Argentina

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.
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.