Argentina

• Monday, February 27th 2012 - 04:10 UTC

  The train tragedy and patriotism in Cristina Fernandez Monday public program

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez resumes her public agenda on Monday and there are great expectations since she will be heading a ceremony celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Argentine flag and it will be her first public exposure following last week’s train accident that left 51 dead and over 700 injured.

• Sunday, February 26th 2012 - 07:45 UTC

  Argentine all-party lawmakers group ratify Malvinas sovereignty claim in Ushuaia

  

  Argentine lawmakers from the entire political arch stamped on Saturday their support to the so called “Ushuaia declaration” claiming sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and calling for dialogue with the UK to overcome the ongoing dispute.

• Saturday, February 25th 2012 - 15:18 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: an open letter to Sean Penn

  

  Dear Sean,
  I am writing in response to your comment in today's Guardian (23 February). We seem to have missed each other when you were recently in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 21:37 UTC

  Growing uproar in Argentina with the concession trains and transport system

  

  Argentina’s Auditor-General Leandro Despouy stated that TBA which holds the Sarmiento and Mitre train lines’ concessions should automatically lose all contracts after the fatal train crash that killed 50 and left more than 700 injured in Once Central Station in downtown Buenos Aires.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 20:38 UTC

  Uruguay admits textile exports could be infringing Brazil’s antidumping rules

  

  Uruguay’s Minister of Industry and Energy Roberto Kreimerman admitted that Brazil suspended the access of textiles from Uruguay alleging that they were essentially Chinese cloth rolls with minimum input but stamped as Uruguayan manufactured and dispatched to Brazil.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 19:14 UTC

  The Malvinas/Falklands: diplomacy interrupted

  

  Sending Prince William to the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, gives out a message of intimidation. By Sean Penn

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:53 UTC

  Visiting US congressman offers support for Falklands’ self-determination

  

  South American rhetoric on the Falklands should, “be cooled, otherwise mistakes might happen,” US member of the house of Representatives Republican Congressman F. Jim Sensenbrenner told the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly on Thursday.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentine claims of Falklands’ ‘militarization’ is ‘unfounded and baseless’

  

  Argentine claims that the UK is ‘militarizing’ the South Atlantic and the Falklands are ‘unfounded’ and ‘baseless’ according to a letter from British ambassador Mark Lyall-Grant addressed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:38 UTC

  Argentina and the price of cooking the books, according to The Economist

  

  History has left Argentines with more than their share of economic trauma. Having twice suffered destructive bouts of hyperinflation in the late 1980s, they are sensitive to rising prices. When they spot inflation their instinct is to dump the peso and buy dollars.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 00:34 UTC

  Argentine government will act as main plaintiff in train crash investigation

  

  The Argentine government announced Thursday it would act a plaintiff, in defence of the public interest, in the investigation of the Wednesday train crash that killed 50 people and left over 700 injured.