Argentina

Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 21:31 UTC
Brazilian president ‘votes’ for Cristina Fernandez and anticipates re-election

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said she is convinced of her Argentine peer Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner re-election victory next October 23. Argentina is Brazil’s main associate in Mercosur and third trade partner.
Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 17:53 UTC
The volcanic ash cloud fools forecasts: flights to Argentine Patagonia delayed

The Puyehue volcano ash cloud has again fooled forecasts and submitted air travellers to further misery. A number of flights to Argentine Patagonia were cancelled Thursday morning due to the shift in the movement of the lingering ash cloud and was predicted to reach Buenos Aires Province over the course of the next few hours.
Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 17:49 UTC
Argentine Patagonia faces major agriculture and tourism disaster

While air passengers in the Southern hemisphere continue exposed to the vicissitudes of the volcanic ash cloud Patagonian farmers have a much serious problem: feeding 1.5 million sheep and livestock when fields are covered with sludge of volcanic debris and snow.
Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 09:05 UTC
Cristina Fernandez takes off with 42% vote intention and 25 points lead

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has a 42% vote intention and in some districts of the country her support soars to 70%, according to consultants Public Opinion Studies, Centre, CEOP, released on Wednesday. Similarly Cristina Fernandez has at least a 25 points lead over her closest runner up.
Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 - 23:11 UTC
Argentina’s Clarin owner siblings to have DNA blood tests on Friday

The (adopted) heirs of one of Argentina’s most powerful media conglomerates will have blood samples taken in a Buenos Aires hospital on Friday after they decided to voluntarily have DNA tests to determine whether they coincide with DNA samples of relatives from people killed during the Argentine dictatorship (1976/1983).-
Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 - 00:44 UTC
Cristina Fernandez announces re-election bid: “I always knew what I had to do”

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced Tuesday evening she will be seeking re-election in the next October presidential elections. “I always knew what I had to do but I decided to wait until today to announce it” she said.
Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 19:27 UTC
Falklands publicly invites Decolonization Committee president to visit the Islands

Falklands’ representative publicly invited the president of the UN Decolonization Committee to see for himself the reality of the self-sufficient and self-governing Islands, and called on C24 to recognize “the primacy of our right to self determination above anything and everything else”.
Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 17:44 UTC
Argentina reaffirms Malvinas sovereignty rights; invites UK to “good faith” negotiations

Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman addressing the United Nations Decolonisation Committee reiterated Argentina’s “unrenounceable and imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the Malvinas Islands and extended a “formal invitation” to the British government “to sit to a table and resume, in good faith, negotiations” to solve the long standing dispute.
Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 05:08 UTC
Falklands born James Peck has no plans to give up his British passport

The Falkland Islands born artist James Peck who last week was handed personally by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Argentine citizenship papers in a much publicized event, revealed in an interview with The Times that he had been threatened.
Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 03:57 UTC
Struggling to preserve Falklands’ self-determination in the South Atlantic

(*) By Roger Edwards and Dick Sawle
Visiting the United States, with its bustling streets in Washington and Manhattan, is always a bit of a culture shock for a Falkland Islander. While we have much in common – a shared ancestry and language, and the democratic values that underpin our societies – we have a few differences too.