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Montevideo, August 6th 2025 - 23:16 UTC

Argentina

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 03:09 UTC

    “UK has no doubt about sovereignty over the Falklands and Islanders right to decide their future”

    “We object strongly to recent statements by the Argentine president and the Argentine ambassador to London, and so summoned the ambassador to account for these”

    The UK Foreign Office summoned Argentine Ambassador Alicia Castro to object recent remarks regarding the Falkland Islands by President Cristina Fernandez and the diplomat based in London. An FCO spokesperson said that Britain has no doubt about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and surrounding maritime areas, nor about the Falkland Islanders' right to decide their own future.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 03:03 UTC

    Argentina ordered to pay 405m dollars to nationalized Suez water works

    The French group released a short statement indicating it accepted the judgment and expressing its hope that Argentina complies with the compensation order.

    The World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ordered Argentina to pay 405 million dollars to French company Suez, who saw their contract for water and drainage provision cancelled in 2006. The service had been privatized in the nineties during the presidency of Carlos Menem.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 03:00 UTC

    Falklands' bumper year for Illex squid predicts fisheries scientist

    Illex squid catches caught this season are already 150,000 tons. Last year the fishery had a record catch of over 306,000 tons.

    The Falkland Islands are set to have another bumper year of Illex squid catches with 150,000 tons already caught this season. Last year the fishery had a record catch of over 306,000 tons. It is, “a record catch at this point in the season, at least in the last 25 years of the fishery” Senior Scientist at the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department Dr Sasha Arkhipkin, told Penguin News.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 00:44 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez will visit his close new friend Putin on April 22/23

    Putin made an official visit to the Buenos Aires in July 2014, during which time the two countries signed energy and cooperation deals

    Argentine President Cristina Fernández will be heading to Moscow in just under two weeks upon invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark 130 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The announcement of the president’s 22/23 April visit to Russia came amid news that she would also visit Pope Francis in the Vatican on June 7.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 00:25 UTC

    Five Falklands' oil companies accused of violating Argentine law and UN resolutions

    CFK accused the companies of “carrying out hydrocarbon exploration activities on Argentina's continental shelf without obtaining the corresponding authorization”

    Argentina's government on Thursday formally accused five oil companies of conducting illegal exploration work off the British-ruled Falkland Islands, which Buenos Aires claims as its own. The companies are Britain's Rockhopper Exploration plc, Premier Oil plc and Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd; Houston-based Noble Energy Inc.; and Italy's Edison International SpA, Argentina's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 07:50 UTC

    Jeremy Clarkson is back on BBC as guest host of “Have I got news for you”

    Clarkson was suspended by the BBC on 10 March following a “fracas” with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon in a hotel in North Yorkshire.

    Jeremy Clarkson is set to make his first appearance on the BBC since losing his job as co-presenter on Top Gear. The controversial broadcaster will appear as the guest host of 'Have I Got News for You' on 24 April. Clarkson became notorious in Argentina for his 'provocative' Top Gear program using cars with plates (H982 FKL) that made reference to the Falklands war of 1982 triggering strong reactions.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 07:01 UTC

    U.S. should back the Falkland Islanders’ Right of Self-Determination at the Summit of the Americas

    Like all of the other British Overseas Territories, the Falkland Islands have chosen not to be completely independent, but they are self-governing.

    By Luke Coffey and Nile Gardiner, Ph. D. (*)

    The Organization of American States (OAS) will hold the seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, on April 10–11, 2015. In the past, Canada has been alone in supporting the Falkland Islanders’ right of self-determination in the OAS.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 00:54 UTC

    Pope Francis will meet President Cristina Fernández for the fifth time, next June

    “The new meeting between the president and the Pope reaffirms the continuity of their cordial relations,” Argentine Cult Secretary Guillermo Olivieri said.

    Pope Francis and Argentine president Cristina Fernández will meet for the fifth time at the Vatican in June, according to government sources. The head of state will visit the pontiff between June 7 and 9, two months before the PASO primaries and ahead of national elections that are to be held in October. It will be their fifth meeting since Francis was elected and the first one under the administration of Eduardo Valdés, the Argentine Ambassador to the Vatican, appointed in December.

  • Wednesday, April 8th 2015 - 16:12 UTC

    Falklands, South Atlantic islands, Antarctica included in new Tierra del Fuego official map

    Governor Fabiana Rios sent the bill for approval by the provincial legislative in Ushuaia, most probably with the blessings from Buenos Aires

    Argentina's most southern province identified as Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic islands is redesigning its internal political limits with the purpose of “contributing to the territorial sovereignty of the Nation”, according to a bill sent to the provincial legislative by governor Fabiana Ríos and drafted with help from the Malvinas Question Advisory Observatory.

  • Wednesday, April 8th 2015 - 14:44 UTC

    Argentina's few friends in the world; China and Russia, Cristina Fernandez foreign policy priorities

    “Argentina has been erased from world leaders' agenda with the exception of China and Russia”, points out Morales Solá

    Argentina's foreign policy, under president Cristina Fernández, has new priorities, China and Russia, according to columnist Joaquin Morales Solá, one of the outstanding political analysts of Argentina. This means a radical change from democratic Argentina (since 1983) when the interests of the country were targeted in Latin America, particularly Brazil, Europe and the US, although the importance of the short list varied according to the different elected presidents.