Argentina

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 22:56 UTC

  Buenos Aires open city for marriages of opposite of same sex partners

  

  The City of Buenos Aires will allow foreigners that arrive in Argentina to get married –with either opposite sex or same sex partners- within five days of a request to the Civil Registry and only needing a temporary real address.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 22:54 UTC

  EU ambassador in Argentina suggests “negotiated agreement” for the Repsol/YPF dispute

  

  The European Ambassador to Argentina, Spanish native Alfonso Díez Torres, stressed on Friday that the solution for the YPF seizure conflict would be “a negotiated agreement” between Argentina and Repsol.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 22:39 UTC

  Repsol cancels contract to supply Argentina with LNG; YPF ensures supply

  

  Spain’s Repsol has cancelled its contract to supply Argentina with liquefied natural gas (LNG), just weeks after the country seized control of the company's majority stake in YPF, a document obtained by international news agency Reuters showed.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 22:35 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez insisted in Angola on the South Atlantic as “an area of peace”

  

  President Cristina Fernández highlighted the importance of keeping the South Atlantic region as ”an area of peace, free of militarization,” during her speech before the National Assembly of Angola on Friday.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 18:10 UTC

  Latam Nobel Prize blames Peronism for Argentina’s “self destruction” addiction

  

  Literature Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa blamed Peronism for the self-destruction which is leading Argentina to underdevelopment, poverty and populism, and compared the dominating political movement trajectory to that which took Adolf Hitler to power.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 18:03 UTC

  CFK highlights “magnificent opportunity” for Angola/Argentina trade

  

  President Cristina Fernández highlighted the “magnificent opportunity” Argentina and Angola had in coming together on future business transactions, particularly in the face of the global financial crisis, while addressing a meeting with businessmen in Angloa where she is on a three day official visit.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 09:41 UTC

  Argentine former central bank chief anticipates “de facto devaluation”

  

  A former Argentine central bank president warned that if the economy follows on the current course, a “de facto devaluation” is round the corner because of the growing gap between the official and parallel exchange rates for the US dollar.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 09:09 UTC

  Argentine president in Angola to promote trade and exchange food for oil

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández is on a three-day visit to Angola to promote trade and investments particularly exchanging food for the African country’s oil. Friday morning she is scheduled to meet her counterpart Jose Eduardo Dos Santos.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 09:05 UTC

  Argentina has a Jewish president for two days, Beatriz Rojkes

  

  For the first time, Argentina has a Jewish president, at least temporarily. Beatriz Rojkes, the provisional president of the Argentine Senate, is in charge of the government for several days because both President Christina Fernandez and Vice-President Amado Boudou are overseas.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 04:12 UTC

  YPF second shareholder misses 400 million dollars payment to creditor banks

  

  Argentina's Petersen Group missed a 400 million dollars payment to creditor banks on Wednesday, which could allow them to seize the shares of oil company YPF backing the loan.