Argentina

• Wednesday, December 26th 2012 - 06:03 UTC

  YPF and PDVSA will explore Malvinas continental shelf for oil, says Pagina 12

  

  According to reports in the Argentine media, the nationalized Argentine oil company YPF, formerly owned by Spain's Repsol, will be teaming up with Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA to explore the continental shelf around the Falkland/Malvinas Islands for oil.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2012 - 22:22 UTC

  Preaching resentment and confrontation led to extended rioting in Argentina, says leading political analyst

  

  Argentina has lost its limits and references, and this was dramatically expressed these last few days says Joaquin Morales Solá, one of the country’s most respected political analysts, when the looting and rioting extended from Resistencia to the north next to Paraguay, to Bariloche in Patagonia.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2012 - 20:07 UTC

  Uruguayan famous striker holds football training camp in the Falklands

  

  Footballers both young and old, in the Falkland Islands have had the opportunity and rare privilege this last week of being coached by one of the game’s legends.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2012 - 08:15 UTC

  Rioting and looting because the President is out of touch with the people, says Moyano

  

  Argentine dissident organized labour leader Hugo Moyano claimed on Friday that President Cristina Fernandez is out of touch with the people and “the lackeys she has are scared of her and can only say stupid things”. Moyano’s strong words followed accusations by the government that he was behind the extended rioting and looting that hit several Argentine cities on Thursday and Friday.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2012 - 08:08 UTC

  Argentina strongly protests UK’s naming Queen Elizabeth land in Antarctica

  

  Argentina strongly protested on Friday Britain's decision to name a vast swath of Antarctica as Queen Elizabeth Land. The Foreign ministry handed a formal protest note to British Ambassador John Freeman in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2012 - 08:03 UTC

  World Bank’s arbitration unit receives Repsol’s complaint over YPF nationalization

  

  The World Bank's arbitration unit has agreed to hear a complaint by Spanish oil firm Repsol over Argentina's nationalization of the company's former energy affiliate YPF.

• Friday, December 21st 2012 - 22:39 UTC

  Looting extends in Argentina: two people shot dead, dozens injured in clashes with police

  

  A rash of looting and ransacking of supermarkets in Argentine major cities and several provinces left two people killed, dozens injured and hundreds arrested. The looting and vandalizing of supermarkets began in the Patagonian resort of Bariloche on Thursday and seemingly triggered a knock-on effect across different provinces, as similar incidents began to arise in Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Chaco provinces.

• Friday, December 21st 2012 - 00:12 UTC

  Buenos Aires sends Border guard to contain rioting and looting in Bariloche

  

  The Argentine government is deploying four hundred border guards to the Patagonian resort of Bariloche following violent looting in several local supermarkets and other businesses on Wednesday. Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina made the announcement on national television.

• Thursday, December 20th 2012 - 18:00 UTC

  ARA Libertad: Ghana port authority lost 7.6m dollars; could demand NML Capital

  

  Ghana’s Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) admits to having lost 7.6 million dollars as a result of the Argentine frigate ARA Libertad's occupation of its prime berth for a period of 76 days, reports Accra’s Graphic Online.

• Thursday, December 20th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  “Madame President: pls address inflation and rampant crime” demands Argentine organized labour

  

  Argentine dissident organized labour concentrated at the emblematic Plaza de Mayo and claimed the government of Cristina Fernandez was applying IMF recipes by halting wage hikes for workers and called on the Lady to address inflation and rampant crime.