Argentina

• Sunday, April 15th 2012 - 04:34 UTC

  Obama and CFK leave trade issues aside and want to continue as ‘friends and partners’

  

  President Cristina Fernández and US President Barack Obama agreed to work upon trade differences “which in no way conform the central aspects of the bilateral relationship” during their Saturday afternoon half hour meeting with an “open agenda” at the 6th Summit of the Americas hosted by Colombia.

• Sunday, April 15th 2012 - 03:41 UTC

  The 1964 “Made in Brazil” coup and US contingency support-plan if the plot stalled

  

  Do friendly countries make contingency plans for landing Marines in the big cities of other friendly countries? Even if it’s only to be done in a worthy cause—like supporting a military takeover of a democratically-elected government? During the recent trip to Washington of Brazilian President Dilma Roussief there was a public effort by both sides to “accent the positive” but perhaps there should have been some hard questions behind closed doors.

• Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 20:30 UTC

  Cruise sent to collect passengers from stranded M/V Plancius docked in South Georgia

  

  The Panama flagged cruise vessel M/V Ushuaia is expected to arrive early next week in South Georgia to pick up the stranded 114 passengers and crew of a similar small cruise M/V Plancius which after experiencing serious propulsion trouble took shelter at King Edward Point Research Station in Grytviken.

• Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:48 UTC

  YPF dispute: Argentina runs the risk of becoming an ‘international pariah” warns Spain

  

  Spanish officials warned Argentina on Friday that the country risks becoming “an international pariah” if it follows through on its threats to take control of Spanish-owned energy company Repsol's majority stake in its YPF unit.

• Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:32 UTC

  “Argentina: shame on you”; Editorial from Canada’s Globe and Mail

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has said it is “absurd” for the British government, which has enjoyed sovereignty over the Falkland Islands for 180 years, to maintain its claim from an ocean away “when these Islands are part of our maritime platform.” Applying the logic of Ms. Kirchner, Canada should be stoking international tensions in an effort to annex Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. And perhaps Greenland.

• Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:21 UTC

  Falklands veteran Royal Marine and yomper, feels Falklands are well defended

  

  Retired Royal Marine Brigadier Ian Gardiner, who commanded a Marine company in the 1982 Falklands war, thinks a new Argentine attack on the Islands is unlikely.

• Friday, April 13th 2012 - 07:37 UTC

  Argentine cabinet and governors insist energy self-sufficiency is the goal

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández met with governors members of the Federal Organization of Hydrocarbon-producing States (OFEPHI) on Thursday evening and later in a flurry of television appearances ministers said energy self sufficiency was the target.

• Friday, April 13th 2012 - 07:33 UTC

  Argentine president avoids YPF and talks about chocolates and beef export levies

  

  On the day Argentina was expected to make a major announcement referred to the oil industry and the ongoing dispute with Spain’s Repsol-YPF oil and gas corporation, president Cristina Fernandez surprised everybody by talking about chocolates, the yerba infusion and meat export taxes.

• Friday, April 13th 2012 - 07:24 UTC

  “Public interest” draft bill taking over 50.01% of YPF in Argentine congress

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez has sent a draft bill to her lawmakers in Congress that would allow the government to take a controlling stake in local oil and gas giant, YPF SA at the expense of its two largest shareholders, newspaper Clarin reported Thursday.

• Friday, April 13th 2012 - 03:03 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez and Obama will hold bilateral meeting in Colombia

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez leaves on Friday for Colombia to attend the two-day sixth Summit of the Americas where she is scheduled to hold a meeting with President Barack Obama on request from the White House, according to the Executive press office in Buenos Aires.