Argentina

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Falklands' veteran supports Everton Argentine player Funes Mori: “he is entitled to his opinion”

  

  A Falklands war veteran has said that Everton’s player Ramiro Funes Mori is “entitled to his opinion“ after a controversial tweet went viral. The Argentine defender posted, “Las Malvinas son argentinas” which translates as “the Falkland Islands are Argentine” on the anniversary of Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands, April 2nd.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:04 UTC

  Falkland Islanders react to Argentine Next of Kin Visit

  

  As Mercopress have covered, families of 90 unidentified soldiers visited the Falkland Islands from Argentina last week. They spent the day at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin and paid respects to their sons, brothers and partners whose remains were recently identified after a lengthy DNA process administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 19:06 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community honors first woman submariner, who remains missing in the Atlantic

  

  The first female submarine officer in Argentina, who remains missing in the Atlantic Ocean, was honored by the country’s Jewish community on International Women’s Month. Eliana María Krawczyk, 35, who is Jewish, is one of 44 crew members of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, which remains missing in the Atlantic four months after it fell off the radar with a one week supply of oxygen on board.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 18:56 UTC

  The Kirchners' most trusted official caught in the Odebrecht corruption web

  

  An Argentine judge has charged ex president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner former planning minister in a case involving Brazilian company Odebrecht. Argentina's official Judicial Information Center says that Julio De Vido was charged Tuesday with carrying out incompatible deals while in public office.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  American Airlines launches nonstop flight between Los Angeles and Buenos Aires

  

  American Airlines will launch its first-ever nonstop flights between Los Angeles International Airport and Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires, as part of a broader expansion in service to Mexico and South American destinations.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  The central ceremony of the Malvinas war 36th anniversary is held in Ushuaia

  

  On the 36th anniversary of the beginning of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict Argentine Interior minister Rogelio Frigerio called “for intelligent ways to advance in our legitimate claim of the Malvinas Islands' sovereignty”. Frigerio was the main speaker at the central event of the 36th anniversary held this Monday in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, next to the Beagle channel.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:08 UTC

  Moscow and Falklands' war: “ironically the Soviet Union came on the side of anti communist Argentina”

  

  Sputnik, the official Russian news agency has recalled the 1982 South Atlantic conflict on the 36th anniversary, and offers an interesting interpretation of events previous to the war, the fighting itself and prospects for the future, making emphasis on the overall world scenario at the time.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 07:15 UTC

  Macri pledges to Malvinas relatives that Argentina will continue to struggle for the Islands' sovereignty

  

  President Mauricio Macri received at the Olivos residence the relatives of the 90 soldiers buried at the Argentine military cemetery in the Falkland Islands and pledged that Argentina will continue to struggle for the sovereignty and recovery of the Islands.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 05:28 UTC

  The Economist: Mauricio Macri fights Argentina’s tradition of handouts for votes

  

  Just off Leonardo da Vinci Avenue, a long street of modest shops and foul-smelling gutters in the district of La Matanza outside Buenos Aires, stands La Juanita, a co-operative. Founded by unemployed workers in 2001, it occupies a former school.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 05:19 UTC

  Malvinas Veteran and Fallen Day remembered in Argentina with two central ceremonies

  

  The 36th anniversary of the Falklands conflict in 1982 will be recalled in Argentina with two main events: Malvinas relatives will be received on Monday afternoon by president Mauricio Macri at his official residence in Olivos while Interior Minister Rogelio Fregerio will head the ceremony in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, next to the Beagle Channel.