Argentina

• 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 - 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.”

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 05:47 UTC

  Opinion poll shows support for Cristina Fernandez sliding significantly

  

  The image of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and the approval of her government have fallen significantly in June compared to last October when she was re-elected for a second four year mandate.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 03:28 UTC

  Argentina claims Falklands and slams UK for ‘illegal exploitation of natural resources’

  

  Ahead of a week of intense diplomatic exchanges and on the Day of the Affirmation of the Argentine Rights Over the Malvinas, Islands and Antarctic Sector, the Argentine Government once again ratified its claim over the Islands’ sovereignty and questioned the UK over the “illegal exploitation of their natural resources” and the “increased militarization of the South Atlantic region.”

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 05:13 UTC

  Middle class Argentines protest with pots and pans against corruption, crime, inflation and the dollar clamp

  

  For the third night in ten days angry Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires and other major cities banging pots and pans to protest corruption, rampant crime and insecurity, inflation and the dollar clamp in the midst of an economy that is showing clear signals of exhaustion and growing questions on the current course of affairs.