Argentina

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 20:14 UTC

  Messi’s Facebook page collects 7 million Likes in just a few hours

  

  Few hours after Argentine football star Lionel Messi started a Facebook Page, the Barcelona's striker has almost 7 million Likes.

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 10:06 UTC

  Argentina under pressure to approve anti money-laundering legislation

  

  The Argentine administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called Wednesday on the opposition lawmakers to pass an anti money laundering bill before June other wise Argentina could be black-listed for not having the proper controls.

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 09:08 UTC

  “If we don’t unite, Cristina beats us with 40% of the vote”, warns Duhalde

  

  Argentina’s presidential hopeful and former caretaker president Eduardo Duhalde warned that if the opposition doesn’t unite, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will defeat them next October 23 and be re-elected for a second four year mandate.

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 08:43 UTC

  Unasur letter supporting Argentina’s Malvinas claims delivered to Ban Ki-moon

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman met Wednesday with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and reiterated Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands this time reinforced with a formal request from the Union of South American Nations, Unasur leaders in support of Argentina’s “historic and legitimate rights”.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 18:44 UTC

  Argentina opens boat access to Tierra del Fuego eliminating Chilean crossing

  

  Argentina’s government is opening a new path to Tierra del Fuego that will give travellers, who once had to pass through Chile to reach the southernmost tip of the continent, the option of skipping Chile altogether.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 06:10 UTC

  Venezuela to begin shipping Argentina 12 million barrel of fuel in May

  

  Venezuela will send Argentina 12 million barrels of diesel and fuel oil starting in May, an official from Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA said.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 22:12 UTC

  Pickets’ leader demanding extortion sum from Clarin captured on video

  

  Argentina’s most important daily Clarin has filed an extortion complaint against the leader of the pickets that have prevented the circulation of the newspaper by blocking distribution at the press plant and who was recorded in a tape asking for the equivalent of 2.2 million US dollars to end the attacks.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 09:42 UTC

  IMF begins to work in Argentina in the elaboration of a new cost of living index

  

  International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff arrived Monday at Argentina’s Statistics Bureau, Indec headquarters in Buenos Aires to meet with its chief Ana María Edwin and its Director Norberto Itzcovich and begin the elaboration of a new cost of living index.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 08:50 UTC

  The Malvinas issue is putting “UN to test” on disputes among its members

  

  Argentine ambassador Jorge Argüello said that “when we talk about Malvinas, we’re talking about the oldest sovereignty dispute of modern times. And Malvinas is putting United Nations to test for solving dispute among countries”.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 04:41 UTC

  President Rousseff’s foreign policy “will emphasize human rights (South and North)”

  

  The Brazilian government admitted for the first time that there is some profile changes in the foreign policy implemented by President Dilma Rousseff compared to her predecessor Lula da Silva.