Argentina

• Monday, May 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina: quasi air collision because of lack of radar coverage

  

  Two aircrafts almost crashed in mid air in the area of control of Buenos Aires main airport Ezeiza, claimed on Monday the Argentine commercial pilots association. The accident was avoided appealing to an alarm system directly operated from the aircrafts.

• Sunday, May 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina arrests Ghana flagged jigger allegedly poaching

  A Ghana flagged jigger with Chinese crew was captured Sunday afternoon by the Argentine Coast Guard allegedly fishing inside the Argentine economic exclusive zone 370 kilometers south east of the city of Necochea.

• Saturday, May 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Airline pilots warn lack of radars in Buenos Aires airports

  

  The International Federation of Airlines Pilots Associations, with over 100.000 members globally has warned that pilots operating in Argentine airspace must exercise extreme vigilance and awareness because of the lack of radars in the Buenos Aires area.

• Friday, May 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Basic training in human rights for Argentine troops

  Hundreds of Argentine troops are headed back to class for a different sort of basic training — in human rights.

• Friday, May 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina:
  “Air force material obsolete”

  

  Defence Minister Nilda Garré, speaking after an air force pilot died on Tuesday as his plane crashed, said that Argentina's air military material is old due to more than 20 years of “disinvestment.”

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands War “a mistake”. Bombing raid reversed withdrawal decision

  

  Argentina was ready to announce withdrawal of its troops from the Falklands Islands on May 2nd exactly 25 years ago but President Galtieri reversed his decision when the British Vulcan bomber and Harrier aircraft launched their raid on Stanley Airport the previous day.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  “Squid market is collapsing” claims Mar del Plata industry

  The market for squid is collapsing because of over supply and free fall prices, according to one of Argentina's main squid operators, Guillermo De los Santos, reports the Mar del Plata press.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  High seas ceremony to remember sinking of “General Belgrano”

  

  The Argentine Navy is planning for this coming Friday a high seas homage to the 323 crewmembers lost when the sinking of the cruiser “General Belgrano” on May 2, 1982, by two torpedoes from the Royal Navy's nuclear submersible HMS Conqueror.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Attacker of Rio Gallegos Kirchner's property diagnosed “psychosis”

  

  A new psychiatric report revealed that the Chilean born citizen that last week end tried to ram a heavy truck against a Rio Gallegos house belonging to Argentine President Nestor Kirchner is suffering from “psychosis”.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Malvinas Mirage III crashes during “baptism of fire” celebration

  

  The Argentine Air Force “baptism of fire” 25th celebration turned into tragedy Tuesday morning when a Mirage III interceptor after two successful low flying demonstrations crashed in a field next to the Tandil VI Air Brigade.