Argentina

• Monday, December 17th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Bs As. Herald purchased by Argentine group

  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.

• Saturday, December 15th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina and Chile working on the Trans-Andean Railway

  

  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.

• Friday, December 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner faces first full attack on her presidency

  

  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.

• Thursday, December 13th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Twice on three days Cristina K insists with Falklands' talks

  

  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.

• Thursday, December 13th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  US wants Argentina to play a more active international role

  

  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.

• Thursday, December 13th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  “Reality is reality” and the Falkland Islands are British

  

  “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.

• Wednesday, December 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  IMF chief suggests Argentina pays Paris Club “in one shot”

  

  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.

• Monday, December 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Cristina downplays conflict with Uruguay to “one difference”

  

  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.

• Monday, December 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Kirchner couple slide into second mandate swapping jobs

  

  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.

• Monday, December 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands' claim and multilateralism, CK's foreign policy punch

  

  ”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.