Argentina

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 18:00 UTC

  Autopsy shows body found is missing Santiago Maldonado and has no signs of violence

  

  The corpse found in Chubut River, in Argentine Patagonia, is Santiago Maldonado, it was confirmed late Friday by family members who recognized his body tattoos. Santiago lived in El Bolsón, a paradise for hippies in middle of Patagonia, precisely tattooing or living of small handicrafts in close contact with the Mapuche indigenous people who are in conflict with landowners and in recurrent clashes with security forces.

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 07:05 UTC

  Family confirm body recovered in Argentine Patagonia is that of missing activist

  

  The body recovered from a river bed in southern Argentina is that of a missing activist who disappeared two months ago during a police operation, his brother confirmed on Friday. Santiago Maldonado, a 28-year-old tattoo artist, was last seen being detained by paramilitary police as they moved to disperse a protest march by the Mapuche indigenous group in the Patagonia Chubut province, on August first.

• Friday, October 20th 2017 - 06:03 UTC

  A Rose for Peace presented the Falklands by Argentine students

  

  The large number of Argentine visitors to the Falkland Islands this week included pupils of the Don Bosco College in Ensenada. Having spent the first full day of their stay visiting the military cemeteries at Darwin and San Carlos where they paid tribute to the fallen of both sides in 1982, on Monday the group, whose visit was arranged in conjunction with the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, was given a presentation on the Falklands by the FIG Policy Department.

• Thursday, October 19th 2017 - 07:52 UTC

  Election campaign suspended in Argentina following discovery of a body presumed to be missing protestor

  

  Major parties running in Sunday’s mid-term congressional election in Argentina suspended their campaigns on Wednesday after a body, thought to be that of a young protester who went missing more than two months ago, was found in a river.

• Thursday, October 19th 2017 - 07:47 UTC

  Judges order arrest of a key official from Cristina Fernandez on alleged fraud

  

  Three Argentine judges ordered that a key official in former President Cristina Fernandez's government be detained as part of a probe into an alleged case of fraud. The request to detain former planning minister and current lawmaker Julio De Vido comes five days before the country's parliamentary elections in which Fernandez is seeking a Senate seat.

• Wednesday, October 18th 2017 - 12:03 UTC

  Political spring ahead for Macri, if opinion polls results are confirmed on Sunday

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri seems to be in the threshold of a new political spring following on the expected results of next Sunday's midterm election when a third of the Senate seats and half the Lower House, plus several governorships will be on dispute.

• Wednesday, October 18th 2017 - 11:47 UTC

  Identification of unknown Argentine combatants buried in Falklands advancing according to agenda

  

  The forensic team from the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, involved in the Falklands Humanitarian Project is currently analyzing the DNA samples taken from the Argentine soldiers remains buried at the Darwin cemetery in the Islands, and defining strategies that should allow the delivery of results to the Argentine, and United Kingdom governments.

• Tuesday, October 17th 2017 - 11:59 UTC

  Argentina's Ferreira Rubio elected chair of Transparency International

  

  Delia Matilde Ferreira Rubio was elected chair of Transparency International, the global anti-corruption movement, at its Annual Membership Meeting in Berlin. Rueben Lifuka was elected as vice-chair, along with seven new board members. All will serve a three-year term.

• Tuesday, October 17th 2017 - 11:26 UTC

  Argentina's Macri Let's Change coalition “clearly predominant” ahead of Sunday's midterm elections

  

  There is a “clear predominance” of president Mauricio Macri's “Let's Change” coalition in Argentina and in the crucial Buenos Aires province, ahead of next Sunday's (October 22) midterm elections, according to political analyst Sergio Berensztein.

• Saturday, October 14th 2017 - 08:10 UTC

  Argentine teenagers travel to Falklands in high school graduation trip

  

  Eighteen Argentine high school graduates from a Catholic institution in the port-town of Ensenada, next to La Plata should be arriving in the Falkland Islands this Saturday after connecting with the LATAM flight in Rio Gallegos. The trip was planned and agreed two years ago and since then they have been collecting funds with different activities to make possible a lifetime's dream.