Argentina

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentina awarded the Oscar for the best foreign language film

  

  The Argentine film “The Secret in Their Eyes” a thriller about a 25-year-long manhunt, which paints rough times in recent Argentine political history, won the Academy Award for best foreign language film.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:48 UTC

  Argentine government tells Congress it will pay debts with reserves

  

  Argentine government officials reiterated over the weekend that despite efforts from the opposition to stop the Government, it would service the public debt with the Central Bank foreign reserves.

• Saturday, March 6th 2010 - 12:02 UTC

  Kirchner administration escalates dispute with Congress over bank reserves

  

  Argentine Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo assured on Friday that it's not the Senate's prerogative “to designate the Central Bank Governor,” and informed that their only task is to check whether the person appointed by the Executive “is suitable for the seat or not”.

• Saturday, March 6th 2010 - 11:59 UTC

  Argentina trusts it will reach understanding with bond holders’ end of March

  

  Argentina will make an offer to restructure the 20 billion US dollars of defaulted debt by the end of this month, Economy Minister Amado Boudou said on Friday.

• Friday, March 5th 2010 - 06:56 UTC

  Argentina: Defiant Cristina: “this president will pay debts with central bank reserves”

  

  Argentina's president defiantly vowed on Thursday to tap billions of dollars in foreign currency reserves to pay debt, in spite of Congress and the Judiciary, but also appealed a court order blocking her latest attempt to use the funds.

• Friday, March 5th 2010 - 06:49 UTC

  Central bank acting president, first victim of political clash in Argentina

  

  Argentina’s central bank interim chief seems condemned to be the first victim of the political clash between the Executive and Congress over the government’s use of central bank reserves to pay maturing debt in 2010.

• Thursday, March 4th 2010 - 21:12 UTC

  What can Argentina gain from another Falklands dispute?

  

  The Washington Post published this week an editorial on the current Falkland Islands situation arguing that “you know that an Argentine leader must be in political trouble” if the subject of the South Atlantic Islands comes up again.

• Thursday, March 4th 2010 - 03:35 UTC

  Argentine opposition has majority control of both Congress houses

  

  Argentina’s opposition senators on Wednesday won majority control of all the chamber’s committees, undermining President Cristina Fernandez’s de Kirchner’s ability to pass legislation more than two years after she took office.

• Thursday, March 4th 2010 - 01:17 UTC

  Two men make history as first gay marriage in the city of Buenos Aires

  

  After a long judicial battle two men married on Wednesday in Buenos Aires City in what was Argentina's second gay marriage, a rights group confirmed.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2010 - 19:53 UTC

  Britain rejects US offer to help UK and Argentina resolve Falklands’ dispute

  

  Downing Street has rejected an offer from the United States to help the UK and Argentina resolve their latest dispute over the Falkland Islands. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the offer after renewed tensions were triggered with the beginning of a round of exploratory oil drilling in the Islands’ waters.