Argentina

• Monday, December 19th 2011 - 01:35 UTC

  Spain criticizes Argentina for trying to intercept fishing vessel when leaving Montevideo

  

  Spanish ambassador in Uruguay Aurora Diaz-Rato criticized Argentina following an incident with an Argentine Coast Guard unit which tried to intercept a Spanish flagged vessel when exiting Montevideo en route to the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, December 19th 2011 - 01:08 UTC

  Uruguayan navy air patrol escorts Spanish fishing vessel heading for Falklands

  

  As Spanish vessel with Falkland Islands fishing licence was harassed Saturday morning by the Argentine Coast Guard on leaving the port of Montevideo for the South Atlantic and had to reroute course in Uruguayan waters until reaching the high seas.

• Saturday, December 17th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Uruguayan Foreign Minister says Falklands are an “inadmissible colonial enclave”

  

  Uruguay considers that British control over the Falklands or Malvinas Islands constitutes a “colonial enclave”, which is “inadmissible”, and that is why Falklands’ flagged vessels are barred from entering Uruguayan ports, said on Friday Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro.

• Saturday, December 17th 2011 - 05:00 UTC

  First CFK reply to Moyano: “best way to defend workers is to look after government”

  

  ”The best way to defend workers is to look after the government” said Argentine Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, the first official response to organized labour union boss Hugo Moyano speech on Thursday to a packed stadium of 80.000 roaring teamsters

• Saturday, December 17th 2011 - 04:51 UTC

  Powerful leader of organized labour breaks away from Cristina Fernandez

  

  In a high voltage exchange with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, the head of the powerful organized labour unions CGT, Hugo Moyano said he was stepping down from all his posts in the ruling Peronist movement since it had become “an empty shell void of Peronism” but would continue fighting for the workers movement which is the essence of Peronism.

• Saturday, December 17th 2011 - 03:24 UTC

  Argentine ‘official’ November inflation reached 0.6% and 8.6% in eleven months

  

  The consumer price index in Argentina during the month of November increased 0.6% according to the official stats office Indec, which is less than half the percentage released by private estimates through the so called Congress inflation index.

• Friday, December 16th 2011 - 19:04 UTC

  UK discussing with Uruguay officials docking ban for Falklands flagged vessels

  

  The British Embassy in Montevideo is discussing with Uruguayan authorities the implications of President Jose Mujica public statement that Falklands/Malvinas flagged vessels “are banned from docking in the port of Montevideo”.

• Friday, December 16th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  Mujica denies Argentine pressure, but confirms Falklands flagged vessels are banned

  

  Uruguayan President José ‘Pepe’ Mujica denied on Thursday afternoon suffering pressure from the Argentine government to restrict British ships from docking at Montevideo’s ports.

• Friday, December 16th 2011 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentine economy roaring at 9.3% in third quarter, announced CFK

  

  Argentina’s economy expanded in the third quarter at the fastest pace since 2003, said President Cristina Fernandez on Thursday during a visit to a Toyota Motor Corp. plant in the province of Buenos Aires

• Thursday, December 15th 2011 - 19:53 UTC

  Argentina bullying Uruguay on canal dredging and Falkland Islands flagged vessels

  

  Uruguay has banned the docking of Falklands/Malvinas flagged vessel in the port of Montevideo, following on complaints from Argentina that several fishing vessels with that flag, in recent months had been operating from Montevideo.