Argentina

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 14:35 UTC

  Alarming contraction of hake biomass in Argentine breeding grounds

  

  The breeding grounds of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) located in the San Jorge gulf, Argentine Patagonia are showing alarming signs of a loss of biomass, concludes a report authored by the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development, (INIDEP).

• Saturday, April 17th 2010 - 06:29 UTC

  Argentina’s “next step” is to negotiate 7.5 billion debt with the Paris Club

  

  After unveiling Argentina's debt-swap details Thursday, Economy Minister Amado Boudou said on Friday that the next step is to negotiate the 7.5 billion dollar debt Argentina maintains with the Paris Club.

• Saturday, April 17th 2010 - 06:25 UTC

  Judge declares “null and non existent” first lesbian marriage in Argentina

  

  A Buenos Aires judge voided on Friday the marriage last week of two women, the first union of its kind in Argentina, judicial officials said.

• Saturday, April 17th 2010 - 03:26 UTC

  Mujica and Mrs. Kirchner prepare for the “day after” The Hague ruling

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica and his Argentine peer Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet in Buenos Aires the day after the International Court of Justice rules on the pulp mill dispute which has soured bilateral relations between the neighbouring countries since 2006.

• Friday, April 16th 2010 - 04:17 UTC

  Argentine bonds’ swap could not be sufficient, warn anks

  

  In spite of Argentine authorities optimism regarding the 20 billion USD bonds’ swap launched on Thursday the Institute of International Finance, (IIF), warned that the initiative could be insufficient to re-establish the country’s full access to voluntary money markets.

• Friday, April 16th 2010 - 04:09 UTC

  Argentina launches defaulted bonds swap with a 66.3% discount

  

  Argentina offered new bonds to holders of 20 billion US dollars of sovereign debt left out of an earlier settlement, seeking to end a nine-year default and regain access to international capital markets.

• Friday, April 16th 2010 - 03:58 UTC

  Shrimp vessels to be ordered to use selectivity devices

  

  The subsecretary of Argentine Fisheries and Aquaculture, Norberto Yauhar, is planning to urgently implement measures to conserve the population of hake (Merluccius hubbsi) juveniles in the north Patagonian breeding ground.

• Friday, April 16th 2010 - 01:46 UTC

  Argentine Judge annuls first gay union, but Congress set to vote same-sex marriage bill

  

  A judge in Argentina has annulled the first gay marriage in Latin America, state media said Thursday, but the two men in the groundbreaking union said they would appeal the decision.

• Thursday, April 15th 2010 - 05:53 UTC

  Argentina to resume nuclear program in cooperation with Russia

  

  Russian President Dimitri Medvedev met with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to commemorate 125 years of bilateral relations between Argentina and Russia and to sign several cooperation agreements in different fields including helping Argentina to develop its nuclear program.

• Thursday, April 15th 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  Kirchner victory as Senate ratifies nomination of Central Bank governor

  

  The Argentine Senate finally approved the nomination of economist Mercedes Marcó del Pont as president of the Central Bank, post for which she was named by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner last February.