Argentina

• Thursday, April 22nd 2010 - 00:34 UTC

  Banco do Brasil buys 51% of Argentina’s fourth largest private bank

  

  Brazilian government controlled Banco do Brasil will pay 480 million US dollars for a 51% stake in Banco Patagonia, Argentina’s fourth largest private bank. The deal is pending regulatory approval both banks said in a release.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2010 - 03:24 UTC

  Argentine military Junta president sentenced to 25 years in prison

  

  Retired General Reynaldo Bignone, 82, the last leader of Argentina’s 1976-1983 military regime was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2010 - 03:11 UTC

  Argentina and Venezuela announce a “new world order of relationships”

  

  Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Venezuela’s leader Hugo Chávez said “the new world requires a new logic to accept a new order of relationships” during a meeting held at the presidential palace of Miraflores in Caracas.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 21:20 UTC

  Mujica and Mrs. Kirchner to address “bi-national relations and pickets”

  

  “There are no miracles; we feel cool about the decision”, said Uruguayan president Jose Mujica following the International Court of Justice ruling which means there will be no relocation of the Orion pulp mill which besides does not contaminate, as was claimed by Argentina when it presented its case back in 2006.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 21:11 UTC

  “Argentina’s environmental hypocrisy”

  

  In its judgement on ”Pulp mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina vs. Uruguay)”, the International Court of Justice, (UN principal judicial organ) declared that Uruguay has not breached its substantive obligations for the protection of the environment provided by the Statute of the River Uruguay by authorizing the construction and commissioning of the Orion (Botnia) pulp mill.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay’s and Argentina celebrate Court’s ruling on pulp mill dispute

  

  Much as was anticipated, Uruguay and Argentina celebrated as favourable the ruling of the International court of Justice regarding a long standing pulp mills dispute, while environmentalists were totally disappointed and promised to continue and intensify their protests and pickets.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 14:59 UTC

  Argentina hosts FAO summit on fish and seafood trade

  

  The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) are convening an international meeting on trade in fish and seafood to be hosted by in the Argentine government Buenos Aires 26-30 April.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 14:35 UTC

  Alarming contraction of hake biomass in Argentine breeding grounds

  

  The breeding grounds of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) located in the San Jorge gulf, Argentine Patagonia are showing alarming signs of a loss of biomass, concludes a report authored by the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development, (INIDEP).

• Saturday, April 17th 2010 - 06:29 UTC

  Argentina’s “next step” is to negotiate 7.5 billion debt with the Paris Club

  

  After unveiling Argentina's debt-swap details Thursday, Economy Minister Amado Boudou said on Friday that the next step is to negotiate the 7.5 billion dollar debt Argentina maintains with the Paris Club.

• Saturday, April 17th 2010 - 06:25 UTC

  Judge declares “null and non existent” first lesbian marriage in Argentina

  

  A Buenos Aires judge voided on Friday the marriage last week of two women, the first union of its kind in Argentina, judicial officials said.