House, in Defence. Removed Nilda Garré is to be appointed as the new ambassador before the Organization of American States, OAS.

• Wednesday, May 29th 2013 - 23:00 UTC

  Argentina: The volcano has the last word

  

  With the imminent eruption of Copahue volcano, the governor of Neuquén, Jorge Sapag, said that, “the volcano will have the last word”, and has asked to wait 72 hours, as the specialists recommended, not to give rise to false expectations amongst the evacuees.

• Wednesday, May 29th 2013 - 20:37 UTC

  Copahue volcano eruption imminent

  

  After the Copahue volcano on the Neuquén provincial Andean border with Chile began spewing smoke due to an increase in seismic activity, a red alert was issued by Chilean authorities ordering the full evacuation of an estimated 3,000 people.

• Wednesday, May 29th 2013 - 20:21 UTC

  Streetview Buenos Aires

  

  By Albert Canil (*) - As Wrong As Rain - Yesterday saw Argentines fearful of a sequel to the tragic flood that took more than 54 lives in early April. For once weathermen would have chosen to be wrong but night overtook day and the heavens opened: in some neighbourhoods the rain gauges mercilessly read more than 52 mm of rainfall between 11:30 and 2 pm.