Argentina

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 07:18 UTC

  Ushuaia gateway to Antarctica: of 295 cruise calls this season 60% will travel south

  

  Ushuaia, the world's southern most city and gateway to Antarctica cruises expects this 2014/2015 season an estimated forty vessels and 295 calls, according to Tierra del Fuego province port authorities. As usual the first vessel to arrive was Chilean flagged Stella Australis with 210 passengers, at the end of September, which is also expected to close the season in April next year.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 07:00 UTC

  Argentina imposes even tougher controls on foreign trade and currencies

  

  The Argentine government has strengthened its control over the expenditure and income of currency in foreign trade through the creation of the Tracking and Tracing of Foreign Trade Transactions Unit, responsible for monitoring “prices and quantities of exported and imported goods and services, as well as foreign currency income/expenditures.”

• Monday, November 17th 2014 - 06:06 UTC

  UK will not support World Bank loans to Argentina; British public opinion against such aid

  

  The United Kingdom contributions mostly through World Bank loans and aid to Argentina have again been questioned in Britain with demands on Prime Minister David Cameron to block British taxpayers cash going to the country which has 'precarious finances' and a long standing demand over the Falkland Islands sovereignty.

• Monday, November 17th 2014 - 06:01 UTC

  Thousands march in Buenos Aires marathon in support for Falklands' dialogue

  

  Thousands of people participated Sunday in a race organized by Argentina's government to press for a dialogue with Britain over the Falkland Islands, officials said.“#YoCorroPorMalvinas was a success! More than 10 thousand people came out today to say Yes to a dialogue for the Malvinas,” Malvinas Islands Affairs Secretary Daniel Filmus said in a Twitter post.

• Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentine inflation: make your pick, in October anywhere from 1.2% to 2.3%

  

  A reliable universally accepted rate of inflation in Argentina seems hard to come by although there are a battery of estimates, each of them arguing they are supported by statistically proven methods and thus the certainty of the indexes released.

• Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 05:24 UTC

  Falklands' naval exercises: “regular routine training”, says Ministry of Defense

  

  UK described recent combined military exercises in and around the Falkland Islands as part of regular routine training. The statement follows on Thursday's strong Argentine protest, (which claims sovereignty over the (Malvinas) Islands), and called the military exercises a “new provocation”.

• Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 01:13 UTC

  Parlasur dialogue with Kelpers: a great opportunity lost

  

  By Jaime Trobo (*) - Parlasur, acronym for Mercosur Parliament, decided to approve a declaration relative to the Malvinas Islands situation, and more specifically on the sovereignty conflict between the Argentine Republic and Great Britain, which has been ongoing for over 180 years with no reasonable accord.

• Wednesday, November 12th 2014 - 18:16 UTC

  Falklanders invited to 'third party' dialogue with Argentine lawmakers

  

  An Argentine congressman has extended an open invitation to two, three 'inhabitants of the Falkland Islands', to participate in a meeting with Argentine lawmakers interested in listening to the 'third party' in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute.

• Wednesday, November 12th 2014 - 07:00 UTC

  Argentina raids 71 banks and financial entities suspected of money laundering

  

  Argentina's AFIP tax revenue service on Tuesday carried out searches at 71 banks, currency exchanges and other financial entities suspected of money laundering, the government said. More than 250 agents took part in the operation, which involved institutions in this capital and in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Mendoza and Cordoba, AFIP said in a statement.

• Wednesday, November 12th 2014 - 06:42 UTC

  Petrobras Argentina plans to invest 622m dollars to explore for shale gas

  

  The Argentine unit of Brazilian state-controlled oil giant Petrobras plans to invest 622 million dollars to explore for non-conventional natural gas in Neuquen, the Argentine government announced on Monday.