Argentina

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 06:25 UTC

  Brazil reiterates Falklands-flagged vessels will be banned from entering its ports

  

  Brazil reiterated its intention of banning all Falklands’ flagged vessels from calling at the country’s ports and described as “illegal” the current round of oil exploration in the Islands’ waters.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 05:44 UTC

  Argentine police on the track of two French tourist packers killed in Salta

  

  Police in the Argentine north-west province of Salta reported to have two suspects following a wide search Sunday across the local area of San Lorenzo for the killer of the two French tourists whose bodies were found on Friday, officials reported.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 05:36 UTC

  Re-elected Bs. As. City mayor to meet all presidential candidates, even CFK

  

  Re-elected Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri gave his victory speech after defeating Kirchnerite Daniel Filmus on Sunday, and said his party (PRO) would begin the process of deciding which of the presidential candidates to support in Argentina’s general elections of next October.

• Saturday, July 30th 2011 - 22:33 UTC

  Cristina and Dilma reaffirm ‘strategic alliance and commitment to Mercosur

  

  Argentina and Brazil reaffirmed on Friday their strategic alliance and commitment to Mercosur and regional integration during a summit in Brasilia, where President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner together with her Brazilian peer Dilma Rousseff inaugurated the new Argentine Embassy in the Brazilian capital.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 07:25 UTC

  One officer and 3 civilians killed during eviction of a landsite in north Argentina

  

  A shootout between police and civilians in Argentina’s northern province of Jujuy left one officer and four protesters dead plus more than 30 injured, after clashes occurred during the eviction of more than four hundred families from a land site.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 07:17 UTC

  Bank of Nova Scotia drops legal actions against Argentina for 600m dollars

  

  Argentina’s central bank said the Bank of Nova Scotia dropped legal actions against the country under which it sought 600 million dollars.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 07:08 UTC

  Repsol-YPF earnings hit by civil war in Libya and labour strikes in Argentina

  

  Repsol-YPF, Spain’s largest oil company, said second-quarter earnings fell 7.3% after refining margins narrowed and output declined because of the civil war in Libya and strikes in Argentina.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 06:22 UTC

  President Cristina Fernandez “disregards and looks down on the rural sector”

  

  A respected reference in Argentine politics, Senator Carlos Reutemann came out strongly this week in support of farmers saying that the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, (CFK), “disregards and looks down on the rural sector”.

• Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 11:34 UTC

  Volcanic ash cloud dissipates and Buenos Aires airports return to normal activity

  

  Activity in Buenos Aires Metropolitan airport slowly resumed its normal pace on Wednesday as Aerolíneas Argentinas, Austral and Lan airlines announced they resumed their operations, after cancelling them due to volcanic ash cloud.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 04:54 UTC

  Argentina confident negotiations on Malvinas question ‘will take place’

  

  Britain can’t go on shielding behind its membership of the UN Security Council to avoid dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas question, but Argentina is confident “negotiations will take place” said Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman in Paris following a meeting with his French peer Alain Juppé.