Argentina

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 - 03:07 UTC

  German oil company ignores YPF seizure and keeps expanding activities in Argentina

  

  Germany's Wintershall, the oil and gas arm of chemicals group BASF, said on Monday it was unperturbed by the enforced nationalisation of Argentine oil company YPF, having just been awarded another oil and gas licence there.

• Monday, May 21st 2012 - 02:17 UTC

  Google Earth will tell the world that Patagonia is coming out of the ashes

  

  Ash-victims in Argentina from the Chilean Puyehue volcano eruption are mounting a huge sign to the picked up by the Earth Google satellite inviting world tourists to return to Patagonia. The project should be finished in coming weeks and is promoted by the NGO Solidarity Network Argentina.

• Monday, May 21st 2012 - 01:25 UTC

  Bargains forecasts in Uruguay as Argentine investors withdraw funds following new bank rules

  

  By Dean Steinbeck (*) As much as it defies common sense, Uruguay entered into a tax sharing agreement that will scare off Argentine investors; the same group of people who are Uruguay’s biggest source of capital, investment, and innovation.

• Saturday, May 19th 2012 - 14:21 UTC

  Argentine activity expands 4% in March but continues steady deceleration

  

  Argentina's economic activity slowed in March to 4% year-on-year continuing a steady deceleration from the China-like rates seen through October, government data showed on Friday.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 22:56 UTC

  Buenos Aires open city for marriages of opposite of same sex partners

  

  The City of Buenos Aires will allow foreigners that arrive in Argentina to get married –with either opposite sex or same sex partners- within five days of a request to the Civil Registry and only needing a temporary real address.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 22:54 UTC

  EU ambassador in Argentina suggests “negotiated agreement” for the Repsol/YPF dispute

  

  The European Ambassador to Argentina, Spanish native Alfonso Díez Torres, stressed on Friday that the solution for the YPF seizure conflict would be “a negotiated agreement” between Argentina and Repsol.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 22:39 UTC

  Repsol cancels contract to supply Argentina with LNG; YPF ensures supply

  

  Spain’s Repsol has cancelled its contract to supply Argentina with liquefied natural gas (LNG), just weeks after the country seized control of the company's majority stake in YPF, a document obtained by international news agency Reuters showed.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 22:35 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez insisted in Angola on the South Atlantic as “an area of peace”

  

  President Cristina Fernández highlighted the importance of keeping the South Atlantic region as ”an area of peace, free of militarization,” during her speech before the National Assembly of Angola on Friday.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 18:10 UTC

  Latam Nobel Prize blames Peronism for Argentina’s “self destruction” addiction

  

  Literature Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa blamed Peronism for the self-destruction which is leading Argentina to underdevelopment, poverty and populism, and compared the dominating political movement trajectory to that which took Adolf Hitler to power.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 18:03 UTC

  CFK highlights “magnificent opportunity” for Angola/Argentina trade

  

  President Cristina Fernández highlighted the “magnificent opportunity” Argentina and Angola had in coming together on future business transactions, particularly in the face of the global financial crisis, while addressing a meeting with businessmen in Angloa where she is on a three day official visit.