Saga Pearl and Amsterdam with 1,556 tourists officially inaugurated the 2004/05 cruise season in Buenos Aires which according to Argentine sources will represent over 53,000 visitors.
The Poppy Appeal in Argentina was officially launched at an event held at the British Embassy in Buenos Aires on Friday, October 29.
Argentine and British military concluded Sunday search and rescue exercises in the South Atlantic in the vicinity of Falklands/Malvinas waters according to reports in the Buenos Aires press.
The four Mercosur member countries are currently discussing reforms to the 1994 Ouro Preto Protocol, a milestone in the building of the block but which lately has been seen as an impediment for a closer knit organization and achievement of further expansion.
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Five stars Sheraton for Ushuaia; Sky airline for competition and reciprocity; Unemployment in Magallanes, 8,5%.; Punta Arenas celebrates Chilean Antarctica Day; Argentina opens cinema in Antarctica.
Argentine Foreign Affairs Secretary Rafael Bielsa confirmed this Sunday significant Chinese investments in energy, railways and infrastructure, as well as South Korean financial support, the first credit since Argentina defaulted at the end of 2001.
History was made during Saturday's Falkland Islands Defence Force anniversary celebration marking one hundred and fifty years since the first volunteer force was formed here.
A celebration is being hosted by the Defence Force this weekend, in recognition of 150 years of voluntary military service in the Falklands.
During the first nine months international air traffic in Chile increased 6,7% totaling 2,7 million passengers compared to the same period a year before.
A new documentary thick with tales of spies and secretive submarine landings traces how Nazis smuggled gold and cash from Europe to Argentina, a notorious safe haven for war criminals after World War Two.