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Montevideo, April 26th 2024 - 17:20 UTC

Argentina

  • Tuesday, April 16th 2013 - 05:55 UTC

    ‘The Argentine joke’ and Cristina Fernandez as Pinocchio, headlines of Brazil’s influential magazine Veja

    The child fiction marionette whose nose kept growing for not saying the truth, according to Veja

    One of Brazil’s most influential magazines and with the largest circulation, Veja, included a controversial piece which questions Argentina’s economic and social statistics than come under the responsibility of the non less famous Indec.

  • Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:10 UTC

    Mujica envoy to Buenos Aires to try and re-establish ‘normal contacts’ with Cristina Fernandez

    Apologies, a personal letter and waiting for Cristina Fernandez to answer the phone

    Uruguay’s Deputy Foreign minister Roberto Conde is scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires this week as part of President Jose Mujica’s administration efforts to rebuild bilateral relations with Argentina following his ‘coarse, jail-slang’ descriptions of president Cristina Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner, which were refuted as ‘unacceptable and denigrating”.

  • Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 05:39 UTC

    A view from the Falklands on Margaret Thatcher's legacy

    Falklands for ever grateful for liberation and her support after the war, said MLA Summers

    By Mike Summers (*)

    The reports on the reaction in the United Kingdom to the death of Baroness Thatcher have shown a clear contrast between those who approved of her policies and those that did not. This is understandable and is no doubt true of any prime minister. However, here in the Falkland Islands there is very little difference of opinion. Margaret Thatcher is held in high regard and with deep affection by Islanders, for she is someone to whom we owe much.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:50 UTC

    Mujica ‘deepest apologies’ to Cristina Fernandez for the ‘coarse, jail-language’

    The Uruguayan president also praised the Kirchner governments for their efforts in helping the dispossessed

    “My deepest apologies to those whom I might have hurt with my words in recent days” said Uruguayan president Jose Mujica in his daily broadcast on Thursday, the first public apology for the controversial expressions he used last week to refer to Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:39 UTC

    Argentina inflation congress index for March was 1.54% and 24.43% in last 12 months

    Spending related to the re-opening of schools and winter season clothing had an impact in March

    Despite the efforts from the administration of President Cristina Fernandez that brokered a price freeze for another two months with the main supermarket chains of Argentina, March inflation according to the average of private estimates stood at 1.54% and 24.43% in the last twelve months.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:35 UTC

    Argentina’s Antarctica flagship ‘Almirante Irizar’ remains ‘grounded’ in controversy

    The icebreaker has been in repairs for the last six years

    Six years ago this week Argentina’s icebreaker ‘Almirante Irizar’ and symbol of the country’s presence in Antarctica caught fire and was an almost loss. The government pledged to have the vessel back sailing in a couple of years but now it has surfaced that only 50% of repairs have been completed and the whole enterprise is involved in deep controversy.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 00:34 UTC

    The Iron Lady and I!

    Harold Briley (R) interviewing Margaret Thatcher in London as a Falklands’ anniversary reunion with David Tatham, a former governor of the Islands

    Mercopress correspondent Harold Briley knew Margaret Thatcher well, here reminiscing on fifty years of reporting her activities for half a century as a BBC Political, Latin America. Defence and East Europe Correspondent.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:37 UTC

    Cooperate and move on

    Falklanders celebrating the March 10/11 referendum

    By Fabian Bosoer and Federico Finchelstein (*) - In Argentina, the passing of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher brings memories of a seemingly irresoluble conflict. The conflict stands as a metaphor of a larger history of global misunderstandings.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:31 UTC

    Confidence behind the Falklands

    (*) Klaus Dodds is a professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and the editor of The Geographical Journal.

    By Klaus Dodds (*) - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s death does not represent an opportunity to resolve the long-standing sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands, or Islas Malvinas. If anything it is a reminder of how entrenched her legacy is to this particular aspect of British foreign and security policy.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 06:38 UTC

    When oil is involved, compromise is key

    Professor Terry Karl

    By Terry Karl (*) - The death of Margaret Thatcher will not change the necessity for or the timing of negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas issue. This political football has re-emerged repeatedly – regardless of the leaders in power – usually for domestic reasons in both Argentina and the United Kingdom. There is little political will for a settlement in the short-term on either side, especially now that offshore oil is publicly and definitively in the picture.