Argentina

• Wednesday, February 4th 2015 - 09:39 UTC

  Nisman death: Clarin was right, draft document requesting detention of Cristina Fernandez exists

  

  Argentina's prosecutor in charge of investigating the death of Alberto Nisman, Viviana Fein has rectified information regarding a draft document involving a detention request for President Cristina Fernández, foreign minister Hector Timerman and a member of Congress, whose existence she had first denied.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2015 - 09:30 UTC

  “I'm not under pressure on the Nisman death case” says prosecutor Fein

  

  Argentine Prosecutor Viviana Fein has insisted that she is not under any external pressure relating to her investigations into the death of AMIA lead prosecutor Alberto Nisman, and promised to formally report any such interferences in her work.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2015 - 08:18 UTC

  Cars registered in Argentina during January drop 39% over a year ago

  

  The number of cars registered in Argentina during January dropped 39% in comparison with the same month last year, ACARA, the chamber that groups Argentine car dealers, has revealed.

• Tuesday, February 3rd 2015 - 06:22 UTC

  Judges decline to handle Nisman's allegations against Cristina Fernandez

  

  Two judges on Monday declined to handle the allegations brought by late prosecutor Alberto Nisman against Argentina's president, charging her with seeking to derail his investigation of the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center.

• Sunday, February 1st 2015 - 22:41 UTC

  Celebrations for 150th anniversary of Welsh settlements in Argentine Patagonia

  

  Argentine Ambassador in the United Kingdom, Alicia Castro, and the Welsh First Minister, Carwyn Jones, who will visit Argentina this year, jointly inaugurated in Cardiff celebrations commemorating the settlement of the Welsh in Argentina in 1865. Several activities have been planned both in Patagonia and Wales to celebrate the 150th anniversary.

• Sunday, February 1st 2015 - 21:52 UTC

  First tranche of Chinese loan to build dams in Argentine Patagonia; CFK en route to Beijing

  

  The construction of the Nestor Kirchner and Jorge Cepernic dams in Santa Cruz, Patagonia is finally set to begin now that China has deposited the first 287.7 million dollars tranche of funding for the massive 4.71 billion project, Argentine President Cristina Fernández announced before leaving for a state visit to China.

• 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.