Argentina

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 22:52 UTC

  Mercosur tourism industry had a turnover of 15 billion dollars in 2011

  

  The Mercosur tourism industry had a turnover of 15 billion dollars last year with the Brazilians providing the largest number of tourists to the group’s associates, according to a report from neighboring countries representatives presented at the International Tourism Bourse in Berlin.

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 22:17 UTC

  First line diplomat and arms control expert next UK ambassador in Argentina

  

  The UK Foreign Office informed on Friday that John Freeman has been appointed new Ambassador to Argentina to replace outgoing Ambassador Shan Morgan, who has held the post since 2008.

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  Argentine government and YPF clash over the company’s dividends policy

  

  The relationship between the Argentine Government and the Spanish Repsol-YPF oil company continues to strain in spite of recent announcements and contacts to try and cool the situation.

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 06:11 UTC

  Yes, they have no bananas (in Falkland and in Bs. Aires)

  

  FOR the Falklands to be short of bananas as a result of Argentina’s bully-boy blockade and trade restrictions is understandable. For Argentina to run out of bananas you’d think would be impossible in a sub-continent which grows millions of them. But a few weeks ago, they had no bananas in Buenos Aires shops. Only the incompetent Argentines could achieve the impossible. It’s not just bananas they are slipping up on.

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 05:59 UTC

  Anti British-Falklands incidents in south Argentina with UK flagged cargo vessel

  

  Serious incidents broke out on Thursday in the Argentine Patagonia port of Comodoro Rivadavia when a British flagged cargo vessel docked to load cement and were met with anti British-Falklands protestors.

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 03:12 UTC

  Argentine ‘non official’ February inflation: 1.65% and 22.75% in twelve months

  

  February inflation in Argentina according to an average of private agencies which is released monthly by members of the Congressional opposition was 1.65%, climbing to 22.75% in the last twelve months. The official Indec inflation is scheduled to be released next March 13.

• Thursday, March 8th 2012 - 23:51 UTC

  Put the islanders first: key to the Malvinas/Falklands dispute

  

  By Robert Cox (*) - Charleston, South Carolina - The misbegotten war over the Islands that need not be named has reversed the concept that war is a continuation of politics or diplomacy by other means. The conflict continues in political and diplomatic terms in Argentina and in Britain. Lost in the clamour is the key to the solution: the interests of the native Islanders.

• Thursday, March 8th 2012 - 09:35 UTC

  BBC documents reveal French double role during the Falklands conflict

  

  In his memoirs, former UK Defence Secretary Sir John Nott describes France as Britain's “greatest ally” during the Falklands War. However, formerly secret papers and other evidence seen by the BBC show that was not the full story. Before the war, France sold Argentina's military junta five Exocet missiles.

• Thursday, March 8th 2012 - 06:42 UTC

  Spanish King rings Cristina Fernandez to cool YPF taking over campaign

  

  Spain’s Foreign Secretary Manuel Garcia Margallo admitted there is great concern in Madrid over the situation of Repsol-YPF in Argentina, which is questioning the oil corporation for not having invested sufficiently or paid sufficient taxes, and revealed that King Juan Carlos has been on the phone with President Cristina Fernandez.

• Thursday, March 8th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  Argentine veterans insist with identifying remains of 123 comrades buried in Falklands

  

  Argentine veterans from the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas war with Britain reiterated on Wednesday a request for the identification of 123 unknown comrades buried in the Falkland Islands.