Argentina

Monday, March 5th 2018 - 09:19 UTC
YPF recovers from 2016 and posts full year profit of US$ 627m for 2017

Argentina’s state-owned oil company YPF SA posted a full-year 2017 profit of 12.7 billion pesos (US$ 627.16 million), the company said, rebounding from a 28.4 billion-peso loss in 2016.
Monday, March 5th 2018 - 09:09 UTC
Macri's ¨coffin¨ and insulting songs MMSOB, the latest fad in Argentine football stadiums

The police of Argentina's second city, Rosario seized four cardboard “coffins” one of them with the name of president Mauricio Macri, before a football match of the Argentine premier league, involving one of the city's leading teams Rosario Central.
Monday, March 5th 2018 - 06:58 UTC
Cristina Fernandez and cronies must face trial on public works contracts

An Argentine judge on Friday said that ex-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner must face trial over alleged corruption related to the awarding of public contracts in her southern political stronghold of Patagonia.
Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 19:58 UTC
Falklands: Argentine tombstones with the names of identified soldiers should arrive Sunday

An Argentine charter is scheduled to land in the Falkland Islands this Sunday carrying the plaques (tombstones) with the names of the 88 now identified Argentine soldiers buried in the Darwin cemetery following a DNA forensic identification process during last year, led by the International Red Cross.
Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:23 UTC
Macri confirms gradualist approach to economic reforms in speech to Congress

In his speech to Congress marking the opening of this year’s legislative session, Argentine president Mauricio Macri defended his business-friendly government’s so-called “gradualist” approach to economic reforms from critics who argue he should move faster to cut government spending and lower taxes in order to boost growth and attract investment.
Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:20 UTC
British Forces confirm defense talks in London between Argentina and UK

Falkland Islands' weekly Penguin News has received confirmation from the British Forces South Atlantic Islands Headquarters that earlier this week United Kingdom and Argentina held defense talks for the first time in over ten years. This week's PN reported on the front page that the Argentine newspaper Clarin released the story on the defense talks, but had no British defense confirmation to its request at the time of going to print.
Thursday, March 1st 2018 - 11:58 UTC
Spanish trawler caught illegally fishing in South Atlantic fined in Argentina and Spain

Argentina's Fisheries Secretariat imposed a 400.000 Euros fine, (the highest possible) and the seizure of the cargo, some 550.000 Euros, to Galicia's Pesquerias Marinenses following the arrest of trawler Playa Pesmar Uno which was caught operating in Argentina's EEZ, in early February.
Wednesday, February 28th 2018 - 10:08 UTC
Falklands second commercial air link: “Avoid any Argentine flight connection”

The recent statement entitled ‘Progress made towards establishing a second commercial Falkland Islands air link’ released by the Falkland Islands Government has met with a mixed reception in the Islands. While some have expressed favor others have reservations and questions.
Wednesday, February 28th 2018 - 09:56 UTC
Menem forecasts Peronism will rise from the ashes and be government in 2019

Former Argentine president Carlos Menem rated the government of Cristina Fernandez one, out of a scale of ten, and with a smile told a CNN interviewer that all Argentine governments had been exposed to corruption except his. He also anticipated that Peronism will “rise from the ashes” and return to government in 2019.
Wednesday, February 28th 2018 - 09:37 UTC
Prolonged drought wrecking soybean and corn crops, threatens Argentina's growth

A prolonged drought wreaking havoc on Argentina's soybean and corn crops could threaten the country's economic performance in 2018, an official said, as the country seeks to grow for a second straight year after several years of biting recession.