Argentina

• Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 09:05 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez takes off with 42% vote intention and 25 points lead

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has a 42% vote intention and in some districts of the country her support soars to 70%, according to consultants Public Opinion Studies, Centre, CEOP, released on Wednesday. Similarly Cristina Fernandez has at least a 25 points lead over her closest runner up.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 - 23:11 UTC

  Argentina’s Clarin owner siblings to have DNA blood tests on Friday

  

  The (adopted) heirs of one of Argentina’s most powerful media conglomerates will have blood samples taken in a Buenos Aires hospital on Friday after they decided to voluntarily have DNA tests to determine whether they coincide with DNA samples of relatives from people killed during the Argentine dictatorship (1976/1983).-

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 - 00:44 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez announces re-election bid: “I always knew what I had to do”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced Tuesday evening she will be seeking re-election in the next October presidential elections. “I always knew what I had to do but I decided to wait until today to announce it” she said.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 19:27 UTC

  Falklands publicly invites Decolonization Committee president to visit the Islands

  

  Falklands’ representative publicly invited the president of the UN Decolonization Committee to see for himself the reality of the self-sufficient and self-governing Islands, and called on C24 to recognize “the primacy of our right to self determination above anything and everything else”.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 17:44 UTC

  Argentina reaffirms Malvinas sovereignty rights; invites UK to “good faith” negotiations

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman addressing the United Nations Decolonisation Committee reiterated Argentina’s “unrenounceable and imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the Malvinas Islands and extended a “formal invitation” to the British government “to sit to a table and resume, in good faith, negotiations” to solve the long standing dispute.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 05:08 UTC

  Falklands born James Peck has no plans to give up his British passport

  

  The Falkland Islands born artist James Peck who last week was handed personally by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Argentine citizenship papers in a much publicized event, revealed in an interview with The Times that he had been threatened.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 03:57 UTC

  Struggling to preserve Falklands’ self-determination in the South Atlantic

  

  (*) By Roger Edwards and Dick Sawle
  Visiting the United States, with its bustling streets in Washington and Manhattan, is always a bit of a culture shock for a Falkland Islander. While we have much in common – a shared ancestry and language, and the democratic values that underpin our societies – we have a few differences too.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 03:46 UTC

  A million acres estancia in north-west Argentina on sale

  

  Estancia Punta del Agua, probably the largest ever block of freehold land to come onto the market in north Argentina is being sold by London based agent Savills. The estate in San Juan province in the north west of the country is currently owned by a family company and is described as having enormous potential for agricultural or eco power possibilities.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 03:21 UTC

  Argentine-Italian group invests in RD for the Brazilian oil industry

  

  The Argentine-Italian group Tenaris announced it will begin the construction of its Research & Development Center in July 2011. The new facility will be located in the Rio Technology Park at Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 02:28 UTC

  Brazil fears disclosure of ‘nuclear secrets’ could affect relations with Argentina

  

  Brazilian Defence and diplomatic sources consider ‘highly inconvenient’ disclosing documents from the time of the military dictatorship (1964/1985) and from other administrations because they could reveal nuclear secrets and affect relations with Argentina, according to Folha de Sao Paulo.