Argentina

• Monday, April 13th 2015 - 08:31 UTC

  Argentina's AMIA 1994 terrorist attack trial will be held next 6 August

  

  Argentina's Memoria Activa, one of the most active groups that gather together relatives of the victims of the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, celebrated the decision to hold a trial (6 August) for the cover-up of the bombing this year, which was announced on Friday after weeks of heated controversy between the Executive, the Supreme Court and the tribunal in charge of judging the case.

• Monday, April 13th 2015 - 08:00 UTC

  Ushuaia expects at least 16 additional calls for the 2015/16 cruise season

  

  Ushuaia in the extreme south of Argentina expects sixteen additional calls for the next cruise season 2015/16, according to Tierra del Fuego province ports authority, which together with other representatives attended the recent Seatrade Cruise international fair held in Miami. This includes vessels from the Norwegian Cruise Line, as well as the Splendor of the Seas, Crystal Symphony and Japan's Asuka II.

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 10:29 UTC

  Controversy over Argentine ambassador accounts, dismissed by US bank

  

  Argentine ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Nilda Garre denied having accounts neither in the CNB Bank nor in the Felton Bank, saying the US-based entity had written proof that there were no accounts under her name there.

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 08:22 UTC

  Falklands 'raided' by British Special Forces to test the garrison's security, says UK media

  

  British Special forces have carried a raid on the Falkland Islands to test the garrison's security amid fears that Argentina may try to land commandos on the Islands, according to a piece published in the Sunday Express. Apparently such routine exercises are carried out in UK highly sensitive bases and defense compounds.

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 07:36 UTC

  Argentina's message to UK and US: “utterly ridiculous considering any regional country a threat.”

  

  Addressing the Americas summit in Panama, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez strongly criticized United States policies towards the hemisphere, particularly Venezuela, and expressed 'surprise' at the parallelism between the Caracas/Washington current dispute and the latest round of Falklands' exchanges between London and her government. President Barack Obama was not present during the Argentine leader's speech on Saturday.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 14:27 UTC

  Seizure of YPF faces litigation from two Spanish companies demanding compensation

  

  Argentina has been sued in a US district court in New York in connection with its nationalization of oil giant YPF in 2012, according to court documents. The plaintiffs are two Spanish firms, and they are represented by a US law firm Burford Capital.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 06:45 UTC

  Falklands: Ambassador Castro refers ironically to Foreign Office summons

  

  Argentine ambassador in London, Alicia Castro complained about being summoned to the Foreign Office over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute revealing she asked the British official if it was “an expression of British humor or a political paradox”, since the UK has failed to comply with international law for the last five decades.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 05:45 UTC

  'Malvinas', center piece of Cristina Fernandez speech at Panama summit

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is attending the VII Summit of the Americas in Panama City where she is expected on Saturday to strongly criticize the United Kingdom over the 'militarization' of the Falklands/Malvinas and revelations of massive espionage of Argentina by London.

• Friday, April 10th 2015 - 03:09 UTC

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

  

  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 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.