Argentina

• Tuesday, March 17th 2015 - 08:06 UTC

  Falklands’ HMS Conqueror which sank Belgrano to be exhibited at UK memorial centre

  

  The first British nuclear submarine to fire at Argentine battle cruiser General Belgrano during the Falkland Islands conflict is to be exhibited at a memorial centre, the UK-based Sunday Express reported on Sunday. The HMS Conqueror — known for having contributed to sinking of the Argentine cruiser, at the cost of 323 lives — is due to be allocated in a commemoration to the British fleet used during 1982 South Atlantic conflict.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2015 - 07:39 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez manages to split the farmers’ united front after years of confrontation

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez, on the campaign trail ahead of October’s national elections, announced on Monday the creation of a new fund which will reduce by up to 50% the 'retention' taxes on exportation rights paid by small and medium agriculture farmers.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2015 - 07:23 UTC

  Griesa rejects Citigroup petition to allow payment of bonds issued under Argentine law

  

  New York district judge Thomas Griesa has declined a request from the Citigroup bank to allow the entity to process the payment of Argentine bonds under local law while an appeal against the magistrate's negative ruling is being prepared.

• Monday, March 16th 2015 - 10:39 UTC

  Israel newspaper questions Nisman’s accusations against Cristina Fernandez and Timerman

  

  Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published an article questioning the criminal accusation filed by late AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman against Argentine President Cristina Fernández and Foreign minister Hector Timerman, while asserting that the official's handling of the case was far from exemplary.

• Sunday, March 15th 2015 - 02:33 UTC

  Argentina will keep to its monetary policy despite a 20% devaluation of the Brazilian Real

  

  Argentina’s central bank governor Alejandro Vanoli said that despite the continued erosion of the Brazilian currency against the US dollar, which ended the week trading at 3.28 Real to the greenback, monetary policy will continue to manage the foreign exchange to avoid volatility and ensure economic growth.

• Sunday, March 15th 2015 - 02:19 UTC

  The non humble fellow Argentines according to Pope Francis

  

  Pope Francis during one of the several interviews motivated by his two years in the Vatican, also referred to his fellow citizens in Argentina, which he described as non humble and on the contrary rather vain and arrogant.

• Sunday, March 15th 2015 - 01:10 UTC

  US ambassador in Argentina received by cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez

  

  Argentina’s Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernández received United States ambassador to Argentina Noah Mamet in his Casa Rosada office. Apparently the meeting was strictly protocol, and no details of the agenda were supplies to the media.

• Sunday, March 15th 2015 - 01:02 UTC

  Argentina declassifies all files connected to the 1994 AMIA attack

  

  The administration of President Cristina Fernandez has ordered the declassification of all files connected with the attack against the AMIA Jewish community center that took place in 1994 in Buenos Aires City. Some of the documents were already in the hands of the special prosecutor in charge of investigating the bombing, now late Alberto Nisman.

• Sunday, March 15th 2015 - 00:54 UTC

  Argentina blasts Judge Griesa ruling blocking Citigroup from paying bonds issued under local law

  

  A release from the Argentine Economy Ministry considered US Judge Thomas Griesa's ruling issued on Thursday “a shameful excess of jurisdiction”. Judge Griesa blocked Citigroup Inc from processing interest payments by Argentina on some bonds issued under the country's law.

• Saturday, March 14th 2015 - 10:30 UTC

  Cruise season in Ushuaia with 71.000 visitors and 251 calls

  

  Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego and considered the most southern city of the world, received over 70.000 cruise visitors and 251 vessel calls during this cruise season, which took off last September and was computed until the end of February, which also proved to be the most active month of austral summer.