Argentina

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 06:10 UTC

  Venezuela to begin shipping Argentina 12 million barrel of fuel in May

  

  Venezuela will send Argentina 12 million barrels of diesel and fuel oil starting in May, an official from Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA said.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 22:12 UTC

  Pickets’ leader demanding extortion sum from Clarin captured on video

  

  Argentina’s most important daily Clarin has filed an extortion complaint against the leader of the pickets that have prevented the circulation of the newspaper by blocking distribution at the press plant and who was recorded in a tape asking for the equivalent of 2.2 million US dollars to end the attacks.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 09:42 UTC

  IMF begins to work in Argentina in the elaboration of a new cost of living index

  

  International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff arrived Monday at Argentina’s Statistics Bureau, Indec headquarters in Buenos Aires to meet with its chief Ana María Edwin and its Director Norberto Itzcovich and begin the elaboration of a new cost of living index.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 08:50 UTC

  The Malvinas issue is putting “UN to test” on disputes among its members

  

  Argentine ambassador Jorge Argüello said that “when we talk about Malvinas, we’re talking about the oldest sovereignty dispute of modern times. And Malvinas is putting United Nations to test for solving dispute among countries”.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 04:41 UTC

  President Rousseff’s foreign policy “will emphasize human rights (South and North)”

  

  The Brazilian government admitted for the first time that there is some profile changes in the foreign policy implemented by President Dilma Rousseff compared to her predecessor Lula da Silva.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 02:11 UTC

  Islamic extremists operating illegally in Triple Frontier area, says Brazilian magazine

  

  Islamic extremist groups such as Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas are illegally operating in the Triple Frontier area shared by Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, where they allegedly gather large amounts of money, recruit new militants and plan additional attacks, Brazilian magazine Veja denounced.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 20:27 UTC

  Malvinas voluntary soldier letter to be read in all Argentine schools as of 2012

  

  President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced that the letter written by a teacher and voluntary soldier in the 1982 Malvinas War conflict and which he sent to his pupils is to be read in all Argentine schools beginning 2012.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 20:09 UTC

  Unasur leaders letter to Ban Ki-moon in support of Argentina’s Malvinas claim

  

  Unasur (Union of South American Nations) leaders sent UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a letter dated April 2 in support of Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands Islands.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 19:42 UTC

  Visiting officials to Argentina will have pay homage at the Malvinas cenotaph

  

  Argentina will change its official protocol for visiting officials: besides the traditional flower wreath at the monument of General Jose de San Martin, visitors will also have to pay homage to the fallen in the Malvinas Islands at the cenotaph with their names at the Wall pages.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 19:36 UTC

  Malvinas are Argentine for ever and “we will never yield in our claim”

  

  “The Malvinas are Argentine for ever” and this government “will never yield in our claim” promised President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner during the main commemoration of the Malvinas war Fallen and Veterans Day in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz province.