The Buenos Aires Herald was sold to an Argentine publishing corporation which acquired 97% of the shares announced the newspaper to its readers over the weekend. The new owners print the financial newspaper Buenos Aires Económico and the magazines Veintitrés, Siete Días and the Spanish version of the US Newsweek.
The governments of Argentina and Chile received this week the economic offers from the parties interested in building the Trans-Andean Railway, a project that will require an investment of 3 billion US dollars.
Facing the first allegation within days after becoming the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner strongly denied U.S. charges that Venezuela tried to illegally influence her election campaign.
Since taking office last Monday, the administration of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina's first elected woman president, on two occasions reiterated its claim over the Falkland Islands and called on the United Kingdom to abandon its policy of no dialogue and resume sovereignty talks.
President Nestor Kirchner administration was a success in pulling Argentina out from the 2001/02 collapse but President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner must take the following step and that is making Argentina again an international player, said Thomas Shannon Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Reality is reality and the Falklands are British was the first UK reaction to a protest letter from the Argentine government rejecting the inclusion of disputed (British) Overseas Territories in the Lisbon European Treaty which was signed by EU leaders this Thursday in the Portuguese capital.
The International Monetary Fund hopes Argentina and the Paris Club will reach a repayment deal on 6.3 billion US dollars in defaulted debt without the IMF involvement, said the IMF managing director.
Incoming Argentina president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner promised that during her term differences with neighboring Uruguay will not deepen but insisted that Uruguay was to blame for the dispute over the construction of a pulp mill on the shores of a jointly managed river.
The first elected woman president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, 54, was sworn in on Monday, receiving the sash of office from her husband, the outgoing head of state. Chants of Viva Cristina erupted when Kirchner swapped her position as first lady for that of president.
”We once again call on the occupying country which in international forums plays as advanced and respectful that here (in Argentina) we still have a colonial enclave”, was incoming President Cristina Kirchner's, CK, direct reference to the Falkland Islands in her inaugural speech before Congress on Monday.