Argentina

Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 06:00 UTC
Fearing Andes volcano eruption, Chile and Argentina order mandatory evacuation

Chilean and Argentine authorities declared a red alert and ordered the mandatory evacuation of a 25-km radius around the active Copahue volcano, which straddles the border between the two Andean nations.
Monday, May 27th 2013 - 08:26 UTC
Program on Kirchnerite corruption exposure beats football in Argentina

An Argentine investigative journalist program on alleged corruption involving former president Nestor Kirchner and his business cronies had a greater audience than a football match of Boca Juniors, the country’s most popular team disputing the Argentine premier league.
Monday, May 27th 2013 - 07:18 UTC
“The Malvinas are Argentine, but also Latinamerican” says President Correa

“The Malvinas Islands are not only Argentine, they are Latinamerica”, said Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa who claimed it was time to put an end to the ‘colonial situation’ of the disputed Islands in the South Atlantic and blasted the Organization of American States, OAS for dragging its feet on this and other crucial issues for the continent.
Monday, May 27th 2013 - 07:11 UTC
Falklands’ dispute expert named Argentine ambassador in Dublin

An expert in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute and professional diplomat has been accepted as the new Argentine ambassador in Ireland. Silvia Maria Merega has held important posts at the Organization of American States in Washington, before the European Union and at the Argentine embassy in the US.
Monday, May 27th 2013 - 05:16 UTC
CFK calls for ‘empowerment of the people’ and another ten years of Kirchnerism

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd Saturday night celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began in 2003. Her voice breaking, she called it a victorious decade, “won not by a government but by the people” and called for “the empowerment of the people” to defend what has been achieved in the ‘won decade’.
Monday, May 27th 2013 - 05:00 UTC
Argentina’s industrial production up in April, but down in four months of 2013

Argentina's April industrial production rose 1.7% over the same month a year earlier with a big jump in automobile output and more modest gains in the production of building materials, government data showed on Friday.
Monday, May 27th 2013 - 01:49 UTC
Paraguay demands respect from Mercosur, “if not leave us as we are”

The Argentine ambassador to Uruguay, Dante Dovena, assured that authorities are “working intensely” in preparations for the next Mercosur summit scheduled to take place on June 28th in Montevideo. However news form Paraguay doesn’t indicate the same optimism and are demanding respect for ‘the country’s dignity and rule of the law”.
Saturday, May 25th 2013 - 05:45 UTC
All ready for the massive ‘decade won’ celebration of ten years of Kirchnerite rule

All is ready for the massive ‘decade won’ celebration that President Cristina Fernández plans to hold on Saturday May 25 to commemorate the ten years since her late husband Nestor Kirchner first took office, but which must also be interpreted as a rally in support of her administration battered by inflation, a slowing economy, political battles and growing claims of rampant corruption.
Saturday, May 25th 2013 - 05:34 UTC
Falkland Islands elected lawmaker will attend C24 regional seminar in Ecuador

Falkland Islands elected lawmaker Mike Summers will attend next week the Caribbean Regional Seminar of the Special Committee on Decolonization which is to be held in Quito, Ecuador in anticipation of the main C24 annual meeting in New York.
Friday, May 24th 2013 - 07:10 UTC
As the US before IMF lines up behind Argentina in the litigation with hedge funds

For the first time since the litigation of hedge funds against Argentina the International Monetary Fund warned about the ‘risks’ which would entail ratifying Judge Thomas Griesa ruling condemning Argentina to pay over a billion dollars plus interests to the so called ‘vulture funds’.