Argentina

• Monday, August 12th 2013 - 01:45 UTC

  Falklands and Gibraltar: Spain considering a joint front with Argentina at UN, says Madrid media

  

  Spanish Foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo will be visiting Argentina next September to meet with his peer Hector Timerman to discuss the Gibraltar and Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty disputes and consider the possibility of a joint front.

• Monday, August 12th 2013 - 01:24 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez defeated in Argentina’s main electoral districts; Massa pledges ‘end to confrontation’

  

  President Cristina Fernandez Victory Front managed to remain as the leading political force nationwide on Sunday’s congressional primaries but her opponents emerged exceptionally strong in the all-important province of Buenos Aires and the other main districts of the country, to the extent that some political analysts anticipate the beginning of the end of the ten years of Kirchnerism.

• Sunday, August 11th 2013 - 21:28 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez will attend Cartes inauguration in Paraguay; problems with Mercosur protocol

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez confirmed by writing that she would be attending the inauguration of Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes next Thursday 15 August, according the organization committee of the event in Asuncion, Ambassador Federico Gonzalez and head of Protocol at the Paraguayan foreign ministry.

• Saturday, August 10th 2013 - 17:06 UTC

  Argentina Sunday primaries a leadership dispute inside the hegemonic Peronist party

  

  On Sunday Argentina will go to the polls to select their candidates for the country’s upcoming October legislative elections. Though it may seem a trivial democratic chapter, the open, mandatory and simultaneous primaries will in fact be the first step in an election that is likely to prove critical to Argentina and most probably a referendum on President Cristina Fernandez’ administration.

• Saturday, August 10th 2013 - 02:10 UTC

  Indigenous peoples in Argentina: “we don’t want to be considered strangers in our own country”

  

  “We want to live as human beings. We don’t want to be considered as strangers in our own country, poor or useless. We want to live without discrimination. We don’t want blood shed, we just want to reclaim our community,” said to Amnesty International Félix Díaz, leader of the Qom indigenous community of Potae Napocna Navogoh (La Primavera), in Argentina’s northern province of Formosa.

• Friday, August 9th 2013 - 04:54 UTC

  Protests and pot banging against Cristina Fernandez administration in Buenos Aires

  

  Protesters gathered around Buenos Aires obelisk and other neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires City to participate in a new protest against the administration of Argentine president Cristina Fernández, forty eight hours ahead of primary elections.

• Friday, August 9th 2013 - 04:28 UTC

  Argentina has begun distributing free a state-produced version of Viagra

  

  Argentina has begun distributing a free state-produced version of the erection-boosting drug Viagra for the first time, in a move intended to curb its misuse, health authorities announced Thursday.

• Friday, August 9th 2013 - 03:52 UTC

  “Argentina, the Falklands and the UN: Self-determined”

  

  This week’s incursion of President Cristina Fernandez at the United Nations Security Council, (because during August Argentina holds the rotating presidency of the council9 caught the attention of The Economist in a brief piece under the heading “Argentina, the Falklands and the UN: self determined”.

• Thursday, August 8th 2013 - 03:17 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez booed when she visited site of a tragic building collapse

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was booed and insulted when she visited on Wednesday afternoon at the site in the city of Rosario where at least ten people died when a several stories building collapsed following a major gas leak explosion.

• Thursday, August 8th 2013 - 03:10 UTC

  Argentina Electoral court urges Congress to revise laws on state advertising in campaign periods

  

  Argentina’s National Electoral Court urged the Congress to revise the laws concerning state advertising in electoral periods so as not to benefit ruling party candidates. There have been several claims that President Cristina Fernandez is going over the line in supporting her candidates.