Politics

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 04:45 UTC

  Argentine government delays ‘lapidary’ report on the trains’ system

  

  With its strategic majority in Argentina’s National Auditing Office, AGN, the government of President Cristina Fernandez delegates managed to delay for two days a most critical report on the situation of the country’s train system and particularly the Sarmiento line involved in an accident which killed 51 passengers and injured 703.

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 04:39 UTC

  Union leader defies Cristina Fernandez: Moyano fears nobody and only bends before God

  

  The head of Argentina’s organized labour confederation, CGT, Hugo Moyano, asked the Government of President Cristina Fernandez to say whether they are going to accept their demands included in the collective bargaining talks or not, after warning that he “fears nobody” and that he only “bends before God.”

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 04:29 UTC

  Bernanke praises Euro-zone measures, but “critical fiscal and financial challenges remain”

  

  Testifying Wednesday before the US House Committee on Financial Services, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that 'critical fiscal and financial challenges remain for the Euro zone.'

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 04:09 UTC

  European MP calls for end to Argentine aid until it stops threatening Falklands

  

  A several million pounds EU aid program to help Argentina should be halted until the country stops “threatening” Britain over the Falkland Islands, said member of the European parliament Nerj Deva.

• Wednesday, February 29th 2012 - 14:35 UTC

  Foreign Office summons Argentine diplomat; limiting trade “counterproductive”

  

  Argentina's top diplomat in Britain was summoned to London's Foreign Office on Wednesday to explain his country's decision to ask 20 leading companies to stop importing British products and supplies.

• Wednesday, February 29th 2012 - 07:42 UTC

  Unasur presidents invited to Tierra del Fuego on 2 April, anniversary of the Malvinas war

  

  The Union of South American Nations, Unasur presidents have been invited by Argentina to a ceremony in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, next 2 April when the official beginning of the Malvinas war three decades ago.

• Wednesday, February 29th 2012 - 07:41 UTC

  Argentine teachers strike delays school year; four million children remain at home

  

  Almost 60% of Argentina’s school children could not begin the new school year and had to remain at home because of a 48 hours teachers strike following the collapse of salary negotiations.

• Wednesday, February 29th 2012 - 07:38 UTC

  Official report: Chavez in good physical condition; pelvic lesion completely extracted

  

  Surgeons “completely” removed a lesion from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's pelvis and the populist leader is in good physical condition after the operation in Cuba, Venezuela's vice president said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, February 29th 2012 - 07:11 UTC

  Greece slashes minimum wage and pensions to help rescue the Euro

  

  Greece approved bitter new austerity measures on Tuesday, slashing the minimum wage and chopping pensions as Athens began implementing measures demanded by international lenders in return for a 130 billion Euro rescue package.

• Wednesday, February 29th 2012 - 01:43 UTC

  Pink Floyd lead singer says the Malvinas Islands “belong to Argentina”

  

  Former Pink Floyd lead singer Roger Waters, who has nine shows scheduled in Buenos Aires at the River Plate stadium this March, assured that the Malvinas Islands “belong to Argentina. He also stated that the 1982 war between Argentina and the UK “saved then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s political career.”