Argentina

• Tuesday, April 10th 2012 - 06:54 UTC

  Uruguay will enjoy “positive discrimination” in bilateral trade with Argentina

  

  Argentina and Uruguay presidents Cristina Fernandez and Jose Mujica agreed Monday evening to discuss their trade differences in the framework of Mercosur and promote “positive discrimination” measures for Uruguayan exports to help compensate the restrictions imported to all imports by the Argentine government.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2012 - 05:40 UTC

  Repsol CEO in Argentina trying to prevent YPF takeover by the government

  

  Repsol's chairman Antonio Brufau has asked for a meeting with officials from the Argentine government, which investors fear could seize control of the Spanish oil major's unit in Argentina, YPF.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2012 - 05:12 UTC

  Argentine factory begins production of Pampa training aircraft with German help

  

  Argentina’s government controlled Aircraft Factory, Fadea, plans a production of 100 Pampa II training and combat aircraft at its plant in Cordoba in association with the German company Grob Aircraft AG, it was announced.

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 06:20 UTC

  Argentine government in full force support Vice-president accused of embezzlement

  

  The Argentine government came out in full force over the weekend to back Vice-President Amado Boudou after he was accused of embezzlement in what become known as the “Ciccone Case”.

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 06:17 UTC

  FT says UK trying to collect £ 45m Argentina used in the Falklands’ conflict

  

  According to a piece from the Financial Times Britain is chasing £45m of debt owed by the Argentine government that was lent to the military Junta in 1979 and used, in part, to buy weapons that were later used during the Falkland Islands in 1982.

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 05:39 UTC

  Wild Viking being held in Puerto Williams

  

  Norwegian rogue yachtsman Jarle Andhøy, 34, along with four other crew members on the 54-foot yacht steel yacht Nilaya - who were arrested last week by the Chilean Navy - are being held at the Chilean Naval base in Puerto Williams, after apparently after giving a false name for the vessel when hailed by the Chilean Navy according to press reports from Chile and New Zealand over the weekend.

• Saturday, April 7th 2012 - 07:07 UTC

  Obama administration sides with Argentina in case filed by ‘vulture funds’

  

  The US has sided with Argentina and asked a federal appeals court to reverse lower-court rulings stemming from bond holders’ attempts to collect on judgments against the Argentine Republic.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 23:16 UTC

  United Airlines inaugurates daily non-stop service between Newark and Buenos Aires

  

  United Airlines will begin daily non-stop service between its hub at Newark Liberty International Airport and Buenos Aires, Argentina's, Ministro Pistarini (Ezeiza) International Airport on April 6.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 23:06 UTC

  Argentina’s main grains export hub blocked by grounded vessel

  

  Tens of cargo ships are delayed in Argentina because a grain-bulk carrier has grounded in the Parana River, 150 kilometres south of the city of Rosario, which is the country’s grains and oil seeds hub.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:57 UTC

  Furious Chile demands an apology from Argentina’s former military governor of the Falklands

  

  The Chilean political system reacted angrily and demanded official apologies from the Argentine government following statements from former General Mario Menendez who said “Chileans behaved as pigs during the Malvinas war” three decades ago.