Argentina

• Friday, February 13th 2015 - 03:45 UTC

  Nisman's former wife urges “ethical, balanced and responsible” approach to the investigation

  

  The ex-wife of late AMIA special investigator Alberto Nisman, judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, has called for a more responsible treatment of the prosecutor's death, speaking out against those who tried to “politicize” events at an audience held on Thursday in the Argentine Senate.

• Thursday, February 12th 2015 - 21:04 UTC

  Argentine church says child malnutrition stats manipulated; blames corruption and indifference

  

  Argentina's Catholic church warned that the official data on child malnutrition is 'manipulated' to avoid responsibility and rejected the official government argument that the death of some children because of nutrition problems are 'isolated cases'. The statement follows the surfacing of children's deaths of aborigines communities in northern Argentina.

• Thursday, February 12th 2015 - 20:57 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil admit trade disagreements between Mercosur main partners

  

  Argentina and Brazil failed to reach an agreement to help unlock the ongoing tension between the two key Mercosur allies over bilateral trade. Argentina's Hector Timerman and his counterpart Mauro Vieira met in Buenos Aires to try and ease Brazil’s growing concerns about restrictions on the flow of goods, but any decisions were pushed forward to an undetermined date.

• Thursday, February 12th 2015 - 06:38 UTC

  Argentine administration counterattacks US media on Nisman's case

  

  Argentina's Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said that the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman is being “used to attack the government” in an interview with the Washington Post. Meanwhile Argentina's Ambassador to the US Cecilia Nahon wrote a letter to the Post’s editor stating that “Argentina seeks only justice in 1994 bombing case.”

• Thursday, February 12th 2015 - 06:25 UTC

  Argentine industry fearful of some clauses in agreements signed with China

  

  Argentina's top officials will meet on Thursday with representatives from the Argentine Industrial Union, UIA, to discuss some clauses and aspects of the recent agreements signed between China and Argentina last week, and which have been questioned by the manufacturers' lobby.

• Thursday, February 12th 2015 - 06:02 UTC

  Holdouts open new front in dispute with Argentina: officials dramatic increase in their personal wealth

  

  US holders of defaulted Argentine bonds have stepped up their campaign for full repayment of their loans by detailing how 14 senior Argentine officials experienced “dramatic and often unexplained increases” in their personal wealth during service in the Kirchner administrations.

• Thursday, February 12th 2015 - 05:34 UTC

  UK's Customs request information on Argentina's criminal case against HSBC

  

  Britain's HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) department has requested Argentina’s AFIP tax bureau information on the criminal report filed in Buenos Aires against HSBC on allegations the bank helped more than 4,000 clients to evade taxes by stashing their money in secret Swiss bank accounts.

• Wednesday, February 11th 2015 - 06:05 UTC

  Nisman death: new DNA profile found in the apartment; a second tests finds no traces of gunpowder

  

  Argentine judge Fabiana Palmaghini in charge of the investigation into the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, has confirmed a new DNA profile has been found at the victim’s apartment, ordering further tests to identify whose sample it belongs to. Likewise a microscopic electron scanning second test on evidence samples, found no traces of gunpowder in Nisman's hands.

• Wednesday, February 11th 2015 - 05:54 UTC

  The New York Times: How Argentina ‘Suicides’ the Truth

  

  By Uki Goñi - Political “suicides” are so common in Argentina that a special word has been invented for them. Ask different people in Buenos Aires today and they may disagree whether the crusading prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered or took his own life. But most everyone will concur that Mr. Nisman was “suicided,” the latest victim of a dark-power centrifuge that with sinister regularity spews out dead bodies in this divided nation.

• Wednesday, February 11th 2015 - 05:30 UTC

  “Our democracy is young, but nor fragile” ambassador Castro tells the FT

  

  Following the publication of an article in the British press under the heading of “Democracy in Argentina dented by mysterious murder”, Argentine ambassador in London Alicia Castro, sent a letter to the editor of the Financial Times basically arguing that “our democracy is young, but not fragile” and describing the article as “most groundless and offensive” accusation.