Argentina

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 06:45 UTC

  Falkland Islands: it’s a three-side debate; Argentina must recognize Islanders right to decide their future

  

  UK conditioned a possible re-launching of agreements on hydrocarbons and fisheries in the South Atlantic to Argentina accepting ‘there will be no sovereignty negotiations’ regarding the Malvinas Islands and called for the Argentine government to respect the wishes of the Falkland Islanders.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 06:43 UTC

  Argentines expect inflation to average 34.9% in the next twelve months

  

  Argentines expect inflation to average 34.9% in the next twelve months according to a private report released on Monday by the Finance Research Centre, CIF, belonging to the Torcuato Di Tella University.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 06:34 UTC

  Falklands: optimism about identification of the unknown Argentine soldiers

  

  An Argentine delegation involved in human rights that in early May visited the Falkland Islands is optimistic about the possibility of advancing in the identification of the remains of Argentine soldiers buried as unknown in unmarked graves at the Darwin cemetery.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 05:05 UTC

  Falklands MPA has the minimum force necessary to prevent a repeat of 1982 invasion

  

  The UK military base in the Falkland Islands has the “minimum necessary force to prevent a repeat of the illegal invasion such as that of 1982” committed by Argentina said Foreign Office Minister of State for Latinamerican affairs Hugo Swire during an interview with the Argentine news agency, Diarios y Noticias. (*)

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 05:01 UTC

  Argentina absorbs 93% of beef production, exports tumble behind Paraguay

  

  Argentine government trade restrictions on overseas sales of beef have turned Paraguay into Mercosur third largest exporter behind Brazil and Uruguay. The first place last year belonged to Brazil with exports of 1.3 million tons; Uruguay, 350.000 tons; Paraguay, 210.00 and finally Argentina.183.000 tons.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 19:56 UTC

  Almirante Irizar en route to becoming another major scandal for Argentina’s navy

  

  Argentina’ icebreaker Almirante Irizar, docked for repairs since 2007 is en route to becoming another major scandal involving the Ministry of Defence and the Argentine Navy’s fleet. In the last six years Argentina has invested the equivalent of 200 million dollars in the recovery of the vessel that caught fire in 2007 and another 75 million dollars in contracting vessels to supply the Antarctic bases and stations.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 19:47 UTC

  Brazil trapped by Argentina and Venezuela economic mismanagements

  

  Brazil’s main financial newspaper Valor Economico revealed that the recent summit between Presidents Cristina Fernandez and Dilma Rousseff from Argentina and Brazil was far from polite and enlightening, rather the contrary with “strong disagreements in the fields of trade and investment” shaking the foundations of Mercosur.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 19:41 UTC

  Iran enforces memorandum with Argentina to look into AMIA terrorist bombing

  

  The business representative of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires Alí Pakdaman announced on Monday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad endorsed without Congress approval the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Argentina and Tehran in order to investigate the AMIA Jewish centre bombing which killed 85 people in 1994.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 07:12 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Argentina blasts UK’s ‘double standard’ on self determination right

  

  Argentina questioned the UK after its negative vote at the United Nations General Assembly “to place French Polynesia back on the UN list of non autonomous territories that should be decolonised” Additionally Argentina renewed its claim over the Falkland Islands sovereignty and described the UK attitude, ‘colonial hypocrisy’.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 05:00 UTC

  Lan privileged passengers but will review investments and expects ‘common sense’ from Argentine officials

  

  Lan Chile admitted the company had to yield to the demands from the Argentine company Intercargo, which monopolizes ground services in all the country’s air terminals, so that they could resume normal traffic in Argentina. It also said that it was not leaving Argentine but would review future investments and expects more common sense from local authorities.