Argentina

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 07:06 UTC

  Cascade of legal challenges to Cristina Fernandez Council of Magistrates reform

  

  At least sixteen different organizations from magistrates to political parties filed on Monday legal challenges after Argentine president Cristina Fernandez signed the Council of Magistrates reform into law and called for elections of council members.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 06:38 UTC

  Lawmakers accuse Cristina Fernandez before a federal court of falsifying stats

  

  Several Argentine lawmakers from opposition parties accused President Cristina Fernandez and Domestic Trade minister Guillermo Moreno of allegedly ‘falsifying” the figures published by the government’s official stats office Indec.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 06:10 UTC

  YPF loses arbitration that could cost 1.6bn dollars; stocks plunge 3.6%

  

  YPF the oil company seized by Argentina’s government last year has lost an arbitration case with a Brazilian company that may cost as much as 1.6 billion dollars in indemnity payments. There was an immediate reaction and YPF shares lost the most among Argentina’s major stocks, 3.6%.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 06:00 UTC

  Fearing Andes volcano eruption, Chile and Argentina order mandatory evacuation

  

  Chilean and Argentine authorities declared a red alert and ordered the mandatory evacuation of a 25-km radius around the active Copahue volcano, which straddles the border between the two Andean nations.

• Monday, May 27th 2013 - 08:26 UTC

  Program on Kirchnerite corruption exposure beats football in Argentina

  

  An Argentine investigative journalist program on alleged corruption involving former president Nestor Kirchner and his business cronies had a greater audience than a football match of Boca Juniors, the country’s most popular team disputing the Argentine premier league.

• Monday, May 27th 2013 - 07:18 UTC

  “The Malvinas are Argentine, but also Latinamerican” says President Correa

  

  “The Malvinas Islands are not only Argentine, they are Latinamerica”, said Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa who claimed it was time to put an end to the ‘colonial situation’ of the disputed Islands in the South Atlantic and blasted the Organization of American States, OAS for dragging its feet on this and other crucial issues for the continent.

• Monday, May 27th 2013 - 07:11 UTC

  Falklands’ dispute expert named Argentine ambassador in Dublin

  

  An expert in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute and professional diplomat has been accepted as the new Argentine ambassador in Ireland. Silvia Maria Merega has held important posts at the Organization of American States in Washington, before the European Union and at the Argentine embassy in the US.

• Monday, May 27th 2013 - 05:16 UTC

  CFK calls for ‘empowerment of the people’ and another ten years of Kirchnerism

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd Saturday night celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began in 2003. Her voice breaking, she called it a victorious decade, “won not by a government but by the people” and called for “the empowerment of the people” to defend what has been achieved in the ‘won decade’.

• Monday, May 27th 2013 - 05:00 UTC

  Argentina’s industrial production up in April, but down in four months of 2013

  

  Argentina's April industrial production rose 1.7% over the same month a year earlier with a big jump in automobile output and more modest gains in the production of building materials, government data showed on Friday.

• Monday, May 27th 2013 - 01:49 UTC

  Paraguay demands respect from Mercosur, “if not leave us as we are”

  

  The Argentine ambassador to Uruguay, Dante Dovena, assured that authorities are “working intensely” in preparations for the next Mercosur summit scheduled to take place on June 28th in Montevideo. However news form Paraguay doesn’t indicate the same optimism and are demanding respect for ‘the country’s dignity and rule of the law”.