Argentina

• Monday, March 14th 2011 - 06:58 UTC

  CFK on the re-election campaign trail as the ‘natural candidate’

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is the “natural candidate” for next October election to ensure the continuation of the current productive and job creating model, according to several cabinet ministers who attended a political rally in support of the still undeclared candidate.

• Monday, March 14th 2011 - 06:53 UTC

  Why CFK turned her back on the Obama-mania spell and returned to Chavez

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) behind doors in Government House criticized her peer from Venezuela Hugo Chavez saying “he speaks before stopping to think” and praised US president Barack Obama insisting she was interested in having “closer relations with United States”, according to the latest revelations from Wikileaks.

• Sunday, March 13th 2011 - 00:47 UTC

  Argentina forgets the US Air Force incident and says relations are “excellent”

  

  Relations between Argentina and the United States are ‘excellent’ said ultra ‘Kirchnerite’ lawmaker Carlos Kunkel who discarded as ‘interested parties’ versions indicating certain ‘discomfort’ in President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner administration with the coming visit of President Barack Obama to El Salvador, Chile and Brazil.

• Saturday, March 12th 2011 - 23:12 UTC

  New Decolonization Committee president invited to visit Argentina

  

  Argentina is multiplying its international presence to boost the sovereignty claim over the Islas Malvinas, which next June 23, ‘as every year will be ratified’ by the UN Decolonization Committee, said Argentine ambassador at the UN Jorge Argüello according to a report from Telam, the official Argentine news agency.

• Saturday, March 12th 2011 - 05:43 UTC

  Argentina creates first political wine: ‘El Justicialista’ to honour President Peron

  

  Three times Argentine president Juan Domingo Peron has his own brand of wine, “El Justicialista” following on the name of the populist movement the General founded in the late forties last century and has dominated Argentina politics ever since.

• Friday, March 11th 2011 - 04:43 UTC

  How Argentina torpedoed Uruguay’s FTA with the US, according to Wikileaks

  

  Although in public former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was supportive of Uruguay’s negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, members of his cabinet warned the US embassy in Buenos Aires that Argentina would block such an initiative in Mercosur, according to the contents of several Wikileaks cables published in Montevideo and Buenos Aires.

• Friday, March 11th 2011 - 04:12 UTC

  Setback for Timerman: judge files case involving US Air Force aircraft

  

  A new delicate situation has emerged for Argentina’s Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman after a judge decided to file the case involving the seizing of allegedly “sensitive material” from a US Air Force aircraft that landed in Buenos Aires main airport last month.

• Thursday, March 10th 2011 - 06:56 UTC

  London with no Argentine ambassador until at least 2012 to protest Falklands’ oil round

  

  The Argentine legation in London will remain without an ambassador until at least the end of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner four year mandate next December, confirmed diplomatic sources in Buenos Aires. The decision was originally taken to protest the current (second) round of oil exploration in the Falkland Islands’ waters.

• Thursday, March 10th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  The Kirchner camp sets out strategy for October’s presidential election

  

  Argentina’s Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, called on all political parties that would like to support the Victory Front’s presidential candidate next October and be part of the so called “combined-list ballots” to do it without fears or restrictions.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 22:52 UTC

  “Argentina has not learnt the 2001 lesson, nor have many investors the 2008 crisis”

  

  “There is no evidence that Argentina has learnt the lesson from the 2001 crisis”, said Carmen Reinhart one of the most influential US economists and an expert in Latin America, who has worked for the IMF, in Wall Street and teaches at the University of Maryland.