Stories for June 12th 2012

Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:25 UTC
Argentina blasts UK arrogance and “end of war celebration” in Falklands

Argentine Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli said on Monday that the United Kingdom maintains its “arrogance and haughtiness” over the Malvinas sovereignty issue as the 30th anniversary of the end of the war approaches.
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:09 UTC
C24 chair says Falklands issue is over sovereignty, not exactly decolonization

The UN Special Committee on Decolonisation launched on Monday a new round of sessions with much attention focused on the Falklands/Malvinas dispute since Argentine president Cristina Fernandez next Thursday will become the first head of state to address the C24.
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:04 UTC
UK reply to Argentina on Falklands/Buenos Aires flights and fisheries next week

Foreign Office minister for Latin American affairs Jeremy Browne anticipated that next week there will be a “substantial reply” to Argentina’s proposal for three monthly flights between Buenos Aires and the Falklands and the resumption of negotiations over fisheries conservation in the South Atlantic, but in noy way linked to any sovereignty discussions.
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:00 UTC
Massive outburst of support for Chavez as he registered for October 7 presidential election

Thousands of supporters thronged the streets of Caracas Monday to join cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as he registered to seek re-election amid ongoing concerns about his health.
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 08:53 UTC
A museum paying homage to those who fought on both sides

Over the last thirty years the National Malvinas War museum of Argentina in the city of Oliva in the province of Cordoba, has become the country’s largest and most important of its sort
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 08:46 UTC
Argentine May inflation 1.71% and 23.85% in twelve months, according to private estimates

Argentine opposition lawmakers unveiled on Monday the inflation index based on the analysis of nine private agencies, which in May reached 1.71%. The unofficial consumer price index has accumulated 23.85% in the last twelve months, twice the volume registered by the Indec national statistics bureau.
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 08:41 UTC
Maximo, probably the most influential advisor of Cristina Fernandez, but king of the lows profile

Maximo Kirchner, 36, since the death of his father Nestor Kirchner in October 2010 in the main support of his mother both affectionately and politically, although his political aspirations are not well known because of his very low profile.
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 08:25 UTC
Argentine president son recovering from knee surgery; mother next to him

Máximo Kirchner, 36, son of the President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is recovering from cleansing minor surgery for a septic arthritis of his right knee after he was hospitalized in the early hours of Monday at the Austral Hospital in the Greater Buenos Aires.
Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 08:19 UTC
“The more restrictions on the US dollar, the more people distrust the Argentine peso”

Argentine former economy minister Domingo Cavallo assured that had the restrictions to buy US currency not been applied by the local Government “people would be flocking to buy dollars.”