Argentina

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 05:59 UTC

  Argentine Congress paralyzed; senators summoned by the press

  

  Argentine Vice-President and Senate head Julio Cobos published a paid ad in the Monday edition of a Buenos Aires newspaper, where he summons those senators who had been absent to last week's session as a way of exerting pressure for next Wednesday round of debate in the Upper House.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 05:55 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner dream comes true: half an hour with President Obama

  

  US President Barack Obama will meet Tuesday with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit being held in Washington. According to the White House, Obama will gather for roughly a half hour with the Argentine Head of State at 4:00 pm local time.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 00:25 UTC

  Washington Post ad calls on Mrs Kirchner to cancel coal plant in Patagonia

  

  In an attempt to take advantage of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's visit to the US (CFK is attending the Nuclear Security Summit), Greenpeace has posted a paid announcement on The Washington Post newspaper as a way to protest against the construction of a coal-fuelled power plant in Río Turbio, Santa Cruz province.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:25 UTC

  Argentine Central Bank props the Peso with Euro operations

  

  Argentina has been forced to buy Euros in the local market to control the exchange rate of the US dollar relative to the Peso in a complicated move but necessary to avoid the risk of having additional Central Bank funds seized in New York.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:03 UTC

  Patagonia indigenous had highly organized, dynamic and hierarchical society

  

  Argentine and Spanish researchers have shown that indigenous societies in Patagonia, the southernmost region of the Earth inhabited by humans over the past 13,000 years, were not static and marginal as had always been thought, but in fact had high levels of social organisation.

• Saturday, April 10th 2010 - 04:44 UTC

  Argentina announces debt-swap and invites US corporations to invest

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, speaking before the United States Chamber of Commerce confirmed that the debt-swap is to be launched between Wednesday and Thursday of next week and strongly praised Argentina’s conditions “for making business and investing”.

• Saturday, April 10th 2010 - 03:05 UTC

  First lesbian marriage in Argentina: both are 67 and couple for 30 years

  

  Two women that were exiled during the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976/1983) got married Friday in Buenos Aires, the first wedding among lesbians in the country, reported the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Federation of Argentina, or FALGBT.

• Friday, April 9th 2010 - 03:01 UTC

  Piñera and Cristina committed to boost bilateral relations and integration

  

  Chile and Argentina pledged Thursday to deepen bilateral relations with visiting president Sebastian Piñera saying that “the best of our relationship is yet to come” and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner anticipating that “ideological differences” won’t be an impediment to keep advancing in cooperation and joint projects.

• Friday, April 9th 2010 - 02:57 UTC

  Argentina to drill two wells next to Falklands’ waters in last quarter

  

  Several oil companies operating in Argentina have teamed up to begin hydrocarbons explorations close to Falklands’ waters. The companies have programmed to spend 140 million US dollars in two exploratory wells for which they have contracted a special drilling vessel, according to reports in the Buenos Aires press.

• Friday, April 9th 2010 - 02:51 UTC

  China enthusiastic about reaching agreement over Argentine soybean oil

  

  Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister, Li Jinzhang, assured that China is “highly enthusiastic” about reaching an agreement to unlock the trade soybean oil conflict between Argentina and the Asian giant, according to Chinese media.