Argentina

• Tuesday, April 7th 2009 - 11:34 UTC

  Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador sign defence accord

  

  Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Ecuador signed Monday in Asuncion an agreement for cooperation in security matters which not only involves “associating” for the procurement of equipment, but defence of sovereignty and territorial integrity and preannouncement of military exercises.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2009 - 09:31 UTC

  Alfonsin magic touch could help resurgence of Argentine opposition

  

  A majority of Argentine feels that the recent death of former president Raul Alfonsin which sparked such spontaneous support for the values enshrined by the “father of democracy” could contribute to the resurgence of the country’s main opposition party to which he belonged, according to the latest public opinion poll published in the Buenos Aires press.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2009 - 07:20 UTC

  Argentine wheat farmers warn crop could fall below domestic demand

  

  Argentina farmland dedicated to wheat is forecasted to fall to a minimum, with a crop barely sufficient for the domestic market and no surplus to export to its main market Brazil, according to Santiago Cameron president of the country’s Wheat farmers association.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2009 - 05:17 UTC

  Argentina closes Southern squid fishery: 16 year record low catches

  

  Argentina’s Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) unanimously voted to close the squid (Illex argentinus) fishery south of parallel 46°, as a precautionary protection measure for the southern Patagonian stock. Adopted last week, the move was spurred by the latest scientific data presented on how the major fishery was evolving and its dangerously low catches.

• Friday, April 3rd 2009 - 10:43 UTC

  Massive support for Alfonsin seen as warning to political system

  

  Tens of thousands of Argentines lined the streets of Buenos Aires on Thursday to watch the funeral procession of former President Raul Alfonsin in a public display of gratitude for a leader who conducted the country back to the longest period of democracy since 1983.

• Friday, April 3rd 2009 - 09:58 UTC

  First Argentine president to commemorate in London, Falklands 1982 landing

  

  An Argentine president headed for the first time a ceremony in London commemorating the 27th anniversary of the Argentine April 2 landing in the Falkland Islands which triggered in 1982 the South Atlantic conflict with the United Kingdom.

• Friday, April 3rd 2009 - 09:14 UTC

  Argentine province extends oil and gas concessions to US company

  

  United States Apache Corporation announced this week that the Argentine Patagonian province of Neuquen has agreed to extend eight federal oil and gas concessions for 10 additional years.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 13:47 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner approach to Malvinas issue infuriates Jewish community

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner strong lobbying for support from the Arab League in its dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands is proving to be a short lived pyrrhic victory since she involved Argentina in the Palestine question and infuriated the Jewish community.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 13:26 UTC

  Argentina mourns Alfonsin more revered in death than in life

  

  Thousands of Argentines have marched and thousands more were queuing Wednesday night to render their respects to former Argentine president Raul Alfonsin, who died on Tuesday evening and has been enshrined as the man who following the defeat of the Argentine dictatorship in the Falkland Islands conflict, helped start in 1983 the longest period of electoral democracy in this politically turbulent country.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 10:27 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner’s Malvinas Veteran Day message from London

  

  On the 27th anniversary of the Argentine landing in Falklands/Malvinas, which triggered the South Atlantic conflict in 1982, the Argentine government will commemorate Thursday April 2 the Day of the Veteran and the Fallen in the Malvinas War.