Argentina

• Friday, January 20th 2017 - 20:10 UTC

  Hopes in Argentina that major terrorist actions will be finally investigated

  

  Two years after the death of Alberto Nisman, organizers of tributes to the deceased Argentine prosecutor appear hopeful that the circumstances of his death will be clarified. Tributes were held for Nisman who was found dead at his home in the Argentine capital in January, 2015, in the midst of his investigation into the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center.

• Friday, January 20th 2017 - 19:44 UTC

  CIA 1982 plan to hand Falklands to Argentina and relocate Islanders in Scotland

  

  The population of the Falklands Islands could have been relocated to Scotland under a secret CIA plan, it has been revealed. United States planned to step in and hand the Islands to Argentina following the 1982 invasion, according to briefings rescued from the trove of 12 million documents published by the CIA on its website and discovered by the British media.

• Thursday, January 19th 2017 - 20:43 UTC

  BAS will shut down Antarctica's Halley VI in winter because of ice shelf crack

  

  British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has decided not to winter at Halley VI Research Station for safety reasons. The station, which is located on the floating Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, will shut down between March and November 2017.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2017 - 11:57 UTC

  Argentina to propose a Schengen space to promote regional tourism

  

  Argentina aspires to become the back bone of an integrated Mercosur with the Pacific Alliance, said the country's Tourism minister Gustavo Santos attending the International Tourism Fair, Fitur, taking place in Spain.

• Monday, January 16th 2017 - 09:50 UTC

  Azul to operate daily Belo Horizonte-Ezeiza nonstop flight

  

  Over 1,200 reservations were registered during first week after services were made available, Fabián Lombardo, the company's representative in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, announced. The company will fly daily from Belo Horizonte to Buenos Aires (Ezeiza) starting March 6.

• Saturday, January 14th 2017 - 08:37 UTC

  Malcorra reiterates: Argentina willing to cooperative research in the South Atlantic

  

  Foreign minister Susana Malcorra said fisheries licensing in the South Atlantic is of great concern for Argentina because of the “overall ongoing depredation”, and recalled that there is an item referred to the issue in the September UK-Argentine joint statement, which has yet to be addressed and that most probably it will follow on the identification of unknown soldiers buried in the Falklands and the additional flights issues.

• Friday, January 13th 2017 - 11:04 UTC

  Argentina announces ambitious financial program; road show begins Monday in London

  

  Argentina struck an 18-month financing deal worth US$6 billion with six banks on Thursday, Finance Minister Luis Caputo told reporters, saying the government planned to tap international capital markets for US$10 billion in 2017. Sovereign bond issuance will start on Jan. 19, with a sale of US$3 billion to US$5 billion in U.S. dollar-denominated paper.

• Friday, January 13th 2017 - 09:03 UTC

  Falklands: 46 minefields to be cleared in two years pledges Foreign Office

  

  Falkland Islanders can expect a total of 46 minefields cleared over the next two years in the Mount Longdon and Stanley area confirmed a Foreign and Commonwealth Office delegation in the Falklands this week. Mines are the long lasting and unwanted legacy of the 1982 war.

• Thursday, January 12th 2017 - 06:26 UTC

  Argentina prepared to share South Atlantic fisheries scientific data, says Malcorra

  

  discuss hydrocarbon and fisheries issues in the South Atlantic with the UK, following on the road map agreed last September in the joint statement. These issues were described as “fundamental” and will be discussed in the Argentine congress, but others such as trade and navigation, do not need to be consulted with the legislative branch.

• Wednesday, January 11th 2017 - 08:29 UTC

  Macri announces program to boost development of Vaca Muerta shale formation

  

  Argentina's government has agreed to extend a natural gas wellhead price subsidy until 2020 and reduce labor costs in a bid to jumpstart investment in the Vaca Muerta shale formation. The agreement, reached between the national government, the provincial government of Neuquen, industry and labor unions, comes at a time of lackluster upstream activity, reflecting an uncertain price environment and cost concerns.