Argentina

Sunday, January 29th 2017 - 09:57 UTC
Damaged cruise vessel ready to leave Ushuaia on a piggy-back trip to Europe

A major rescue operation took place in Ushuaia, Argentine Tierra del Fuego when a cruise vessel from National Geographic, which was non operational since limping back from Antarctica a month ago was hauled on to a special tug-carrier and is now preparing for its piggy-back trip to a Dutch ship yard for repairs.
Saturday, January 28th 2017 - 10:42 UTC
Argentine lawmakers invited to Britain to meet peers in London and Scotland

A delegation of Argentine lawmakers will be visiting UK beginning Monday invited by the Inter Parliamentary Union, IPU, British chapter, with the purpose of establishing closer links at legislative level with their peers.
Friday, January 27th 2017 - 10:36 UTC
Tierra del Fuego questions making Malvinas Veterans Day, April 2, a floating holiday

Argentine province Tierra del Fuego announced its rejection to the government's decision to make national holiday Malvinas Veterans Day, 2 April, a floating holiday anticipating it will bring up the issue in Congress.
Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 20:24 UTC
Falkland Islands' war materials turned into roses for peace

Argentine goldsmith Juan Carlos Pallarols is creating beautiful roses and other pieces of art from bullets, pistols and even parts of airplanes from the Falkland Islands war as a way of promoting peace between his country and Britain.
Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 19:31 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas: regional summit to renew request for UN Secretary General good offices in the dispute

Leaders from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, expressed full support for Argentina's legitimate rights over the South Atlantic islands (Falklands, South Georgia and South Sandwich) and anticipated they will be requesting the UN Secretary General to renew his good offices for the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and UK to reach a peaceful solution to the dispute.
Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 09:01 UTC
Argentina cautious about Trump’s administration impact on bilateral trade

Argentina's trade relationship with the United States will not suffer an immediate negative impact with Donald Trump as president, but it remains to be seen how his measures will shape the world economy, according to the Argentine ambassador in Washington, Martín Lousteau.
Wednesday, January 25th 2017 - 07:35 UTC
Falklands and Argentine governments regret and repudiate damages at the Darwin cemetery

The governments of the Falkland Islands and Argentina have regretted and repudiated damaging actions at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, while an investigation into the vandalizing has been launched by the Falklands Royal Police, RFIP.
Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 12:10 UTC
Ushuaia out off internet: beavers cut the optic fiber to build dens

Ushuaia, capital of Tierra del Fuego in the extreme south of Argentina was left without internet and cellular phone communications most of last Friday because beavers had bitten pieces of the optic fiber for their dens.
Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 11:52 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas negotiations have no third leg, “they are bilateral, Argentina and UK”

Argentina's Lower House Foreign Affairs committee formally constituted the All parties Parliamentary Observatory on the Malvinas Question, claiming congressional participation in all bilateral agreements with the UK referred to Falklands/Malvinas resources and underlining that there is no such thing as a third leg, Falklands residents in negotiations with the UK.
Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 11:16 UTC
“Dancing for Falklands”, MLA Gavin Short takes on Argentina's most mediatic personality

Falkland Islands lawmaker, MLA Gavin Short has picked a dispute with possibly the most mediatic character in Argentina, a simple soccer commentator who in three decades has built a powerful entertainment corporation and is the showman of one of the evening programs which for years has had the highest ratings.