Argentina

• Friday, April 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Tight security for Olympic torch relay in Buenos Aires

  

  The Olympic torch arrived Thursday afternoon to Argentina and on Friday will be relayed thirteen kilometers through downtown Buenos Aires with a massive display of security forces to ensure there's no repeat of the anti China incidents that have occurred in Europe and United States.

• Friday, April 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers satisfied with “dialogue spirit”

  

  Argentine farmers' leaders described the long awaited Friday meeting with President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to discuss camp policies, particularly taxes, as “positive” and praised the “sincere” and “dialogue spirit” of the three hours discussions held at Government House, Casa Rosada.

• Wednesday, April 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Patagonia: free access to rivers and lakes or expropriation

  

  Argentine Patagonia Nahuel Huapi National Park administrators have started expropriation proceedings against landowners, among them US media tycoon Ted Turner. Landowners have consistently refused free public access to rivers and lakes, park sources said.

• Wednesday, April 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers and government dialogue announced for Friday

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner next Friday will meet with representatives from the country's four organizations that staged a three week lock out to protest the increase in sliding export taxes on oil seeds and cereals, according to sources in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, April 7th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner after Argentina's return to money markets

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner joined on Sunday thousands who marched in downtown Paris calling for the release of French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt who was kidnapped by FARC rebels six years ago, and is alleged to be seriously ill with fear of life.

• Monday, April 7th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina after 8 billion in loans for infrastructure

  

  Argentina's Economy Ministry Martín Lousteau with a delegation of provincial governors and experts from his office traveled to Miami for the annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank to discuss terms for a four year credit program totaling 8 billion US dollars in infrastructure and education.

• Sunday, April 6th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina tightening poaching control in South Atlantic

  

  Argentina is beefing up patrolling in the South Atlantic to catch poachers and prevent the 201 mile plus “hundreds of vessels” from intruding into Argentine waters, report two journalists from Clarín who were invited on board a coast guard vessel on duty in the zone.

• Saturday, April 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Malvinas veterans demand identification of comrades' remains

  A group of Malvinas veterans who last week on the anniversary of the beginning of the conflict visited the Falkland Islands, called on the Argentine government for the identification of all combatants buried in the Argentine cemetery at Darwin, reports the Buenos Aires press.

• Saturday, April 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Bs As. received 185.000 cruise visitors this season

  Royal Caribbean “Splendour of the Seas” with 800 passengers and a crew of 760 left Buenos Aires this week officially ending another successful cruise season which attracted 185.000 visitors who spent an estimated 110 million US dollars in Argentina's capital.

• Thursday, April 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchners Malvinas message: no war and no Winnie the Pooh

  

  On the 26th anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands war, now renamed the Day of the Malvinas war veteran, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner renewed calls for sovereignty over the South Atlantic Islands and emphasized that the Malvinas claim is “unflagging”.