Argentina

• Wednesday, April 1st 2015 - 07:45 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez lashes out at unions for the 24-hour strike that brought Argentina to a halt

  

  President Cristina Fernandez fiercely criticized the trade union leaders behind Tuesday's 24-hour general strike, which brought Argentina to a halt, arguing that adhesion to the measure would have been far lower if public transport had functioned as normal.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2015 - 07:25 UTC

  Clearstream stops settlement on all Argentine bonds; asks clarification from government

  

  Following the CNV securities regulator’s decision to suspend Citibank Argentina from its custody business in the country, Clearstream said in a press release it stopped settlement on all Argentine bonds, and will re-open for non-exchange bonds if it gets clarification.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2015 - 07:05 UTC

  Prosecution appeals court ruling dismissing Cristina Fernandez from the Iran coverup case

  

  Argentine prosecutor German Moldes has appealed a second court ruling rejecting the report by Alberto Nisman who, a week before he was found dead in his BA City apartment under mysterious circumstances in January, accused President Cristina Fernández and top government officials of seeking to cover up Iran’s alleged involvement in the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center back in 1994.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Argentine president main speaker at Falklands war ceremony and enshrinement of “Our Lady of Malvinas”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez will be the main speaker at the commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the start of the Falklands/Malvinas war, to be held April second in the city of Ushuaia and which will also include a political-religious ceremony.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 08:52 UTC

  Falklands' defense: Argentina formalizes complaint to UN and regional groups

  

  Argentina dispatched on Monday complaint letters to several international and regional organizations accusing the United Kingdom of further militarizing the Falklands/Malvinas, with an increased budget, alleging Argentina represents a 'live threat' to the Islanders in the British Overseas Territory and thus ignoring tens of resolutions calling for dialogue between the two sides on the Falklands issue.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 08:41 UTC

  Falklands' clearance of Argentine mines planned to restart in mid-September

  

  The Falkland Islands program to clear mines planted by the invading Argentine forces in 1982, is scheduled to take a break at the end of April, following a very successful task all along summer according to Guy Marot, Program Manager for the Falkland Islands Demining Program Office, as reported in the FIG's edition of February.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 06:11 UTC

  Maximo Kirchner rejects accusations; blames international media campaign

  

  Maximo Kirchner, son of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez has strongly denied as “false and ridiculous” news published in Buenos Aires daily Clarin and Brazil's magazine Veja alleging he had secret accounts in the US and Cayman Islands holding millions of dollar.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 05:49 UTC

  Maximo Kirchner accused of having secret accounts in the US and Cayman Islands

  

  Maximo Kirchner, son of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and former Defense and Security Minister Nilda Garre figure with secret bank accounts, stashed with millions of dollars, in the United States and in the Cayman Islands, according to reports in Buenos Aires daily Clarin and Brazil's Veja, the weekly magazine with the largest circulation in that country.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 05:44 UTC

  Unions bring Argentina to a halt over income tax and promise more industrial action

  

  Argentine Labor unions will carry out more strikes after a 24-hour walkout Tuesday, if the government doesn’t heed their demand for less tax pressure, a union leader said on Monday.“The measures of force are going to increase if (the government) continues with the provocations and without giving us a response to our demands,” trucker union boss Pablo Moyano said to a local radio station.

• Monday, March 30th 2015 - 10:36 UTC

  Ushuaia expects 2014/15 cruise season to total over 100.000 visitors

  

  Over 100.000 visitors will have landed in Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina by the end of the current 2014/2015 cruise season, anticipated for mid April, according to official stats from the Tierra del Fuego Tourism Institute, InFueTur.