Argentina

Thursday, May 27th 2010 - 23:47 UTC
Argentina confirms poor squid season and closes fishery south of parallel 44

Argentina’s squid fishery to the south of parallel 44º was closed last Friday. The measure adopted by the Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) follows scientific information furnished by the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP).
Thursday, May 27th 2010 - 09:18 UTC
Taiana admits Tories are ‘tougher’ on Malvinas but promises a ‘hot’ June

Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Taiana admitted that the new conservative British government of PM David Cameron is taking ”a tougher stance” than its predecessors towards the Argentine claim on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands' sovereignty.
Thursday, May 27th 2010 - 09:11 UTC
Argentina’s delay in dispatching imports is irritating trade partners

Since the controversial Argentine Interior Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno announced in an April 23 letter that he will examine overseas purchases to consider the competitiveness of the national market, products worth millions of dollars have been delayed at Argentina’s borders and ports.
Thursday, May 27th 2010 - 08:51 UTC
More shadows than lights in Amnesty’s annual report on Argentina

Amnesty International (AI) expressed its “deep concern” regarding male violence towards women and the current prison situation in Argentina, where the evictions of indigenous communities from their ancestral lands was also denounced.
Wednesday, May 26th 2010 - 06:21 UTC
Argentina, full of confidence at home and abroad, including the Malvinas Islands

Argentina formally appealed to the British government to discuss sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands in a column signed by Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana, published Tuesday in The Guardian in coincidence with the commemoration of Argentina’s bicentenary.
Wednesday, May 26th 2010 - 06:09 UTC
Buenos Aires re-inaugurates an impressive re-furbished Teatro Colon

Buenos Aires iconic Colón Theatre, probably the world’s most impressive opera house known for its acoustics, shone once again Monday evening with a gala that launched its re-opening after a three-year restoration process, as the milestone of Argentina’s Bicentenary celebrations.
Wednesday, May 26th 2010 - 05:48 UTC
US Judge seizes 2.43 billion USD Argentine government deposits in New York

New York Federal Judge Thomas Griesa seized 2.43 billion US dollars that Argentina’s government owned Banco Nación had deposited in the city in response to a claim presented by a group of Argentine bondholders that did not make it into the debt-swap.
Tuesday, May 25th 2010 - 05:59 UTC
Argentina rejects UK complaints, demands Falklands’ sovereignty talks

Argentina rejected Monday Britain’s complaints about maritime controls in the South Atlantic and again condemned the “unilateral and illegitimate acts” of the UK regarding hydrocarbons exploitation in the continental shelf of the Malvinas/Falklands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands.
Monday, May 24th 2010 - 05:43 UTC
Argentina’s May celebrations with multiple parades included Malvinas veterans

“Let the Bicentennial festivities begin” Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced on Friday and Argentina put its best military and musical display on Saturday in the build-up toward Tuesday’s 200th anniversary of the country’s nationhood Tuesday May 25.
Monday, May 24th 2010 - 02:04 UTC
Falklands’ diplomatic exchange escalates: Argentina summons British ambassador

British Ambassador in Buenos Aires Shan Morgan has been summoned for a meeting on Monday with Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana to receive a formal reply notice to the escalating diplomatic exchange between the two countries over Falklands and other South Atlantic Islands sovereignty which Argentina claims.