Argentina

• Friday, June 19th 2015 - 06:13 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez confirms Scioli; sponsors three candidates for Buenos Aires province governor

  

  In a display of her political standing, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez confirmed Daniel Scioli as her Victory Font's grouping presidential candidate forcing the other hopeful, whom she had also encouraged, Interior and Transport Minister Florencio Randazzo to step down from his candidacy.

• Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 06:02 UTC

  Falklands' makes its debut among Argentine fans in the America Cup

  

  The America Copa (Cup) currently being played in Chile, and the region's national teams main football competition, has not been without incidents. The one that has attracted most headlines, so far, was the host's leading squad player, Arturo Vidal who went on public television to apologize for drunk driving after crashing his Ferrari.

• Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 05:35 UTC

  Argentine province makes it mandatory to sing a march dedicated to Malvinas Islands

  

  The Argentine province of Salta has passed a law forcing people to sing a song at every public event declaring that the Falkland Islands belong to Argentina. The law will also require every state school in the province to sing the song, known as ”Lilian Guitián, alongside the national anthem.

• Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 05:18 UTC

  Chris Evans will replace Jeremy Clarkson as lead presenter of Top Gear

  

  British TV and radio personality Chris Evans will replace Jeremy Clarkson as the lead presenter of an all-new Top Gear line-up, the BBC has announced. Evans said he was “thrilled” to get the job, describing the motoring show as his “favorite program of all time”.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2015 - 05:56 UTC

  Presidential hopeful Scioli names Cristina Fernandez confident as his running mate

  

  Argentine presidential hopeful and Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli announced he will run for president with Carlos Zannini, the current Legal and Technical Presidential secretary and one of the closest advisors of President Cristina Fernandez, completing the ticket.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2015 - 05:46 UTC

  Stiglitz comes to the rescue of Argentina and Greece on debt restructuring

  

  Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has reiterated his support for a wider system of control on international sovereign debt restructuring, citing the examples of Argentina, Greece and Ukraine to back up his assertion that the area needs more supervision to protect those involved.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2015 - 05:30 UTC

  OAS declaration in support of Malvinas UK/Argentina talks; Canada disagreed

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, meeting in general assembly approved on Tuesday a declaration urging negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2015 - 05:14 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego's May inflation almost three times the official 1% rate

  

  Tierra del Fuego's Consumer Prices Index, CPI for May was almost three times higher than the Argentine government official index from stats office Indec: 2.7% against 1%. The percentage was provided by Tierra del Fuego's Stats and Census Office, which also shows that in the first five months of the year inflation reached 11.4% and 28% in the last twelve months, well above the 15.3% from Indec.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2015 - 06:11 UTC

  Argentina's May official inflation 1% or half that claimed by private consultants

  

  Argentina's National Statistics and Census Institute, Indec reported on Monday that the inflation rate for May reached 1%, totaling 15.3% in the last twelve months and 5.7% for the first five months of 2015.

• Monday, June 15th 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Catholic Church points out that 25% of Argentines are below the poverty line

  

  The Argentine Catholic Church has stood out strongly on the controversy that has followed President Cristina Fernandez statement before the FAO assembly in Rome arguing that poverty in Argentina is below 5%, which was later made superlative by her spokesperson and cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez arguing that poverty in Argentina was less than in Germany or Denmark.