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Montevideo, May 19th 2024 - 01:28 UTC

Tag: Argentina

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 02:06 UTC

    Despite invitation Argentine ambassador will not attend Lady Thatcher’s funeral

    The Foreign Office excluded Cristina Fernandez from the guests’ list but included Ambassador Alicia Castro

    Argentine ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro has declined the official invitation to attend Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, Downing Street reported. Lady Thatcher was Britain’s PM when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands and she sent a task force to successfully recover them in June 1982 after a 74-day armed conflict.

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 01:54 UTC

    Argentine ambassador presents her letters of credence to President Obama

    Ambassador Nahón is an economist and an expert in trade affairs

    The Argentine ambassador to the United States, Cecilia Nahón, presented on Tuesday her letters of credence to President Barack Obama, who said he hoped both countries would remain committed to a fruitful joint work with President Cristina Fernández in the G20.

  • 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”.

  • 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 - 06:42 UTC

    Maradona launches “Cristina 2015” re-re-election in Caracas next to Maduro

    The football legend with the red Chavista shirt and the message

    Argentina’s football legend Diego Maradona was present on Thursday afternoon in down-town Caracas at the closing campaign rally of Venezuelan incumbent presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro but with a special touch: a red t-shirt promoting the re-re-election of Cristina Fernandez in 2015.

  • 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 - 15:17 UTC

    Gibraltar represents a road map

    By Jose C. Moya (*) - The recent referendum’s near unanimous support for British rule seems to leave little space for negotiations. The passing of Thatcher -- who was seen as a liberator by most Islanders -- will, if anything, harden their position by reviving memories of the war. And the position of the Argentine population is equally hard, if the recent revival and political use of the issue by the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is any indication.

  • 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.