Argentina

• Thursday, November 22nd 2012 - 14:50 UTC

  Argentina’s outbursts backfire: Judge Griesa orders payment to holdout bond investors

  

  Argentina suffered a stinging blow late Wednesday when New York federal judge Thomas Griesa, citing threats by the country's leaders to defy his rulings in a decade-old dispute over defaulted sovereign bonds, ordered immediate payment.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2012 - 07:38 UTC

  Hamburg tribunal confirms hearings on ARA Libertad impounded at Ghana port

  

  The Law of the Sea Tribunal in Hamburg confirmed the oral hearings’ date for 29 and 30 November referred to the Argentine vessel ARA Libertad impounded and retained in Ghana since 2 October, with a previous day of consultations with both litigants on 28 November.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 21:18 UTC

  Another Argentine province confirms ‘pesification’ of dollar-denominated bonds

  

  Another Argentine province, Formosa announced that it would be repaying in Pesos its dollar-denominated bonds (FORM3) issued under local law, at an exchange rate of 4.81 Pesos per dollar.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 20:51 UTC

  Argentina with the world’s fourth highest inflation, says private bank

  

  Argentina is the country with the world’s fourth highest inflation, behind Sudan, South Sudan and Byelorussia, according to a report from a leading Argentine bank from the City of Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 20:01 UTC

  Ghana rejects Argentine plea to drop case of impounded frigate ARA Libertad

  

  Ghana rejected on Wednesday Argentina’s plea for Accra City’s Commercial Tribunal to drop the case that kept the ARA Libertad navy training frigate impounded at Tema port since October 2nd.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 07:53 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez: “no one is going to pressure me especially with bullying or thugs”

  

  After the first national strike against her administration, Argentine President Cristina Fernández blasted the CGT and CTA-led protest claiming they appealed to “bullying” tactics and called on workers to defend the “economic development and inclusion model”.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 07:48 UTC

  Day of protest a “complete success” and “much stronger than we expected”

  

  Argentine labour unions leaders said that support for the successful national strike was “much stronger than we expected” and urged President Cristina Fernández to listen to “people’s message.”

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 07:41 UTC

  General strike, supported by pickets paralyzed Argentina

  

  Two main opposition umbrella trade unions and other organizations protesting Argentina's economic policies paralyzed the country on Tuesday in the first general strike since President Cristina Fernandez took office five years ago.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2012 - 19:05 UTC

  Falklands claims UN Decolonization chair is not acting with impartiality

  

  The Falkland Islands government complained on Tuesday that the Chairman of the UN Decolonization Committee, Ambassador Diego Morejón Pazmiño is not acting with the impartiality that his role demands and revealed a letter, which remains unanswered, inviting the ambassador to visit the Falklands matching his informative trip to Argentina on the sovereignty of the Islands dispute.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  Major national strike in Argentina with pickets to implement the measure

  

  Argentina’s three main organized labour groupings, and in opposition to Argentine president Cristina Fernandez, have called for a national strike on Tuesday which counts with the support of several tens of camp and city organizations plus hundreds of pickets in the main cities ‘to ensure there is no activity’.