Argentina

• Saturday, January 31st 2015 - 09:23 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Celac summit, including Commonwealth members, support Argentina's 'legitimate' claims

  

  The Celac summit held in Costa Rica and which brings together all Latin American and Caribbean countries released a declaration expressing full support for Argentina's 'legitimate' rights over the Falklands/Malvinas, recalls that 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Resolution 2065 (first UN Assembly General resolution on the Falklands dispute) and again call on the goods offices of Ban Ki-moon to help start negotiations on the Argentina/UK dispute.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 20:36 UTC

  Leading culinary association promotes Argentine food and wine at the embassy in London

  

  The annual dinner of the Chaine des Rotisseurs was held in the Embassy of Argentina in the United Kingdom and for the first time, the association dedicated its major event to Argentine food and wine. Over one hundred special guests enjoyed a menu of dishes and wines representing the best of the country’s regional culinary traditions.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 07:26 UTC

  Argentine officials try to discredit prosecutor Fein and engineer Lagomarsino

  

  Argentine cabinet members diligently applied on Thursday President Cristina Fernandez strategy to disqualify facts and events surrounding the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman which has turned out to be a formidable blow to her administration's credibility.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

  Nisman “was not the maker of his death” underlines former wife at the burial

  

  Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was buried on Thursday in the same section of the main Jewish cemetery in Buenos Aires as the victims in the 1994 AMIA bombing that he was investigating, but the circumstances surrounding his death have become even more confusing and mysterious.

• Thursday, January 29th 2015 - 09:40 UTC

  Nisman feared for his life, mistrusted his security and asked for the gun

  

  A computer technician in the Buenos Aires prosecutor’s office who has been charged for lending a pistol to Alberto Nisman said the slain prosecutor asked him for the gun since he feared for his life and could no longer trust the team in charge of his security.

• Thursday, January 29th 2015 - 07:38 UTC

  YPF and China's Sinopec sign memorandum to develop shale oil and gas in Patagonia

  

  Argentine state-controlled energy company YPF said it signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday with China's Sinopec pertaining to the eventual development of conventional and non-conventional oil and gas projects in Patagonia.

• Thursday, January 29th 2015 - 06:15 UTC

  Only family and friends at AMIA prosecutor Nisman's wake

  

  A wake for Argentina's AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was held Wednesday afternoon in a ceremony with his family and friends. His body will be buried Thursday at the Tablada Israeli Cemetery, the Jewish News Agency (AJN) reported.

• Wednesday, January 28th 2015 - 08:04 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez speech was made to 'distract attention' claims Argentine opposition

  

  Argentina's Lower House opposition caucus leaders have rejected the proposed dissolution of the Intelligence Secretariat (SI, formerly known as SIDE), announced Monday evening by President Cristina Fernández, as they consider it was made to “distract attention” from the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman.

• Wednesday, January 28th 2015 - 07:53 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community demand the true causes of Nisman's death be investigated

  

  The leaders of Argentina's main Jewish organizations, AMIA and DAIA strongly criticized the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Iran by the administration of President Cristina Fernandez and demanded that “the true causes” of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman be thoroughly investigated.

• Wednesday, January 28th 2015 - 07:33 UTC

  Argentina's current import restrictions forecasted to continue during 2015

  

  A decrease in Argentina's trade surplus this year would make it difficult for the federal government to end the current restrictions on imports, which force companies to file an affidavit in order to obtain authorization, the Argentine Importers Chamber (CIRA) said this week, only days after the country’s 2014 trade data was revealed to be the worst since 2001.