The saga of the Argentine Navy flagship ARA Libertad retained in Ghana seems to have no short term political solution as the government of President Cristina Fernandez was expecting, while in Buenos Aires the head of military strategic intelligence resigned and there is mounting pressure on the Ministry of Defence.
The military governor of the Falkland Islands during Argentina’s brief occupation of the archipelago in 1982 was detained for his alleged role in human rights abuses at a notorious torture center in the 1970s, prosecutors said Thursday.
The UN General Assembly elected Argentina, Rwanda and Australia to the 15-national Security Council for 2013 and 2014. Rwanda and Argentina were unopposed in their bids for the Africa seat and the Latin American and Caribbean seat.
Gold miner Minera IRL Ltd reports it has secured government permits to build its Don Nicolas pit mine in Argentine Patagonia and is now seeking financing to get the 57 million dollars project up and running next year, the company said on Wednesday.
The Argentine Foreign ministry said in an official release on Wednesday that the UN Security Council had received, and incorporated to its agenda, a formal complaint on the UK latest military exercises in the Falkland Islands.
Argentina's state-controlled energy company YPF sold medium-term local currency debt equivalent to a total of 423.2 million dollars on Wednesday, a stock market filing showed.
The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) began proceedings this week concerning Argentina’s refusal to extradite Galvarino Apablaza for the 1991 murder of emblematic conservative Senator Jaime Guzmán.
Moody's Investor Service announced on Wednesday it has downgraded the issuer and debt ratings of several provinces and cities in Argentina, due to the risks these states may face to access foreign currency and serve their obligations in foreign currency.
Brazil's former President Lula Da Silva blasted the protectionist measures of the developed countries and called for the alliance between businessmen from his country and Argentina's, as he highlighted that Brazil grows, but with a controlled inflation rate.
When Argentina proposed a brutal 65% haircut to holders of its defaulted sovereign bonds in a 2005 restructuring, one argument the country’s officials used to justify the offer was that the country could not take on more debt than it could reasonably expect to pay. As painful as the loss might be, the argument went at least the new bonds the government would issue would be creditworthy.