Argentina

• Friday, March 5th 2010 - 06:56 UTC

  Argentina: Defiant Cristina: “this president will pay debts with central bank reserves”

  

  Argentina's president defiantly vowed on Thursday to tap billions of dollars in foreign currency reserves to pay debt, in spite of Congress and the Judiciary, but also appealed a court order blocking her latest attempt to use the funds.

• Friday, March 5th 2010 - 06:49 UTC

  Central bank acting president, first victim of political clash in Argentina

  

  Argentina’s central bank interim chief seems condemned to be the first victim of the political clash between the Executive and Congress over the government’s use of central bank reserves to pay maturing debt in 2010.

• Thursday, March 4th 2010 - 21:12 UTC

  What can Argentina gain from another Falklands dispute?

  

  The Washington Post published this week an editorial on the current Falkland Islands situation arguing that “you know that an Argentine leader must be in political trouble” if the subject of the South Atlantic Islands comes up again.

• Thursday, March 4th 2010 - 03:35 UTC

  Argentine opposition has majority control of both Congress houses

  

  Argentina’s opposition senators on Wednesday won majority control of all the chamber’s committees, undermining President Cristina Fernandez’s de Kirchner’s ability to pass legislation more than two years after she took office.

• Thursday, March 4th 2010 - 01:17 UTC

  Two men make history as first gay marriage in the city of Buenos Aires

  

  After a long judicial battle two men married on Wednesday in Buenos Aires City in what was Argentina's second gay marriage, a rights group confirmed.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2010 - 19:53 UTC

  Britain rejects US offer to help UK and Argentina resolve Falklands’ dispute

  

  Downing Street has rejected an offer from the United States to help the UK and Argentina resolve their latest dispute over the Falkland Islands. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the offer after renewed tensions were triggered with the beginning of a round of exploratory oil drilling in the Islands’ waters.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2010 - 05:11 UTC

  Falklands: Argentina formally request Hillary Clinton US mediation

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner formally requested visiting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the United States act as intermediate in the Argentine-United Kingdom Falkland Islands dispute.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2010 - 02:21 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner ratified before Congress use of central bank reserves to pay debts

  

  President Cristina Fernandez revoked on Monday a controversial “necessity and urgency” decree to tap 6.6 billion US dollars in foreign reserves from the Central Bank to pay debt replacing it with two new decreed to tap about 4.38 billion USD and 2.18 billion USD to pay private and multilateral creditors (World Bank).

• Monday, March 1st 2010 - 05:56 UTC

  Hillary Clinton adds Buenos Aires to her Latinamerican tour

  

  United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will add Argentina to her Latinamerican tour which begins Monday at the inauguration of Uruguayan president elect Jose Mujica in Montevideo, U.S. officials said on Sunday.

• Monday, March 1st 2010 - 01:39 UTC

  Argentina warns BHP Billiton about drilling in Falklands’ waters

  

  Argentina's ambassador to Australia says Melbourne based mining group BHP Billiton will face business sanctions if it pushes ahead with oil exploration in Falklands waters. BHP has a licence to explore off the Falkland Islands and is scheduled to start doing so in the next four months, reports Australian Broadcasting Corporation.