Stories for 2016

Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 09:05 UTC
Macri suffers a mild arrhythmia; back in Olivos after hospital checkup

Argentine President Mauricio Macri was taken to hospital on Friday to be evaluated by doctors after he suffered a “mild arrhythmia”, or irregular heartbeats, the government said.
Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 08:57 UTC
YPF and ENAP agree to increase gas and oil production off Magellan Strait

Argentina's YPF and Chile's Enap Sipetrol announced a joint project to expand the production of natural gas and crude from the offshore Magallanes Deposits, (PIAM), to the east of Magellan Strait Reserve. Representatives from Tierra del Fuego province and Magallanes Region, and from the two companies, attended the announcement ceremony.
Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 08:43 UTC
Argentina's main opposition political force names a shadow cabinet

Argentina's largest political movement, almost hegemonic, but currently in the opposition under the name of Justicialista Party (PJ), announced this week a shadow Cabinet, saying they will work hard to return to power after losing last year’s election to President Mauricio Macri.
Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 08:34 UTC
Lula da Silva blasts media for trying to hide the “coup” against Rousseff

Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva accused the media conglomerate Globo, the country’s largest, of censoring suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, adding that the interim government of Michel Temer is seeking to take away social rights and is “delivering” the nation’s oil for exploitation by foreign interests.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 19:40 UTC
Argentine hopes dashed on Falklands, Antarctica: Continental Shelf Commission refused to consider three major claims

In April 2009, Argentina submitted a formal claim to sovereignty over an exceptionally large continental shelf, across hundreds of miles of the sea-bed to the east and south of Argentina. This year, in March, newspapers around the world incorrectly reported the whole Argentine submission had been endorsed.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 19:34 UTC
Delimitation of the Argentine continental shelf

By Professor Peter Willetts, South Atlantic Council (*) - The Argentine Foreign Ministry announced on 28 March 2016 that it had gained international recognition of a claim to an exceptionally large continental shelf. But they were mistaken. Argentina had made a submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) on 21 April 2009 to claim sovereignty rights over the resources of the sea-bed.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 09:30 UTC
Peru's next president: no economic surprises with a strong dash of populism

Less than a decade after Peru imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori, voters will decide on Sunday whether to put his 41-year-old daughter back in the presidential palace where she once served as his first lady.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 09:13 UTC
Temer's administration confident of congressional support for its economic plans

President Michel Temer's will press ahead with ambitious plans to balance the budget, reform pensions and draw private money into the energy sector despite the loss of two ministers to a corruption scandal, his chief of staff said on Thursday.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 08:41 UTC
Brazil wants Venezuela out of the Mercosur rotating chair

Brazilian government would like to block Venezuela from taking the rotating presidency of Mercosur later this month, a move to further debilitate Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's power, according to Planalto sources close to interim president Michel Temer, who admitted the proposal has yet to be discussed with other members.
Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 06:40 UTC
Falklands are “my homeland”, with the right to freely choose our own future

The Falklands are a people, “my homeland”, with the right to freely choose our own future, as enshrined as leading principle in the UN Charter and safeguarded by the several covenants on civil and political rights, said Falklands' government representative Krysteen Ormond addressing the Pacific Regional Seminar of the C24, Special Decolonization Committee.