Argentina

• Thursday, March 7th 2013 - 07:01 UTC

  IMF mission in Argentina to check financial system, in framework of G20

  

  Officials from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank arrived in Argentina on Tuesday to evaluate the country's financial system as part of checkups agreed among Group of 20 nations, according to a report from the official state news agency, Telam.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 21:15 UTC

  “Malvinazo” out-blasted in Ushuaia by ‘Star Princess’ playing “God save the Queen”

  

  A demonstration by pickets in the Argentine Tierra del Fuego port of Ushuaia protesting the docking of the ‘Star Princess’ cruise which arrived from the Falkland Islands was contained by local security forces and the blaring of ‘God save the Queen’.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 05:33 UTC

  An estimated one million dollars ‘trickled’ per day from Argentina to Uruguayan banks

  

  The dollar ‘clamp’ in Argentina had led to a ‘dollar trickle’ to Uruguayan banks, which according to official data from the two central banks can be estimated at a million dollars per day.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 00:39 UTC

  The Falklanders will speak clearly

  

  The Globe and Mail (*) editorial published Sunday, March - As a country that with some justice prides itself as a global beacon for democracy, the United States should abandon its equivocation over the status of the Falkland Islands and agree to throw its considerable weight behind the winner of the referendum asking Islanders whether they wish to remain a UK overseas territory.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 00:09 UTC

  Argentina dismisses referendum; warns Falklands’ oil industry “unfeasible” without regional ties

  

  The referendum on the fate of the Falkland Islands is a publicity stunt with no legal status, Argentina's ambassador to Britain said on Monday, warning that oil exploitation around the territory was impossible without better regional ties.

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 06:32 UTC

  Falklands’ governor tells The Sun “Argentina keeps making stuff up”

  

  Falkland Islands Governor Nigel Haywood accused Argentina of “making stuff up” in its relentless verbal assault on the UK and the Islands. With a referendum on whether the Islanders want to remain British less than a week away, Haywood vowed to keep “pushing back” against the “extraordinary” sabre-rattling, UK’s sensationalist tabloid The Sun published.

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:43 UTC

  Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Another Falklands?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Chinese survey vessels go into the waters around the disputed islands and Japanese patrol ships tail them much too closely. Twice last month Chinese maritime surveillance aircraft flew into the airspace around the Japanese-controlled islands and Tokyo scrambled F-15 fighters to meet them. On the second occasion, China then sent fighters too. Can these people be serious?

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:34 UTC

  C24 president insists Falklands dispute is over sovereignty, not self determination

  

  The UN Decolonisation Committee has not received any further requests on the Falklands/Malvinas issue, and “there is no such procedure as self-determination regarding the Islands dispute”, according to the C24 president Diego Morejón Pazmiño, standing Ecuadorean ambassador before the UN.

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:12 UTC

  Argentina has 1.8 million foreign immigrants: mostly from neighbouring countries

  

  Immigrants in Argentine represent 4.5% of the population and 85% of them come from neighbouring South American countries according to the latest report from the International Migration Organization. The figure is an estimated 1.8 million foreigners of which 550.713 are from Paraguay; 345.272 from Bolivia; 191.147 from Chile and 157.514 from Peru.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2013 - 08:36 UTC

  Mujica says Mercosur is a stalled pachyderm and needs trade accords with third parties

  

  Mercosur more than a common market is a “poor customs union” said Uruguayan president Jose Mujica adding that new discussions on the future of the group’s future should be considered but which imply the possibility of establishing new free trade agreements with third parties.