Argentina

Saturday, December 6th 2014 - 00:30 UTC
Argentina offers advance payment of 2015 maturing bonds to head off speculation

Argentina's government offered this week to make full early payment on a local dollar-denominated bond to head off speculation that its legal battle with U.S. hedge funds will make it unable to service its debt.
Friday, December 5th 2014 - 23:41 UTC
Top Gear incident in Argentina: “Foreign Office did not incur in any additional assistance costs”

The Foreign Office did not incur any costs in providing assistance to the BBC Top Gear team which was recently in an Argentine tour and was forced to leave the country under protection, following alleged disrespectful references to the 1982 Falklands war by the team.
Friday, December 5th 2014 - 06:01 UTC
HMS Dragon in Chile; Argentine media recalls Mercosur ban on RN vessels

Argentine media is reporting that HMS Dragon, Type 45 destroyer and one of the most modern vessels in the Royal Navy is currently in Valparaiso, Chile attending the Exponaval 2014, one of the main naval and maritime exhibition events in the Southern hemisphere.
Thursday, December 4th 2014 - 05:51 UTC
Falling oil prices comes as a blessing for dollar-short Argentina

The slump in global oil prices will reduce Argentina's energy import bill by several billion dollars, a development that could ease pressure on the Central Bank’s strained foreign-currency reserves, according to Economy minister Axel Kicillof.
Thursday, December 4th 2014 - 05:34 UTC
Cristina's immunity when she steps down, becomes a political topic

Argentine Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich denied that a bill to choose the members of Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur) through popular vote had a hidden agenda for granting immunity for President Cristina Fernandez after 2015, as was denounced by Buenos Aires Clarin newspaper.
Wednesday, December 3rd 2014 - 08:15 UTC
Falklands' patrol vessels support, allegedly from Brazil and Chile, trigger debate in Argentina

Argentine opposition lawmakers expressed concern about alleged logistic support from Brazil and Chile to British warships and other auxiliary vessels in the South Atlantic and demanded the government of president Cristina Fernández report to Congress on the matter.
Wednesday, December 3rd 2014 - 07:36 UTC
Finally Argentina will have a US ambassador: he never visited the country or speaks Spanish

The United States Senate confirmed soap opera producer Colleen Bell to be the next U.S. ambassador to Hungary and political consultant Noah Mamet to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Argentina on Tuesday. Neither of the two newly-confirmed Ambassadors are career diplomats, but both raised millions for President Obama's Presidential campaigns.
Monday, December 1st 2014 - 09:44 UTC
A “Malvinas 'invasion' with women”, Mujica proposes to the Argentines

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said that if Argentina wished to recover the Falklands/Malvinas Islands it should appeal to the “women” and an invasion of “mattresses and blankets”.
Monday, December 1st 2014 - 09:18 UTC
Argentina's visiting Scioli was the first to officially announce Vazquez' victory

Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli who on Sunday travelled to Montevideo to congratulate elected president Tabare Vazquez, unknowingly was the first person to officially confirm the victory of Uruguay's next leader a few minutes after voting booths were closed.
Monday, December 1st 2014 - 08:22 UTC
Presidential hopeful Scioli sends another 10.000 police on the beat in Buenos Aires province

Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli has reinforced his 2015 electoral platform promoting law-and-order and tackling crime after inspecting the 10,000 police cadets that graduated from the Juan Vucetich academy. The police officers will be joining the Buenos Aires provincial police and will be soon patrolling Greater Buenos Aires, rural areas and will be part of communal police forces.