Argentina

• Friday, January 27th 2012 - 02:51 UTC

  Argentine Senate and House of Commons absorbed by Falklands’ debate

  

  A new round of exchanges on the Falklands/Malvinas dispute took place on Thursday when an Argentine Senate Committee unanimously voted in favour of debating a declaration bill “strongly repudiating” British Prime Minister David Cameron’s “colonialist” statements, while a British minister accused Argentina of “sabre-rattling.”

• Friday, January 27th 2012 - 02:28 UTC

  Alicia Castro is Argentina’s ambassador to London; last posting was Venezuela

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández appointed Alicia Castro, 62, as ambassador to the United Kingdom, and the British government has accepted her credentials, the Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday.

• Thursday, January 26th 2012 - 19:05 UTC

  HMS Protector reaches Antarctica, visits Uruguayan and Argentine bases

  

  HMS Protector, the Royal Navy's new ice patrol ship, has arrived in Antarctica for the first time after her long sail south from Portsmouth. Her arrival, via Montevideo in Uruguay, coincided with the centenary of the Royal Navy's Captain Scott reaching the South Pole.

• Thursday, January 26th 2012 - 05:11 UTC

  Global crisis reaches Argentina’s shores “but we are going to have a good year”

  

  Argentina’s Economy Minister Hernán Lorenzino admitted on Thursday that the global economic crisis has had an impact on the country but nevertheless “we are going to have a good year”.

• Thursday, January 26th 2012 - 04:28 UTC

  CFK on Malvinas: in this upside down world “we are called colonialists and bad guys”

  

  Fully recovered from the thyroidectomy and with her irony sharp as ever, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, resumed office on Wednesday and in an hour plus colloquial speech in Casa Rosada spent a good twenty minutes talking about Malvinas, colonialism and promised more rigour in the campaign to have the UK sit and discuss Falklands sovereignty.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 23:51 UTC

  UK says Falklands’ self determination is a universal right enshrined in UN charter

  

  The UK will not negotiate the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty “until the Islander so wish to” said on Wednesday a spokesperson from the Foreign Office.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 23:45 UTC

  Argentina’s policy of isolating and intimidating the Falklands reaches the EU

  

  The Falkland Islands urged the EU Commission to ensure that the rights of citizens of Overseas Counties and Territories are not compromised in relations with countries and regional bodies.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 20:17 UTC

  Inflation haunts Argentine government and organized labour relations

  

  All bridges with the government are not broken, said a representative from Argentina’s powerful organized labour adding he expected relations will improve since both union and business leaders “know how far they can go” when it comes to collective bargaining.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 07:49 UTC

  Boudou says ‘house in order’ as President Cristina Fernandez prepares for the comeback

  

  In his last public appearance as Argentine acting President, Vice-President Amado Boudou announced on Tuesday the figures of 2011’s fiscal surplus and gave a strong defence of the Kirchner economic inclusive development model.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2012 - 04:12 UTC

  President Cristina Fernandez resumes office on Wednesday “stronger than ever”

  

  Argentine Acting President Amado Boudou announced on Monday that Cristina Fernández is “stronger than ever” and will resume her activities on Wednesday after her medical leave absence due to a false-positive thyroid cancer surgery last 4 January.