Argentina

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 23:08 UTC

  Buenos Aires City Mayor fined for riding a motorcycle without a helmet

  

  Buenos Aires City Traffic Safety Committee confirmed that City Mayor Mauricio Macri has been fined for having ridden on a motorcycle without a helmet.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 20:55 UTC

  Positive outlook for the Argentine economy according to international bank

  

  Argentine stocks are poised to a boost from a likely decline in the nation’s credit risk by year-end and the presidential elections in 2011, according to analysts from Spain’s Banco Santander, one of the leading financial institutions in Latinamerica.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 06:06 UTC

  Argentina reaffirms “exclusive authority” over all Falklands’ hydrocarbons activities

  

  Argentina reaffirmed “exclusive authority” over all hydrocarbons activities in the Islas Malvinas territory and maritime spaces in a strong release to commemorate June 10th, Day of Argentina’s Sovereignty Rights over Malvinas.

• Friday, June 11th 2010 - 00:04 UTC

  Taiana announces in Shanghai Cristina’s official visit to China next July

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is scheduled to make an official visit to China and meet with President Hu Jintao next July, announced Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana during his visit to the Argentine pavilion in the Shanghai World Expo.

• Thursday, June 10th 2010 - 07:04 UTC

  Beginning of the end to Argentine pickets blocking bridge leading to Uruguay

  

  Argentina has filed criminal and civil charges against activists who have been blocking a bridge leading to Uruguay for over four years, announced on Wednesday cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez. The charges mark a sharp departure from the hands-off line taken up to now with the activists.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:13 UTC

  Federal Judge says Argentine government must guarantee “free circulation”

  

  An Argentine federal Judge confirmed that the government should “guarantee the free circulation” of the bridge that links the Argentine city of Gualeguaychú with the Uruguayan city Fray Bentos.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:10 UTC

  US dollar breaks through the 4 pesos barrier in Buenos Aires informal market

  

  The new foreign currency controls that begun to be applied this week in Argentina had a marginal incidence in formal operations Tuesday, but in the parallel informal market the US dollar, under strong demand shot past the 4 Pesos milestone.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:05 UTC

  Chilean ambassador in Argentina resigns for downplaying Pinochet regime

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera accepted on Tuesday the resignation of the Ambassador in Argentina, Miguel Otero Lathrop, who had assured during an interview last Sunday that most Chileans did not suffer Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. His comments triggered a barrage of criticisms both in Chile and Argentina.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 01:32 UTC

  OAS assembly gives full support to Argentina’s Malvinas claim

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) ratified support of the Argentine demand to seek dialogue with the United Kingdom in order to find a peaceful and definitive solution to the ‘colonialism situation’ of the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia, and South Sandwich and the surrounding maritime areas.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  PM Cameron reiterates full support for Falklands’ freedom and self determination

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated the support of his government for the freedom and self determination of the Falkland Islands, in a letter addressed to members of the Islands’ Legislative Assembly which was made public on Monday.