Argentina

• Wednesday, September 26th 2012 - 06:55 UTC

  Argentina and Iran to discuss bombings in Buenos Aires in the nineties

  

  President Cristina Fernández announced that Argentina and Iran will meet to discuss the two bombings of Jewish targets in the 1990's, attacks in which Iran was accused by Argentine courts of playing a role.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2012 - 02:52 UTC

  Argentina calls on UK for talks on ‘global issue’ Malvinas and ‘demilitarization’ of South Atlantic

  

  President Cristina Fernández once again claimed Argentina’s sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas islands and urged the United Kingdom to accept talks and abide by the United Nations resolutions on the matter which has become a “global issue”. The Argentine leader also asked for the demilitarization of the South Atlantic.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2012 - 00:45 UTC

  Argentina hits back at Lagarde: “this is not a football match and we are a sovereign nation”

  

  Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez hit back at the IMF on Tuesday for warning her country about bad stats data, saying her nation is sovereign and would not be subjected to threats of any kind.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2012 - 23:17 UTC

  Ambassador Argüello praises “best US/Argentina trade relationship in 200 years”

  

  Argentine ambassador in the United States Jorge Argüello assured that Argentina and the US “are having the best trade relationship in almost 200 years of bilateral relations” and said that “they’ve never had a trade volume similar to the one reached this year, which left a 13 billion dollar surplus.”

• Tuesday, September 25th 2012 - 23:12 UTC

  Lavagna tells Kirchnerites to stop clapping and give true picture of the Argentine economy

  

  Argentine former Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna considered the “economic model” led by President Cristina Fernandez administration is entering “a clear downfall” and slammed Kirchnerite politicians, unionists and businessmen “for, out of fear, clapping at political rallies instead of saying what they really believe about the economy”.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2012 - 08:11 UTC

  At least 21.9% of Argentines poor, according to the Catholic University

  

  Poverty in Argentina is at least three times the official figure presented by the controversial government stats office, Indec, if the criteria and methodology applied by the Argentine Catholic University Social Debt Barometer are taken into account.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2012 - 04:17 UTC

  Billionaire Soros meets Cristina Fernandez and exchange ideas of world affairs

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández met on Monday with billionaire investor George Soros at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York, before her speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. The meeting was held on an “open agenda” and lasted for an hour.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 22:50 UTC

  IMF warns Argentina on stats: next time (December 17) it’s a red card

  

  IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned Argentina on Monday that the multilateral lender is willing to show it a red card if by December the government of Cristina Fernández does not meet its promises of providing reliable inflation and GDP statistics, during a conference at the Peterson Institute in Washington DC.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  There will be a Grand Prix in Argentina “when I can deal with serious people”

  

  There will the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Argentina “when I can deal with serious people” said the industry’s pope, Bernie Ecclestone following on Argentina’s aspirations to be included in the competition’s coming calendar.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 02:39 UTC

  Assange praises Argentina for facing UK, but criticizes the data-gathering system

  

  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange currently holed in the Ecuadorean embassy in London said that “Argentina's support is very important, because Argentina has experience with facing the UK”.