Argentina

• Saturday, December 1st 2012 - 07:48 UTC

  Parlatino ample support for Paraguayan Congress despite Argentina

  

  The Paraguayan congress was strongly supported at the Latinamerican Parliament, Parlatino, which during the XXVIII ordinary session voted against an Argentine motion to have it suspended.

• Friday, November 30th 2012 - 20:07 UTC

  Excellent weather for “Seabourn Sojourn” on her Friday Falklands’ call

  

  Despite claims by the Argentine media that the Bahamas flagged cruise vessel “Seabourn Sojourn” had no plans to visit Falklands the 431 passengers on board have enjoyed a wide range of tours around the Islands after they anchored in Port William, just outside of Stanley Harbour on Friday at 9am.

• Friday, November 30th 2012 - 08:40 UTC

  YPF takes over Argentina’s main gas distribution company belonging to BG

  

  Argentina’s nationalized oil and gas company YPF announced it has taken control of Metrogas, after acquiring 54.67% of the shares of Gas Argentino (GASA) from the company British Gas (BG). The takeover leaves the oil company as the main stockholder and controller of 70% of the largest gas distribution company in Argentina.

• Friday, November 30th 2012 - 06:02 UTC

  Seabourn Cruise Line no longer will call at the Falklands, reports Ushuaia media

  

  The Bahamas flagged cruise vessel ‘Seabourn Sojourn’ that on Thursday berthed at Ushuaia reported to Argentine port authorities it has no plans to visit the Falklands/Malvinas Islands according to press reports from the capital of Argentine Tierra del Fuego.

• Thursday, November 29th 2012 - 22:23 UTC

  Brazil calls on Argentina to integrate and consolidate world’s fifth largest economy

  

  The presence this week of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff next to Cristina Fernandez at Argentina’s Industrial Union, UIA annual conference was considered a major integration success and highlights the growing interaction of the two leading Mercosur partners.

• Thursday, November 29th 2012 - 20:47 UTC

  Law of the Sea tribunal will decide Argentina/Ghana case on December 15

  

  The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea announced that the decision on the case involving the Argentine Navy frigate ARA Libertad retained in Ghana will be made public next 15 December. On Thursday both sides made their case in a several hours hearing at the seat of the tribunal in Hamburg.

• Thursday, November 29th 2012 - 06:50 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez described Argentina as the ‘counter model’ of IMF and the world’s masters

  

  President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ratified on Wednesday that Argentina will continue to pay all its financial obligations and described as “absolutely unfair” the ruling from Judge Thomas Griesa who favoured the hedge funds to the detriment of 93% of bondholders who joined the 2005 and 2010 debt swaps.

• Thursday, November 29th 2012 - 06:42 UTC

  Argentina increases 44% wellhead natural gas prices to attract investment

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez announced on Wednesday that wellhead natural gas prices are to rise substantially from current levels, an estimated 44%, with the purpose of attracting more investments and increasing production.

• Thursday, November 29th 2012 - 00:31 UTC

  Argentina saved from a ‘technical default’; court case continues February 27

  

  A US appeals court on Wednesday granted an emergency stay order that gives Argentina more time to argue against making a 1.33 billion dollars payment to investors who rejected two debt restructurings in the nation's 2002 sovereign debt default.

• Wednesday, November 28th 2012 - 23:11 UTC

  ARA Libertad can’t be impounded according to IMO, says Ambassador Castro

  

  The International Maritime Organization (IMO) certified that the ARA Libertad frigate is a military vessel, therefore, it can not be impounded, Argentina's ambassador to the UK, Alicia Castro, reported.