Argentina

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 23:11 UTC

  Montevideo-Stanley, an integrating and necessary air link

  

  By Jaime Trobo (*) - For some time now we have been arguing that Uruguay must strengthen its bonds and contacts with a neighboring territory, in the southern cone, part of our American continent, where families who arrived in our region during the first half of the XIX century live, and with whom those contacts, once very intense, have waned, particularly in the last decades.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:24 UTC

  Argentina still has uphill battle with holdouts: a stay of pari-passu is next round

  

  While investors cheered progress on last week's arduous negotiations in New York between Argentine government officials and litigant investors, the administration of president Mauricio Macri still faces an uphill battle as it works to bring other holdouts on board.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:16 UTC

  US Treasury's strong support message for Argentina's litigation with holdout funds

  

  The United States gave another sign of support for Argentina’s economic policies as US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew spoke on the phone with Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay, striking an optimistic tone regarding the settlement offer made to the holdout funds in New York.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:10 UTC

  Three letters from Macri to Ban Ki-moon; possible summit with Obama in New York

  

  Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra met on Tuesday in New York with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and delivered three letters from president Mauricio Macri.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:08 UTC

  London's position on Falklands 'unchanged', says UK ambassador in Spain

  

  The United Kingdom will not change current policy on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, according to the UK Ambassador to Spain Simon J. Manley, confirming London's stance on the Islands sovereignty.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 02:33 UTC

  Falklands: Back to the future, why the 'new approach' from Argentina is completely missing the point

  

  By the Honourable Mike Summers, OBE (*) - Over the weekend of the 6th and 7th February, the press in Argentina reported that the Government of Argentina (GoA) was going to change its approach to its treatment of the Falkland Islands, its relationship with the United Kingdom and how it intends to “resolve the Falklands question”

• Saturday, February 6th 2016 - 07:57 UTC

  Pollack statement: “pleased to report that enormous progress has been made”

  

  Daniel A. Pollack, Special Master presiding over settlement negotiations between the Republic of Argentina and its “holdout” Bondholders issued the following statement today (Friday, Jan 5):

• Saturday, February 6th 2016 - 07:00 UTC

  Argentina close to a full agreement with holdouts: US$ 6.5bn offer to end the litigation

  

  Argentina offered a $6.5 billion cash payment to creditors suing the country over defaulted bonds on Friday, seeking to end an exhausting 14-year legal battle, “the sovereign debt trial of the century”, that transformed the country into a financial markets pariah. Two out of six leading bondholders have already accepted the offer, the U.S. court-appointed mediator said, hailing the proposal by Argentina's new, business-friendly government as an “historic breakthrough”.

• Saturday, February 6th 2016 - 06:22 UTC

  Falklands' population in 'constrictive' trend, says Argentine team on the field

  

  The Falklands' population composition can be described as 'constrictive' since there is a tendency to ageing in the population pyramid, in other words there are more elderly people than children. Comments belong to a member of an Argentine team of geography and migration experts from a university in Santa Fe province (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, UNL), who have been granted scholarships to collect such data from the Islands, based on a project the team presented.

• Friday, February 5th 2016 - 08:22 UTC

  Strong support message from S&Ps for Argentina's economic reforms

  

  Standard & Poor's ratings agency says that Argentina’s new administration has presented a credible plan to deal with long-standing macroeconomic imbalances, eliminated foreign-exchange restrictions, and begun negotiations with its holdout creditors. The outlook on the local currency rating is stable, reflecting the new economic policies of the Administration, but also the potential difficulties in passing and implementing those plans.