Argentina

• Monday, November 28th 2016 - 07:40 UTC

  Malvinas Argentine sovereignty was always promoted by Fidel Castro

  

  Despite the political changes experienced by Argentina during the XXth century, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro always supported Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in international forae and in public statements, it has been recalled in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, November 28th 2016 - 07:06 UTC

  Argentina takes its first David Cup title following four final defeats

  

  Argentina completed an improbable comeback to claim its first Davis Cup title, storming back from the brink of elimination to defeat Croatia on Sunday. Argentina was one set from defeat in the fourth rubber, with Marin Cilic leading Juan Martin del Potro two sets to love, and they would mount a historic rally to lift the trophy. Del Potro turned in his first career two-set comeback 6-7(4), 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3, followed by a clutch 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 win for Federico Delbonis over Ivo Karlovic.

• Saturday, November 26th 2016 - 11:01 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez summoned to court in Buenos Aires: law enforcement will act if she refuses to comply

  

  Argentina's ex president Cristina Fernandez has been ordered to court next Tuesday by federal magistrate Claudio Bonadio, and warned that should she not abide she will be taken by public force to comply with the registry of finger prints and undergo a socio-environment report. The decision refers to the dollar futures case for which the ex president has been indicted.

• Friday, November 25th 2016 - 15:53 UTC

  Opposition governors give thumbs down to electronic vote reform for 2017

  

  Argentine province governors of the opposition Justicialist (Peronist) Party now embodied in the Kirchnerite Victory Front (FpV) Thursday instructed their representatives on the national Senate to vote against President Mauricio Macri's proposal for an reform that would include electronic voting tickets.

• Friday, November 25th 2016 - 07:20 UTC

  Falklands' mine clearance progresses steadily: 82 fields still to be neutralized

  

  Minefield clearance in the Falklands is going well on the current phase which will run until June 2017, Dynasafe Bactec Ltd. Program manager Guy Marot confirmed this week to Penguin News. Work to date has involved technical survey and clearance work in the Eliza Cove area (south east Stanley) and Goose Green, and is scheduled to continue after Christmas in the Mount Longdon and Hearndon Waters (Murrell) minefields, and Port Howard on West Falklands.

• Thursday, November 24th 2016 - 20:14 UTC

  Mercosur talks: No summit and Argentina will take over on December 14 rumoured

  

  The presidency of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) in supposedly in the hands of Venezuela, who is said to have been suspended from full membership for failing to comply with the bloc's statutes.

• Thursday, November 24th 2016 - 15:51 UTC

  Malcorra grateful to Panama for the standing and historic support in Malvinas sovereignty dispute

  

  Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra thanked her Panama peer Isabel de Saint Malo for the standing historic support from Panama to Argentina´s sovereignty claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, (under UK control), and looked forward to strengthening the excellent bilateral relations, according to an official Wednesday release from San Martin Palace.

• Thursday, November 24th 2016 - 14:20 UTC

  No layoffs until March 2017 in Argentina

  

  The Argentine government reached an agreement Wednesday with businessmen and CGT union leaders that there will be no layoffs until March 2017, to give workers reassurances that that there is a commitment to create new jobs and to preserve the existing ones.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2016 - 16:39 UTC

  Argentina and UK to work jointly in scientific research and exchange of experts

  

  Argentina and the United Kingdom will sign this Wednesday an accord by which the two countries scientific societies will be working jointly in research projects and promoting an active exchange of scientists, as part of the recent joint statement signed last September, revealed Science and Technology minister José Lino Barañao currently in London.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2016 - 16:09 UTC

  Economic crisis hits airline industry in Brazil, Venezuela. Low-cost carrier wants start operating in Argentina

  

  Etihad join list of Asian airlines that continue to drop their routes to South America's biggest market. New low-cost service aims at passengers who do not travel by plane today in Argentina and Venezuelan companies in dire straits to stay operational.