Argentina

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:13 UTC

  Federal Judge says Argentine government must guarantee “free circulation”

  

  An Argentine federal Judge confirmed that the government should “guarantee the free circulation” of the bridge that links the Argentine city of Gualeguaychú with the Uruguayan city Fray Bentos.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:10 UTC

  US dollar breaks through the 4 pesos barrier in Buenos Aires informal market

  

  The new foreign currency controls that begun to be applied this week in Argentina had a marginal incidence in formal operations Tuesday, but in the parallel informal market the US dollar, under strong demand shot past the 4 Pesos milestone.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:05 UTC

  Chilean ambassador in Argentina resigns for downplaying Pinochet regime

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera accepted on Tuesday the resignation of the Ambassador in Argentina, Miguel Otero Lathrop, who had assured during an interview last Sunday that most Chileans did not suffer Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. His comments triggered a barrage of criticisms both in Chile and Argentina.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 01:32 UTC

  OAS assembly gives full support to Argentina’s Malvinas claim

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) ratified support of the Argentine demand to seek dialogue with the United Kingdom in order to find a peaceful and definitive solution to the ‘colonialism situation’ of the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia, and South Sandwich and the surrounding maritime areas.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  PM Cameron reiterates full support for Falklands’ freedom and self determination

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated the support of his government for the freedom and self determination of the Falkland Islands, in a letter addressed to members of the Islands’ Legislative Assembly which was made public on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 05:39 UTC

  Argentina imposes strict rules on foreign-exchange trading

  

  Argentina tightened foreign-exchange rules Monday in a step it says is aimed at limiting money laundering and tax evasion, but which most observers say it is geared to restrict the flow of dollars.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 05:35 UTC

  Argentina’s head of fisheries flatly denies “uncontrolled hake catches”

  

  Argentina’s head of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Under Secretariat Norberto Yauhar openly denied the alleged collapse of hake (Merluccius hubbsi) fishery in the South Atlantic and claims of absence of control measures and management to ensure its sustainability.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 01:17 UTC

  Growing number of Argentines optimistic about the economy in 2011

  

  An increasing number of Argentines have growing expectations about their country’s economy well into 2011 when presidential elections are scheduled to take place, according to a public opinion poll published this weekend in the Buenos Aires press.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:27 UTC

  Argentine top magistrate cautions pickets blocking bridge leading to Uruguay

  

  Argentina’s Supreme Court president Ricardo Lorenzetti said that the blockade by Argentine pickets impeding, since 2006 crossing to neighbouring Uruguay, to protest the construction of a pulp mill, is “unsustainable”.

• Saturday, June 5th 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Argentina’s commercial hake fishery has “two years left”

  

  Over the last 20 years abundance of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) has declined 80% in the Southwest Atlantic as a result of over-fishing, claims Argentina’s Fundación Vida Silvestre, Wild Life Foundation, (FVSA).