Argentina

Monday, December 26th 2011 - 11:18 UTC
The Guardian: “Britain is asleep over Argentina and the Falklands”

In a piece published last week in London daily The Guardian, and referred to the recent Mercosur support for Argentina in the Falkland Islands dispute, Richard Gott argues that a new scenario has emerged with South America growing in strength, increasingly united and no longer looking to Europe for support and advice which means a different framework for the Falkland Islands s sovereignty dispute.
Saturday, December 24th 2011 - 03:47 UTC
Merry Christmas from MercoPress

MercoPress wishes a happy holiday season to all its readers.
Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 22:48 UTC
The Inter American Press Association trusts Argentine law regulating newsprint will be declared unconstitutional

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today described as “malicious” attempts by the government of Argentina to control press freedom through adoption of a law on the manufacture, sale and commercialization of newsprint, and said it trusted that the judiciary would annul a “law that is clearly unconstitutional because of its subjugation of principles concerning freedom of expression.”
Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 21:25 UTC
Falklands’ flagged vessels conflict: Almagro and Hague agree they remain in disagreement

Uruguayan Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro spoke Friday on the phone with Foreign secretary William Hague for the first time since the Falklands/Malvinas’ flagged vessels controversy, but both sides apparently could only agree that the situation remains stalled according to brief statements
Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 18:27 UTC
Barring Falklands’ flagged vessels in “more symbolic than anything else”, says Uruguay port authority

Mercosur latest decision to bar all Falkland Islands flagged vessels from entering its ports is “more symbolic” than anything else because a change of flag is enough, according to Uruguay’s Ports Authority, ANP President Alberto Díaz.
Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 18:26 UTC
Two Argentine private charter planes land in the Falklands with 14 passengers

The Falkland Islands weekly Penguin News reports in its last edition that two Argentine aircraft carrying fourteen passengers for a cruise ship docked in Stanley landed last Saturday in the Islands Mount Pleasant Airport.
Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 14:44 UTC
Buenos Aires only accepts one outcome of talks: “turning Falklands into an Argentine colony”

Following the article published in “The Independent” dated 22nd December 2011, entitled “Time to talk about the Falklands”, the people of the Falkland Islands would like to make the following response.
Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 14:42 UTC
Shout it loud enough and even the good guys believe it

By John Fowler for Penguin News, Stanley, Falkland Islands - My first contact with Latin America came in 1971, when my wife and I spent four days in Montevideo while waiting for a ship to carry us to the Falkland Islands. We received such amazing hospitality and kindness from the Uruguayans we met then, that this small, but perfectly-formed country has had a place in my heart ever since.
Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 14:37 UTC
Uruguay criticizes Mercosur for shortcomings in trade and infrastructure

One day after the summit in Montevideo, Uruguay criticized the functioning of Mercosur, particularly the lack of cooperation, trade barriers and impediments and delays to essential infrastructure works for the group.
Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 05:32 UTC
The Independent: “Time to talk about the Falklands”

In an Opinion piece, “Time to talk about the Falklands”, The Independent suggests the time might have come to defuse the situation in the South Atlantic and take up last year’s offer from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to broker between Britain and Argentina.