Argentina

Tuesday, September 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
In Argentina, the Campaign of 'Queen Cristina' Focuses on Global Relations

With just over a month to go before voters will choose a new president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, or “Queen Cristina,” as she is widely known here, is living up to her nickname.
Monday, September 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands' ocean bed dispute and lure for “Earth's last frontier”

Argentina will object any British initiative to extend the “illegitimate occupation” of the Falkland Islands and its adjoining waters, in the event of such a decision, Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana was quoted on Monday by the Buenos Aires press from New York.
Sunday, September 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina fury at UK bid for Falkland seas

Argentina has reacted furiously to plans by Britain to lay claim to vast new tracts of potentially oil and gas-rich territories in the seas off the Falklands.
Sunday, September 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchners face busy New York agenda

President Néstor Kirchner and his wife (and would-be successor) Cristina Fernández arrive in New York today to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
Saturday, September 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Estrada: K team “has no environmental policy.”

Argentina key negotiator in the Botnia pulp mill dispute with Uruguay was ousted from his Foreign Ministry post because of his disagreement with the official policy, according to the fired diplomat, Raúl Estrada Oyuela.
Wednesday, September 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina rallies for “first missing man” in democracy

Thousands of demonstrators have rallied in cities across Argentina to mark a year since a key witness in a landmark human rights trial disappeared.
Wednesday, September 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Golden kingclip fishing prohibited until end of year

Argentina - The nation's Subsecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SSP&A) has prohibited golden kingclip (Genypterus blacodes) fishing from 17 September to 31 December, 2007.
Tuesday, September 18th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Jeremy Moore 'a worthy adversary'

Retired Major-General Sir Jeremy Moore, the British land commander in the 1982 South Atlantic War who died last weekend in his 79th year, was described yesterday by a wartime foe as a “worthy adversary and an excellent professional.”
Saturday, September 15th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
President Kirchner's positive image at its lowest since May 2003

Just six weeks from October 28 presidential and Congressional elections Argentine president Nestor Kirchner is not enjoying his best stand with the electorate, according to a public opinion poll published Saturday in the Buenos Aires press.
Saturday, September 15th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Proposal for Tierra del Fuego bilingual broadcasting to Falklands

An Argentine member of congress presented a bill calling for the establishment of a bilingual broadcasting station targeted to service the Falkland Islands.