Argentina

• 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.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 01:40 UTC

  Argentina blasts PM Cameron ‘profound error’ of glorifying colonialism

  

  The Argentine Foreign Ministry strongly rebuked comments made by UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the Malvinas War and blasted the UK’s “persistent glorification of colonialism”.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 22:36 UTC

  Foreign Office condemns violent actions against UK embassy in Buenos Aires

  

  The Foreign Office condemned on Tuesday today what it called “violent actions of a minority” following Monday’s demonstration on the surroundings of the British Embassy located at the Recoleta neighbourhood, Buenos Aires City.