Argentina

• Wednesday, June 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Six thousands trucks stranded by snow blocked Andes tunnel

  

  Heavy snow and wind storms that are punishing the Andes region have forced the closure of a key mountain highway and tunnel connecting Argentina with Chile leaving an estimated 6.000 fully loaded trucks stranded.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner insists with mud slinging in Bs As mayor campaign

  

  Buenos Aires City mayor run off candidates will not be debating ahead of Sunday June 24th vote. Conservative candidate Mauricio Macri who defeated President Nestor Kirchner's man, Daniel Filmus by 22 points in the first round said the campaign had turned “too aggressive and dirty”.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Pulp mills: Human Rights group blasts IFC and pollution experts

  

  The construction of a pulp mill in Uruguay along a river shared with Argentina has turned into an acrimonious spiraling contention between the neighboring countries particularly because of the alleged pollution impact of such an industry.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  New UN Argentine ambassador takes office in New York

  

  Recently named, Argentine former legislator Jorge Arguello officially became this Tuesday in New York the new ambassador before United Nations. Arguello succeeds Ambassador Cesar Mayoral.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine protestors to block dredging of the River Uruguay

  

  The pulp mills dispute between Argentina and Uruguay has scaled another step following environmentalists' decision to block all dredging along the river Uruguay which is the vital access waterway for the Botnia plant.

• Monday, June 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers threatened by a shortage of fuel

  Sixteen provinces, over half of the Argentine territory, are short of gas oil endangering crop harvesting and preparing the soil for this year's wheat production, warned the Argentine Agrarian Federation, FAA which is planning a national stoppage to underline the seriousness of the situation.

• Sunday, June 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  American buys slices of South America

  

  The American multimillionaire who founded the North Face and Esprit clothing lines says he is trying to save the planet by buying bits of it. First Douglas Tompkins purchased a huge swath of southern Chile, and now he's hoping to save the northeast wetlands of neighboring Argentina.

• Sunday, June 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina blasts UK's reluctance to negotiate Falklands' sovereignty

  

  Twenty five years after the end of the Falkland Islands war, Argentine ratified this weekend its unflinching determination over the Islands sovereignty and described as “incomprehensible” the British attitude for having consistently denied resuming direct negotiations as has been established by United Nations since 1982.

• Saturday, June 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine gas cuts pushes Chilean energy plant to bankruptcy

  

  Enersis, a subsidiary of the Chile's energy giant Endesa, will provide GasAtacama with 20 million US dollars needed to save the electricity supplier from imminent bankruptcy.
  Lacking a steady supply of natural gas from Argentina, GasAtacama has had to burn expensive diesel to generate electricity. It is thus incurring losses each day it continues to operate.

• Friday, June 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina promises to pay pending debts to Malvinas veterans

  The Argentine government announced Friday the appropriation of 500 million pesos (approximately 167 million US dollars) to cancel pending social security debts (1996/2002) with the Malvinas war veterans.