Argentina

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2013 - 07:43 UTC

  Dollar drought forces Argentina to extend whitewash law until December 31

  

  Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández has decided to extend the deadline of the whitewash law until the end of December. The recently passed project expired on Monday with 341.5 million dollars entering the country.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 20:40 UTC

  Argentina’s squid fisheries policy “inconsistent and unsustainable” says expert

  

  Argentina’s latest government’s decisions on squid fishing show that the country’s fisheries policy is “inconsistent and unsustainable,” according to the president of Assistance Food Argentina SA and director of Assistance Food America Inc., Dr. Cesar Augusto Lerena.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 18:32 UTC

  US Supreme Court possible action on Argentina/hedge funds case deferred a week

  

  The US Supreme Court on Tuesday took no action on a landmark case pitting Argentina against creditors which could have deep repercussions for financially troubled governments and their creditors. The court had been expected to announce whether it would review the case, but it was not included in a list of cases accepted or denied for review that was released on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 17:40 UTC

  Falklands cruise season: Ushuaia warns “Gaucho Rivero” bill will be fully enforced

  

  The “Gaucho Rivero” bill which bans the access of British flagged (red ensign) or convenience flagged vessels which call in the Falkland Islands remains fully in force for Ushuaia, said Marcelo Echazú, head of the Tierra del Fuego Tourism Institute, Infuetur, on announcing this year’s cruise season.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 06:46 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez and Mujica in a prudent silence over the pulp mill controversy

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández met on Monday with her Uruguayan counterpart José Mujica after the pair inaugurated a new vessel belonging to the ferry company Buquebús, (which joins Montevideo with Buenos Aires), in order to discuss matters related to the controversial UPM pulp plant formerly known as Botnia.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 04:08 UTC

  Argentine vote intention polls confirm challenger Massa chances for this month’s mid-term election

  

  With less than a month for Argentina’s mid term elections the opposition to President Cristina Fernandez in the province of Buenos Aires, the largest and crucial electoral circuit clearly leads in public opinion polls and continues to advance over the primary results of August.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 03:55 UTC

  Argentina buys 16 Mirage F 1 from Spain; half have air-refuelling capacity

  

  Argentina has confirmed the purchase of 16 second hand Mirage F-1 decommissioned from the Spanish Air force in an operation valued at 170 million Euros. The expenditure is contemplated in the 2014 budget bill approved in the Lower House and which awaits debate in the Senate.

• Monday, September 30th 2013 - 17:03 UTC

  Argentina/Iran meeting in Geneva in November to address the AMIA bombing

  

  Iran and Argentina have confirmed they will be meeting in November in Geneva to continue discussions on the Memorandum of Understanding to jointly probe the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires 19 years ago. The information was announced following two meetings held on Saturday between Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif at the UN headquarters in New York.

• Monday, September 30th 2013 - 17:00 UTC

  Argentina hopes US Supreme Court hears its case with the hedge funds

  

  The US Supreme Court was scheduled to meet behind closed doors on Monday to decide whether to hear a high-profile appeal by Argentina over its battle with hedge funds that refused to take part in two debt restructurings that sprang from the country's 2002 default.

• Monday, September 30th 2013 - 16:52 UTC

  Argentine flagged vessels catch of Illex squid totaled 186.969 tons, says Inidep

  

  A report from Argentina’s INIDEP (fisheries research institute) presented to the Fisheries Federal Council last week indicates that during 2013 Illex squid catches totalled 434.561 tons of which 156.163 were landed by 66 Argentine jiggers. The report identified as Number 20, refers to the first 35 weeks of this year, (1 to 35) and includes Argentine waters and outside Argentina’s Exclusive Economic Zone, ZEEA.