Argentina

• Sunday, October 4th 2009 - 10:48 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner: “One day this century an Argentine president will visit Malvinas”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that one day this century an Argentine president will be able to visit the Malvinas Islands to homage the Argentine soldiers who died in the war with Britain 27 years ago and are buried in the Falklands.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 12:26 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner to farewell Malvinas Families leaving for Falklands

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be at Rio Gallegos airport early Saturday morning to farewell the first group of Malvinas Families that will be flying to the Falkland Islands for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 12:15 UTC

  Scientific report exposes Argentina’s passiveness with fisheries depredation

  

  A chain email is circulating among citizens of Argentina that seriously questions the stance of the national government regarding fisheries ordinance and the treatment of seafood resources.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 12:01 UTC

  IMF confirms normal relationship with Argentina “in the near future”

  

  International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is confident that the fund will resume a “normal” relationship with Argentina soon, he said on Friday.

• Friday, October 2nd 2009 - 17:08 UTC

  Farmers to meet next Monday with Argentina’s new Agriculture minister

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took the oath on Thursday to lawmaker Julian Dominguez at the helm of the newly created cabinet post of Minister of Agriculture, Fishing and Livestock, one of the more conflicting areas of her administration.

• Friday, October 2nd 2009 - 13:22 UTC

  Image of Argentina’s patron Saint ready for final resting in Falklands

  

  An image of Argentina’s patron saint, Our Lady of Lujan, which during the last five years was taken in peregrination all over the country, will be blessed this coming weekend at her sanctuary in Buenos Aires before been flown to be enshrined at the Darwin Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands, according to reports in the Argentine media.

• Friday, October 2nd 2009 - 09:30 UTC

  Support ebbs away for Argentina's President Kirchner and her husband

  

  The following was published by London’s The Guardian and gives a good idea of how the foreign press consider events in Argentina.
  By Rory Carroll and Olive Balch

• Friday, October 2nd 2009 - 09:23 UTC

  Former Argentine president Menem indicted for alleged “terrorist cover up”

  

  An Argentine judge has indicted former President Carlos Menem, several of his aides and an ex judge Juan Jose Galeano for allegedly trying to cover up evidence related to a deadly 1994 terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires against a Jewish organization.

• Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 09:25 UTC

  Tango and candombe declared intangible cultural expressions by Unesco

  

  Two of Uruguay’s most typical cultural expressions, tango and candombe (*) were declared on Wednesday part of the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO.

• Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 08:07 UTC

  Argentina recovering from the global crisis, says World Bank

  

  Argentina's economy is recovering from the global financial crisis in step with the international community, Augusto de la Torre, chief economist of the World Bank, said during a conference in Miami.