Argentina

Monday, October 6th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner opens oil exploration in South Atlantic

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner officially marked on Monday the beginning of operations of a South Atlantic oil rig, the first to be fully financed by Argentine government and private investors.
Sunday, October 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Bachelet celebrates epic events of Chilean history in Argentina

Chilean president Michelle Bachelet arrived Sunday in Buenos Aires for talks with her counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and to participate in seminars celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the 1988 referendum which signaled the beginning of the end of Dictator Augusto Pinochet's 17 year iron fist rule.
Saturday, October 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
“Suitcase” airport official contradicts Antonini's version

A former Argentine airport officer who became a model and television star testified in a US court Friday about discovering a suitcase stuffed with nearly $800,000 in cash brought to a Buenos Aires airport from Venezuela.
Saturday, October 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Call for Argentine minister to testify in Miami court

Argentina's vice president Julio Cobos said on Friday that cabinet minister Julio De Vido should “come clear” about his alleged links with the suitcase cash scandal currently being aired in a Miami federal court.
Saturday, October 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner calls on striking farmers; warns on global crisis

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called striking farmers to dialogue warning that there's much uncertainty in the world because of the international financial crisis and it could affect the “Argentine model”.
Friday, October 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Vice-president Cobos emerges as Argentina best rated leader

Vice President Julio Cobos has become the most popular politician in Argentina strengthened by the weakness of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who has committed several major political errors and no longer speaks with him.
Friday, October 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina honours Alfonsin and return of democracy in 1983

Former Argentine president Raul Alfonsin, the first elected leader following the cataclysm of the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas conflict was honoured this week with the unveiling of a bust in Government House, Casa Rosada
Friday, October 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
For Argentina's MOD, Islas Malvinas are Falkland Islands

A major blooper committed by Argetnina's Ministry of Defence official publication has put an end to the South Atlantic sovereignty dispute: the Islas Malvinas are definitively the Falkland Islands and Puerto Argentino is Port Stanley, reports the Buenos Aires press.
Thursday, October 2nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina bans sale of Made in China 48 milk related products

Argentina joined a long list of Latinamerican countries which have banned the import of Chinese milk and related products such as sweets, chocolate bars, cookies, instant tea and coffee with powder milk, etc.
Thursday, October 2nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina gets tough on hake fisheries conservation

Argentina has expanded and declared permanent the ban on common hake (Merluccius hubbsi,) fishing in the following quadrants of the South Atlantic: the northern half of 4160, 4260, 4261 and 4262.