Argentina

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 23:41 UTC

  Uruguay celebrated the bicentennial with a huge colourful popular party

  

  Uruguay celebrated Monday October 10 the bicentennial of its emancipation process with a great colourful, open party that attracted over 300.000 people to the streets and stages in the capital Montevideo.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 23:36 UTC

  “Argentina is not to blame” says father of one or the French girls killed in Salta

  

  The father of one of the two French tourists who were murdered in the northern Argentine province of Salta in July, Jean Michel Bouvier, spoke on French radio saying that his daughter Cassandre and Houria Moumni “lived through true martyrdom,” but that “Argentina is not to blame, my daughter knew that the country has a lower crime rate than most”.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 07:13 UTC

  Brazil is a “decisive partner” for Argentina in the event of a major crisis

  

  For Argentina, Brazil is a “decisive partner” in addressing the negative effects of the world economic crisis which has hit the United States and the European Union, said on Monday Argentina’s Deputy Economy minister Roberto Feletti.

• Monday, October 10th 2011 - 22:53 UTC

  CFK main presidential competitor promises “responsible opposition”

  

  The Argentine Socialist Frente Amplio Progresista’s (FAP) presidential candidate Hermes Binner assured that if he doesn’t make it to a second round after October 23rd, his party will be part of a “responsible opposition.”

• Monday, October 10th 2011 - 07:58 UTC

  Paris Club group lays out terms for Argentina to repay defaulted debt

  

  Members of the Paris Club group of creditors want Argentina to repay an estimated 9 billion dollars in defaulted debt within three years and to make a big initial payment, Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion reported over the weekend.

• Monday, October 10th 2011 - 05:41 UTC

  CFK election win could be largest since return of democracy to Argentina in 1983

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez, CFK, is poised for an easy win with over 50% of vote intention for the October 23 election, according to several public opinion polls published over the weekend in the Buenos Aires press.

• Sunday, October 9th 2011 - 09:45 UTC

  Killers of French women tourists in Argentina described as ‘psychotic fabulist”

  

  At least two of the three suspects currently under arrest in connection to the murder of two French tourists in the Argentine northern province of Salta last July, show signs of “psychotic, fabulist” behaviour, police authorities indicated.

• Saturday, October 8th 2011 - 08:23 UTC

  Argentine proposal to issue coins commemorative of the Fakland/Malvinas War 30 anniversary

  

  The Argentine Congress Foreign Affairs Commission supported a motion from a Tierra del Fuego Deputy for a special coins issue commemorative of the thirtieth anniversary of the (1982) Argentine Islas Malvinas epic geste.

• Friday, October 7th 2011 - 22:12 UTC

  Half a million families live in Buenos Aires slums and keep expanding vertically and horizontally

  

  Over half a million families live in 864 slums and irregular settlements in metropolitan Buenos Aires surrounding Argentina’s capital. Of this number 66% have over fifteen years since founded and in 65% of them expansion either horizontally or vertically continues.

• Friday, October 7th 2011 - 21:17 UTC

  Freedom of expression oppressed and endangered in Argentina claims independent media

  

  Argentina’s main private media association, ADEPA, launched a devastating report on freedom of expression in Argentina and warns of the existence of “a mechanism geared to divulge official reports and aggrieve those who think differently”.