Argentina

• Friday, February 10th 2012 - 00:56 UTC

  State Department ratifies Falklands’ dispute is a bilateral Argentina/UK issue

  

  United States insisted that the Falklands/Malvinas dispute is a ‘bilateral’ issue between Argentina and the UK and again called on Buenos Aires and London to solve the issue peacefully, through dialogue.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 23:55 UTC

  Chilean community in Falklands march in support of the air link with Santiago

  

  One hundred members of the Chilean population living in the Falkland Islands were joined by 50 to 60 Islanders in a show of unity against the possibility that the weekly Lan Chile flight between Santiago and the Falklands might be discontinued at the request of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 23:17 UTC

  Mujica says Mercosur is “a chewing gum”; promises trade deals with third countries

  

  Mercosur from a real point of view exits, but institutionally it’s a “chewing gum” claimed Uruguayan president Jose Mujica who anticipated he would demand from the block’s partners that Uruguay be allowed to sign bilateral trade agreements with third parties.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 19:54 UTC

  “People of the Falklands want to remain British” and they will be defended

  

  UK Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday no one should doubt his determination to keep the Falkland Islands British as he dismissed President Cristina Fernández announced complaint to the United Nations.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 07:47 UTC

  Trade restrictions, main point of agenda when Cristina Fernandez visits Chile

  

  Santiago media reports increasing disappointment in the Chilean government and private sector with the latest batch of Argentine measures to restrict imports and want the issue ‘top of the agenda’ when President Cristina Fernandez visits Chile at the end of the month.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 07:44 UTC

  Argentina limits daily financial transaction per person to 1.000 Pesos (230 dollars)

  

  Argentina limited the use of cash in the country’s financial markets as President Cristina Fernandez tightens oversight of currency transactions to help contain capital flight and prepare for what is anticipated a ‘difficult’ year for the Treasury and the Argentine economy.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 07:42 UTC

  Argentine importers warn about ‘complications’ with new imports scheme

  

  The head of the Importers Chamber of Argentina, Diego Pérez Santisteban, warned that the new imports controls applied by the government “is complicated,” and affects the bigger companies more than the small and medium ones of the sector.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 07:40 UTC

  Argentine ‘Congress index’ shows January inflation reached 1.9%

  

  Argentine congress members announced on Wednesday that the inflation index for January based on an average of private sector estimates reached 1.9%, similar to the previous month of December.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 07:37 UTC

  Argentina has the (Central bank) cash to take over YPF, says Barclays Capital

  

  Argentina has the cash reserves to make a tender offer for Repsol-YPF SA local unit, the country’s largest energy company, and will likely put further pressure on the industry to boost output, has stated Barclays Capital.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 23:38 UTC

  Turn on your ‘sepoy’ detector and weed out the ‘anti-Malvinas traitors’

  

  Jorge Lanata is one of Argentina’s most famous and fierce journalists, feared by politicians and union leaders, famous for uncovering corruption and confronting the sacred cows of the country’s establishment. This week he made some controversial comments about the Malvinas Islands which rocked the whole country.