Argentina

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 05:39 UTC

  Wild Viking being held in Puerto Williams

  

  Norwegian rogue yachtsman Jarle Andhøy, 34, along with four other crew members on the 54-foot yacht steel yacht Nilaya - who were arrested last week by the Chilean Navy - are being held at the Chilean Naval base in Puerto Williams, after apparently after giving a false name for the vessel when hailed by the Chilean Navy according to press reports from Chile and New Zealand over the weekend.

• Saturday, April 7th 2012 - 07:07 UTC

  Obama administration sides with Argentina in case filed by ‘vulture funds’

  

  The US has sided with Argentina and asked a federal appeals court to reverse lower-court rulings stemming from bond holders’ attempts to collect on judgments against the Argentine Republic.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 23:16 UTC

  United Airlines inaugurates daily non-stop service between Newark and Buenos Aires

  

  United Airlines will begin daily non-stop service between its hub at Newark Liberty International Airport and Buenos Aires, Argentina's, Ministro Pistarini (Ezeiza) International Airport on April 6.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 23:06 UTC

  Argentina’s main grains export hub blocked by grounded vessel

  

  Tens of cargo ships are delayed in Argentina because a grain-bulk carrier has grounded in the Parana River, 150 kilometres south of the city of Rosario, which is the country’s grains and oil seeds hub.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:57 UTC

  Furious Chile demands an apology from Argentina’s former military governor of the Falklands

  

  The Chilean political system reacted angrily and demanded official apologies from the Argentine government following statements from former General Mario Menendez who said “Chileans behaved as pigs during the Malvinas war” three decades ago.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:51 UTC

  “We were prepared for war with Chile”, not in Malvinas admits former Argentine military governor

  

  The former military governor of the Malvinas Islands during the Argentine occupation said that the negative outcome of the war for Argentina can only be attributed to “negligence and improvisation”.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:45 UTC

  Argentina picks a fight with Brazil oil giant Petrobras and revokes oil concession

  

  Brazilian oil giant Petrobras assured that it has complied with all terms of its Argentine Patagonia Neuquén province oil exploitation contract, following provincial governor Jorge Sapag's announcement of the termination of the concession contract in Veta Escondida area.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:41 UTC

  Argentina denies plan to acquire stake in YPF but provinces continue to rescind concessions

  

  Argentina’s Planning Minister Julio de Vido denied a report by Buenos Aires newspaper Clarin that the government is working on a plan to use state-controlled pensions Anses to buy a stake in oil corporation YPF, he said in a statement.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 14:29 UTC

  Memorandum for Lady Thatcher on Chile’s support during Falklands’ conflict

  

  It is a well known and admitted fact that the Chilean regime of General Augusto Pinochet provided very useful intelligence to the British effort to recover the occupied Falkland Islands in 1982.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 23:55 UTC

  Half of Argentines believe Malvinas conflict ‘will never be solved’, shows poll

  

  Half of Argentines believe that the Falklands/Malvinas conflict over which Argentina and Britain went to war 30 years ago, will not be solved, but a clear majority have no doubts about the sovereignty issue, according to a public opinion poll released on Wednesday.