Argentina

• Saturday, May 29th 2010 - 01:28 UTC

  Argentines the most anxious of Latinamerica and at world level

  

  Argentines are the most anxious people in Latinamerica and rank among the most nervous at world level according to an international opinion poll which reveals that eight out of ten residents in Argentina admit to suffering some sort of anxiety.

• Friday, May 28th 2010 - 04:51 UTC

  Argentina wins appeal on damage award to thousands of defaulted bond holders

  

  US federal appeals court threw out a 2.24 billion US dollars damage award to tens of thousands of investors who held defaulted Argentine sovereign bonds, saying a lower court erred in calculating an “inflated” sum.

• Friday, May 28th 2010 - 04:27 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner meets Lula da Silva to discuss bilateral trade differences

  

  In the midst of the tension between Argentina and Brazil, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will meet Friday with Brazilian President Lula Da Silva after both take part in the 3rd annual United Nations “Alliance of Civilizations” Summit taking place in Rio do Janeiro.

• Thursday, May 27th 2010 - 23:47 UTC

  Argentina confirms poor squid season and closes fishery south of parallel 44

  

  Argentina’s squid fishery to the south of parallel 44º was closed last Friday. The measure adopted by the Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) follows scientific information furnished by the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP).

• Thursday, May 27th 2010 - 09:18 UTC

  Taiana admits Tories are ‘tougher’ on Malvinas but promises a ‘hot’ June

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Taiana admitted that the new conservative British government of PM David Cameron is taking ”a tougher stance” than its predecessors towards the Argentine claim on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands' sovereignty.

• Thursday, May 27th 2010 - 09:11 UTC

  Argentina’s delay in dispatching imports is irritating trade partners

  

  Since the controversial Argentine Interior Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno announced in an April 23 letter that he will examine overseas purchases to consider the competitiveness of the national market, products worth millions of dollars have been delayed at Argentina’s borders and ports.

• Thursday, May 27th 2010 - 08:51 UTC

  More shadows than lights in Amnesty’s annual report on Argentina

  

  Amnesty International (AI) expressed its “deep concern” regarding male violence towards women and the current prison situation in Argentina, where the evictions of indigenous communities from their ancestral lands was also denounced.

• Wednesday, May 26th 2010 - 06:21 UTC

  Argentina, full of confidence at home and abroad, including the Malvinas Islands

  

  Argentina formally appealed to the British government to discuss sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands in a column signed by Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana, published Tuesday in The Guardian in coincidence with the commemoration of Argentina’s bicentenary.

• Wednesday, May 26th 2010 - 06:09 UTC

  Buenos Aires re-inaugurates an impressive re-furbished Teatro Colon

  

  Buenos Aires iconic Colón Theatre, probably the world’s most impressive opera house known for its acoustics, shone once again Monday evening with a gala that launched its re-opening after a three-year restoration process, as the milestone of Argentina’s Bicentenary celebrations.

• Wednesday, May 26th 2010 - 05:48 UTC

  US Judge seizes 2.43 billion USD Argentine government deposits in New York

  

  New York Federal Judge Thomas Griesa seized 2.43 billion US dollars that Argentina’s government owned Banco Nación had deposited in the city in response to a claim presented by a group of Argentine bondholders that did not make it into the debt-swap.