Argentine president Nestor Kirchner denied emphatically on Wednesday that his administration was assessing the rationalization of electricity supply to homes and insisted that those versions are only looking to destabilize his government.
Argentina has requested energy assistance from Brazil to overcome the very extreme winter the country is suffering, according to sources in Brasilia reports the Brazilian press.
The Chilean Air Force rescued over the weekend an Argentine aircraft stranded on a glacier in the Antarctic Peninsula, according to an official release.
An Argentine dissident opposition governor but aligned with the current administration will complete the presidential ticket for next October which as announced over the weekend will be headed by the First Lady, Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Argentine President Néstor Kirchner will not run for reelection in October, but his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, will run in his place, according to Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez.
Electric energy cuts required by the national government affected operation levels for most of the country's fishery companies.
Twenty five years alter the end of the Falklands War Argentine Air Force Comodoro Pablo Carballo still defines himself as a combatant, as opposed to being a former or ex combatant of the 1982 war. Ex-combatant would mean that I no longer fight on he explains.
In a message to incoming British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Argentine president Nestor Kirchner renewed his administration's indeclinable willingness to resume the delayed Falklands/Malvinas Islands negotiations process
Almost 5.000 manufacturing plants have suffered from the latest electricity and gas restrictions, warned Argentina's Industrial Union, UIA, with blackouts equivalent to 40% of energy demand in a six to eight hours daily band.
The Patagonian province of Santa Cruz and Petrobras signed an agreement for the exploration of two gas basins in the extreme south of Argentina, plus the possibility of further concessions to another foreign company.