Tag: Argentina

Saturday, March 2nd 2013 - 08:08 UTC
Battling the Justice system, Cristina Fernandez main political battle this year

Reforming or democratizing the Argentine Justice system and the Supreme Court is forecasted to become the main political battle of this year, according to Rosendo Fraga a low profile Argentine historian and a sharp political analyst.
Saturday, March 2nd 2013 - 07:55 UTC
Argentina offers to pay ‘holdouts’ but on same terms as those who accepted debt restructuring

President Cristina Fernández defended on Friday her debt reduction policies and blasted the so-called vulture funds and multilateral organizations but also admitted Argentina was willing to pay holdouts on the same conditions that those who accepted the 2005 and 2010 debt restructuring.
Saturday, March 2nd 2013 - 07:46 UTC
“We want sovereignty over the Malvinas, but in peace”, Cristina Fernandez tells Congress

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez again called on the UK to hold talks over the sovereignty of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands during her address to Congress on Friday when she delivered the ‘State of the Nation’ speech and formally opened the 131st legislative sessions.
Friday, March 1st 2013 - 14:21 UTC
Markets fear Argentina could be en route to a ‘technical’ default

“We are representing a government, and governments will not be told to do things that fundamentally violate their principles” lawyer Jonathan Blackman told the Manhattan US appeals court.
Friday, March 1st 2013 - 00:17 UTC
Relations with Cristina Fernandez are “an impossible mission”, admits Mujica

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica admits that relations between Uruguay and Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez can be “an impossible mission”, but at the same time praised Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez “as the most generous head of state he has ever met”.
Friday, March 1st 2013 - 00:11 UTC
World's richest man says Argentina is great and predictable: “you can never get hold of dollars”

Mexico’s Carlos Slim, probably the world’s richest man according to Forbes has referred to Argentina with certain irony when he was asked about the current foreign currency restrictions and changing regulatory framework implemented by the government of President Cristina Fernandez.
Friday, March 1st 2013 - 00:07 UTC
Dengue: 200.000 cases confirmed in triple frontier: Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil

Paraguay, north Argentina and Brazil are in dengue alert following the confirmation of over 200.000 cases of the mosquito transmitted viral disease so far this year. The situation is considered worst that in previous years because besides a deep rise in the confirmed cases, the circulation of the four sero-types (strains) of dengue (1, 2, 3 and 4) has been detected, which means the disease keeps expanding.
Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 18:27 UTC
Jewish organization pledges to take Argentina/Iran accord to the Supreme Court

Argentina’s AMIA Jewish Community Centre President, Guillermo Borger, harshly criticized the approval of the Argentina-Iran accord, which occurred Thursday early morning after nearly 20 hours of debate, and warned that the institution analyzes resorting to court to stop it.
Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 14:13 UTC
Falklands’ situation attracts attention from China involved in Far East Asia islands dispute

Interest in the Falkland Islands’ dispute with Argentina, assimilated to the current Senkakus/Diayous islands situation in Asia apparently has not been limited to the quotes made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before the Japanese Parliament but also in another minor experience precisely in the Falklands and involving the Editor of the Penguin News, the local weekly newspaper of the Islands.
Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 06:13 UTC
Argentina urges ‘workable’ solution from US appeals court to dispute with holdout bondholders

Argentina's defence urged a US appeals court on Wednesday to come up with a “workable” solution to its long-running fight with so-called holdout bondholders, and assured the country will not pay an amount exceeding the one set in the debt-swaps.