Argentina

Thursday, November 19th 2009 - 13:18 UTC
Argentine Senate reopens debt restructuring process for bond holdouts

Argentina’s Senate passed a bill on Wednesday with a significant majority to reopen the country's 2005 debt restructuring. The administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner hopes it will help it settle a dispute with holders of an estimated 20 billion US dollars in defaulted bonds.
Thursday, November 19th 2009 - 04:49 UTC
Argentina regulates individual catch quota fisheries law effective 2010

Argentina announced this week the regulation of the Fisheries Law that allows for 15 years individual transferable catch quotas (ITQs) of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) which is to become effective in 2010. The new system is also applicable to other three species: hoki (Macruronus magellanicus), Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) and southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis).
Wednesday, November 18th 2009 - 08:14 UTC
Argentina protests world-map circulating in Bolivia with the Malvinas as British

The Argentine embassy in Bolivia officially protested, and demanded the immediate withdrawal of a National Geographic world-map circulating among the Bolivian Chamber of Customs agents and where the Malvinas Islands figure “with a colour different to that identifying Argentina”.
Wednesday, November 18th 2009 - 04:10 UTC
Argentine fruit exports to Brazil loosing 300.000 USD per day

Argentine exporters claim they are loosing huge sums of money because of Brazilian delays at Customs posts and in extending import licences. This is particularly sensitive for fruit and other perishable exporters.
Wednesday, November 18th 2009 - 03:44 UTC
Cristina and Lula da Silva meet to address bilateral trade conflict

Argentina and Brazil presidents are scheduled to address trade disputes, Mercosur and other coming foreign policy issues when they meet Wednesday in Brasilia for their agreed regular contacts.
Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:14 UTC
Shimon Peres in Argentina proposes “a new relation for a new world”

Israeli President Shimon Peres met on Monday with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Shimon arrived on Sunday in Argentina, home to Latin America's biggest Jewish community for a two-day visit.
Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:08 UTC
Argentina’s first gay couple marriage scheduled for December, AIDS Day

An Argentine gay couple that was enabled by a Buenos Aires City court ruling to get married after declaring the articles of the Civic Code that prohibit it as unconstitutional, requested on Monday a wedding date, according to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transvestite Federation (LGBT).
Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:31 UTC
Israeli president Shimon Peres in Argentina for two-day visit

Israeli President Shimon Peres, who will meet Monday with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, arrived Sunday night in Buenos Aires for his two-day official visit, the first of an Israeli head of state in decades.
Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:24 UTC
The Hague ruling on Botnia pulp mill controversy will “favour Uruguay”

The International Court of The Hague will rule favourably for Uruguay in the litigation with Argentina over the Botnia pulp mill constructed on the Uruguayan side of a jointly managed river, anticipated Uruguay’s chief attorney in the case, Paul Reichler.
Monday, November 16th 2009 - 14:15 UTC
FIFA bans Maradona for two months on qualifier incident in Montevideo

Argentina head coach Diego Maradona has been banned from football for two months and fined by FIFA as punishment for his rant at journalists following Argentina's qualification for the World Cup finals a month ago in Montevideo, Uruguay.