Argentina

• Wednesday, October 7th 2009 - 09:29 UTC

  Argentina sets TAC for hoki, Patagonian toothfish and southern blue whiting

  

  Argentina’s Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) announced 2009 total allowable catch (CMP) for hoki (Macruronus magellanicus), Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) and southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), reflecting an effort to better conserve and manage these resources.

• Wednesday, October 7th 2009 - 07:49 UTC

  Two Argentine “death flights” pilots face long-standing charges

  

  An extradition hearing is expected in Spain this week for one of two pilots arrested recently on charges they participated in “death flights” in which more than 1,000 prisoners were thrown out of planes during Argentina's “dirty war” in the 1970s and 1980s, officials said.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2009 - 07:30 UTC

  Argentina and the IMF ready to re-establish normal working technical relations

  

  International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Dominique Strauss Khan, told Argentine Central Bank head Martín Redrado that the eventual revision of Argentina's economy by the multilateral organization would be “strictly technical,” according to IMF sources.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2009 - 01:15 UTC

  World gas conference in Argentina to discuss supply-demand balance

  

  Ministers, industry leaders and experts from 81 countries are meeting in Buenos Aires for the 24th World Gas conference with one main topic in the agenda: the balance between natural gas supply and demand.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 14:00 UTC

  Malvinas Families grateful to Argentine, UK governments and Islanders

  

  “We are most grateful to the governments of Argentina and Britain for having allowed us to go ahead with the homage, and to the Falkland Islanders for having left aside wounds of the past”, said Malvinas Families head Hector Cisneros at the successful completion of the first of two visits to the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:45 UTC

  Argentina mourns folk singer Mercedes Sola, the “voice of Latinamerica”

  

  Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the 'voice of Latinamerica' whose music inspired opponents of South America's brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died on Sunday at 5.15 am after have battled for more than 13 days a delicate health condition.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:39 UTC

  US federal judge limits claims of Argentine defaulted bonds

  

  A US federal judge has rejected an effort to attach some assets of Argentina's state-owned Banco de La Nacion to satisfy claims of investors holding defaulted Argentine bonds.

• Sunday, October 4th 2009 - 10:48 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner: “One day this century an Argentine president will visit Malvinas”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that one day this century an Argentine president will be able to visit the Malvinas Islands to homage the Argentine soldiers who died in the war with Britain 27 years ago and are buried in the Falklands.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 12:26 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner to farewell Malvinas Families leaving for Falklands

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be at Rio Gallegos airport early Saturday morning to farewell the first group of Malvinas Families that will be flying to the Falkland Islands for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 12:15 UTC

  Scientific report exposes Argentina’s passiveness with fisheries depredation

  

  A chain email is circulating among citizens of Argentina that seriously questions the stance of the national government regarding fisheries ordinance and the treatment of seafood resources.