Argentina

Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:49 UTC
Malvinas veterans ask for anthropologists to identify Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin cemetery

A Centre of Malvinas War Veterans and next of kin presented a petition before a federal court requesting the identification of Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin Cemetery in the Falkland Islands and the circumstances of their death during the South Atlantic conflict in 1982.
Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:10 UTC
Argentine Justice blind-trust rented apartments used as brothels

An Argentine Supreme Court justice faces a possible ethics investigation for renting out apartments used for prostitution. Justice Eugenio Zaffaroni has said he had no idea that six of his 15 rental properties were being used as brothels.
Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 06:58 UTC
CFK and Mujica underline ‘importance of dialogue’ and overcoming conflicts

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, underlined the importance of dialogue between Argentina and Uruguay which enable to overcome ‘conflicts’, while her Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica said that the “good neighbours” policy is the only way forward and a win-win situation for both sides.
Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 22:28 UTC
Is Argentina a safe country for tourists?, questions the French media

Following the killing of two French young women tourist-packers in the northern Argentine province of Salta, --with criminals still at large--, the issue of security, safety and crime in Argentina has been widely exposed in the European and Unite States media, particularly the so-called ‘express kidnapping”.
Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 22:26 UTC
A man arrested in connection to the weapon used in the double murder in Salta

A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the double murder case in Salta, where two French tourists were killed in the area of la Quebrada San Lorenzo last Friday, a Salta official informed.
Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 07:14 UTC
Salaries in Argentina averaged a 27.6% increase in the last twelve months

Salaries in Argentina averaged an increase of 27.6% in the last twelve months to June, boosted mainly by agreements in the private sector, reported Monday the country’s National Statistics Institute, Indec.
Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 07:10 UTC
Timerman ‘appalled’ by ‘heinous’ killing of French tourists in north Argentina

Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman sent a letter to his French counterpart, Alain Juppé, in which he expressed being “appalled” over the killing of two French tourists in the Salta province.
Monday, August 1st 2011 - 22:51 UTC
Uruguay/Argentina summit will address canal dredging and power transmission

The dredging of the Uruguay River and access to the Martin Garcia canal as well as importing power from Paraguay are the two main issues of the agenda to be addressed by Presidents Jose Mujica and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner when they meet Tuesday in Buenos Aires.
Monday, August 1st 2011 - 20:40 UTC
Polar front freezes Argentina and Uruguay with below zero temperatures

A polar front advancing over Argentina and Uruguay dragged the thermometers Monday morning in yet another freezing day in the south of the continent. Below zero temperatures were registered in several locations reaching minus 16,2 Celsius in Malargüe, Mendoza Province, according to Argentina’s Meteorological Service (SMN).
Monday, August 1st 2011 - 20:30 UTC
French women killed in Argentina described as brilliant students in Latam affairs

Argentine police detained for questioning a local horse renter in relation to the brutal murder of two French tourists – Moumni Hour and Cassandre Bouvier – found dead with gunshot wounds on Friday at a hiking trail in Quebrada de San Lorenzo, Salta province, 1600 Km northwest of Buenos Aires.