Argentina

• Tuesday, April 1st 2014 - 01:24 UTC

  Malvinas war veterans plan symbolic repeat of Falklands invasion in Ushuaia

  

  Ushuaia Malvinas war veterans are planning a symbolic repeat of the Falklands military invasion by Argentine forces on the night of April first 1982, although this time the landing will take place along the Beagle Channel coast, according to reports from the capital of Tierra del Fuego in the extreme south of Argentina.

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 19:28 UTC

  Mercosur expects to exchange tariff-reduction proposals with EU next June

  

  Mercosur expects to present a joint proposal regarding tariff reductions to the European Union during a meeting next June, according to Brazil's Minister of Development, Trade and Industry, Mauro Borges who apparently convinced a reluctant Argentina to join the group.

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 19:25 UTC

  Brazil/Argentina agree on deal to promote bilateral trade by guaranteeing 'dollar liquidity'

  

  Brazil and Argentina signed a deal over the weekend that seeks to guarantee importers will have enough U.S. dollars to pay for exports, a move to increase trade between both nations that has been hit hard by a sharp depreciation of the Argentine peso.

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 15:27 UTC

  Argentina lobbies for Malvinas sovereignty claim in East Timor

  

  A high level Argentine diplomatic mission visited last week Timor-Leste, in the Asia Pacific area to reaffirm close political, economic and cooperation links between the two countries, and confirm support for Argentina's demand for Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty negotiations with the UK.

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 11:50 UTC

  Nobel 1936 Peace Prize medal, originally extended to an Argentine, auctioned at 1.1 million

  

  A 1936 Nobel Peace Prize medal, only the second such medal to be sold at auction, has fetched 1.1 million dollars in a sale to a private Asian collector, auctioneers Stack's Bowers said on Friday.

• Saturday, March 29th 2014 - 09:22 UTC

  ‘Kelpers’, helping Argentine to understand the Falklands growing nation

  

  The reaction of the Argentine public to Clarin journalist and author Natasha Niebieskikwiat's recently launched book ‘Kelpers’ has been, “less aggressive,” than she expected Natasha told Penguin News.

• Saturday, March 29th 2014 - 05:46 UTC

  Argentina takes EU biodiesel antidumping measures to WTO

  

  Argentina formally requested the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) the establishment of a panel to address the European Union antidumping measures against Argentine bio-diesel. The initiative was rejected by the EU this week.

• Saturday, March 29th 2014 - 05:43 UTC

  Argentina denies the subsidies reduction will have an inflationary impact

  

  Argentina's new subsidies’ scheme will have an “insignificant” impact on prices since the whole package basically involves a 'redistribution' of funds, argued Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich, emphasizing the decision aims at “encouraging the rational and responsible use of public services.”

• Friday, March 28th 2014 - 19:36 UTC

  EU sanitary delegation to inspect Argentina's fishing industry whole cycle

  

  Delegates from the European Union (EU) are to visit Argentina between September and December later this year to inspect the facilities that comprise the whole fishing production circuit: docks, boats, processing plants authorized to export to EU and offices of the National Service of Agri-food health and quality, (Senasa).

• Friday, March 28th 2014 - 08:39 UTC

  In memory of Malvinas, a passage is officially named “April 2” instead of 'Inglaterra'

  

  Buenos Aires City councilors gave final approval to a bill that officially names “April 2”, a passage in the neighborhood of Agronomia, which was re-baptized with that name by residents during the 1982 Malvinas war conflict, who erased the original name of 'England'.