Argentina

• Monday, December 24th 2018 - 18:40 UTC

  Writer, historian Osvaldo Bayer dies at age 91

  

  Argentine writer and historian Osvaldo Bayer died Monday at the age of 91, his daughter Ana confirmed on social media. “Unfortunately I have to give a sad news, my dad Osvaldo Bayer has died,” she wrote on Facebook in Spanish, Italian and German.

• Sunday, December 23rd 2018 - 04:08 UTC

  Funds have been allocated to Argentina's Forensic Anthropology Team

  

  Last Thursday December 20, the Argentine ministry of Justice and Human Rights confirmed the transfer and payment order of the first of two outlays planned for the fiscal year, to the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, EAFF, which had complained a cut in funds.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Mapuche rebel Jones-Huala gets 9 years in Chilean prison

  

  Argentine Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala was sentenced Friday to nine years and one day in jail by a Chilean court in Valdivia. Jones-Huala received a six-year sentence for arson plus three years and one day for illegal possession of a firearm in the context of the 2013 attack at the Pisu Pisué farm in Río Bueno.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 07:32 UTC

  Argentina launches the Antarctica Summer Campaign with icebreaker ARA Irizar

  

  With the departure of icebreaker ARA Almirante Irizar, Argentina launched this week its Antarctica Summer Campaign 2018/19. The re furbished icebreaker is scheduled to develop an intense scientific activity, supply Argentina's bases and stations and replace the teams that will be spending a whole season in Antarctica.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 07:01 UTC

  Marine Protected Areas controversy in the South Atlantic

  

  In a brief communiqué released on Friday the Falkland Islands government takes note of a recent Argentine announcement indicating the creation of Marine Protected Areas to the south of the Budrwood Bank. The Falklands government said it “believes the designation of this area encroaches on our Fisheries Conservation Zone and steps are being taken to address the matter”.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 06:35 UTC

  Eurnekian's home and business offices raided by the Argentine federal police

  

  Argentine federal police raided this week three addresses belonging to businessman Eduardo Eurnekian as part of an ongoing major investigation into public works contracts awards in exchange for money contributions.

• Friday, December 21st 2018 - 19:41 UTC

  Court says CFK must be tried for corruption and jailed preemptively

  

  An Argentine appeals court Thursday upheld the September decision by judge Claudio Bonadio whereby Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) must stand trial and be preemptively imprisoned throughout the proceedings for having allegedly received millionaire bribes from businessmen in the Kirchnerist governments (2003-2015).

• Friday, December 21st 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Falklands' sovereignty “not up for debate”, says PM May who praised changing relationship with Argentina

  

  While the relationship between the UK and Argentina is changing, the UK commitment to the people and sovereignty of the Falklands is unchanging, assured Prime Minister Theresa May in her Christmas speech to the Falklands.

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 23:49 UTC

  Team which identified unnamed bodies in Darwin on the brink of collapse as Argentine gov't withholds funds

  

  The Argentine Anthropology Forensics Team (EAAF) Thursday announced it will no be able to carry on with its work since the Argentine government had not wired the funds agreed upon.

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 18:24 UTC

  Mapuche leaders indicted for trespassing at Vaca Muerta

  

  The Office of Neuquén's Chief Prosecutor Wednesday filed charges against businessman Gabriel Cherqui, Mapuche Community of Neuquén (CMN) spokesman Jorge Nahuel and activist Gilberto Huilipan for promoting the May 2017 trespassing by Mauche demonstrators into the Vaca Muerta oil fields.