Argentina

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:51 UTC

  “We were prepared for war with Chile”, not in Malvinas admits former Argentine military governor

  

  The former military governor of the Malvinas Islands during the Argentine occupation said that the negative outcome of the war for Argentina can only be attributed to “negligence and improvisation”.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:45 UTC

  Argentina picks a fight with Brazil oil giant Petrobras and revokes oil concession

  

  Brazilian oil giant Petrobras assured that it has complied with all terms of its Argentine Patagonia Neuquén province oil exploitation contract, following provincial governor Jorge Sapag's announcement of the termination of the concession contract in Veta Escondida area.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:41 UTC

  Argentina denies plan to acquire stake in YPF but provinces continue to rescind concessions

  

  Argentina’s Planning Minister Julio de Vido denied a report by Buenos Aires newspaper Clarin that the government is working on a plan to use state-controlled pensions Anses to buy a stake in oil corporation YPF, he said in a statement.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 14:29 UTC

  Memorandum for Lady Thatcher on Chile’s support during Falklands’ conflict

  

  It is a well known and admitted fact that the Chilean regime of General Augusto Pinochet provided very useful intelligence to the British effort to recover the occupied Falkland Islands in 1982.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 23:55 UTC

  Half of Argentines believe Malvinas conflict ‘will never be solved’, shows poll

  

  Half of Argentines believe that the Falklands/Malvinas conflict over which Argentina and Britain went to war 30 years ago, will not be solved, but a clear majority have no doubts about the sovereignty issue, according to a public opinion poll released on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 22:39 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez repudiates Monday attack against British embassy in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández condemned the attacks of the extreme left-wing organization Quebracho to the British embassy in Buenos Aires occurred last Monday, date of the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas War.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 22:33 UTC

  Jimmy Burns updated edition of how Argentina lost the Falklands war

  

  On the 30th anniversary of the invasion of the Falkland Islands Jimmy Burns launches an updated edition of “The Land that lost its Heroes” , How Argentina lost the Falklands war, which draws on unique access to military, diplomatic and intelligence sources in Argetina, the US and the UK plus other key players.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 08:42 UTC

  Mujica will try and convince Brazil to open Mercosur to third countries

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica arrives Thursday in neighbouring Brazil to discuss with his peer Dilma Rousseff trade expansion, productive and energy complementation and above all opening Mercosur to third countries in search of new markets.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 04:12 UTC

  Argentina announced heavy fine for mobile phone provider that left 16 million clients out of service

  

  The Argentine government said on Tuesday it will sanction heavily the local unit of Spanish Telecommunications Company Telefonica SA mobile phone service provider after a service disruption left more than 16 million clients without phone and data service for several hours.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 01:47 UTC

  YPF shares plummet on growing investors’ fear of Argentine government takeover

  

  Shares in Argentina's biggest energy company, YPF plummeted on Tuesday because of growing investor fear over a possible government plan to seize control of the oil firm.