Argentina

• Wednesday, December 16th 2009 - 04:48 UTC

  Proposed trans-Andes tunnel, crucial link for Pacific-Atlantic highway

  

  A proposed 916 million US dollars road tunnel linking Chile and Argentina was endorsed last week by the Coquimbo (Region IV) regional government. The approval gives a green light to the proposed 14-km tunnel linking Chile’s Coquimbo province with the Argentine province of San Juan.

• Tuesday, December 15th 2009 - 11:10 UTC

  Argentina announces 6.5 billion USD guarantee fund for 2010 debt payments

  

  Argentina will set aside 6.5 billion US dollars of its foreign currency reserves to ensure the country meets its 2010 debt payments, the government said on Monday. The move is seen as an attempt to lower costs for issuing new debt, ahead of a complicated year.

• Tuesday, December 15th 2009 - 07:51 UTC

  Argentina: TAC for southern blue whiting, hoki and Patagaonian toothfish

  

  Argentina’s Federal Fisheries Council, (CFP) has fixed the 2010 total allowable catch (TAC) for hoki (Macruronus magellanicus), Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) and southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis) at 170,000, 2,500 and 60,000 tonnes, respectively.

• Saturday, December 12th 2009 - 14:52 UTC

  The “blond angel of death” on trial in Buenos Aires

  

  A former Argentine navy captain has gone on trial in Buenos Aires for his alleged involvement in the disappearance and torture of dissidents during the country's 1976 to 1983 military dictatorship.

• Friday, December 11th 2009 - 14:14 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina try again to reach an agreement on bilateral trade

  

  Brazil and Argentina are currently discussing the possibility of reducing the number of products subject to the so called non automatic import licences which has been obstructing bilateral trade and causing a rift between Mercosur’s largest partners.

• Friday, December 11th 2009 - 13:52 UTC

  Argentina clears the way for outstanding debt swap and new bonds issue

  

  In the latest step to finish with outstanding debt problems and return to markets, the Argentine government officially allowed issues of new bonds to be swapped for defaulted government paper.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 11:20 UTC

  Opposition does not discard impeachment of President Cristina Kirchner

  

  A leader of the Argentine opposition does not discard the possibility of impeaching President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for alleged acts of corruption.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 10:36 UTC

  Malvinas, the European Union and Latinamerica

  

  Bad news for Argentina: the Malvinas issue that until now was a bilateral conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom has been transferred to the sphere of the large regional groups, at supra-national scale, from the moment that the Islands are considered as an “associate territory” of the European Union, points out the Buenos Aires daily Clarin.

• Saturday, December 5th 2009 - 11:44 UTC

  Argentine opposition takes over control of the Lower House

  

  An unexpected alliance of all opposition forces in the Argentine Lower House (144 out of 257) defeated this week President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s congressional block on the crucial vote of authorities and committees for the incoming congress which officially begins December 10.

• Saturday, December 5th 2009 - 09:21 UTC

  OAS commemorates 25th anniversary of Argentine/Chile peace treaty

  

  During its regular session Friday at OAS headquarters in Washington, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) commemorated the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Peace and Friendship Treaty between the Republics of Argentina and Chile.