Politics

• Saturday, February 25th 2012 - 15:18 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: an open letter to Sean Penn

  

  Dear Sean,
  I am writing in response to your comment in today's Guardian (23 February). We seem to have missed each other when you were recently in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 21:37 UTC

  Growing uproar in Argentina with the concession trains and transport system

  

  Argentina’s Auditor-General Leandro Despouy stated that TBA which holds the Sarmiento and Mitre train lines’ concessions should automatically lose all contracts after the fatal train crash that killed 50 and left more than 700 injured in Once Central Station in downtown Buenos Aires.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 20:38 UTC

  Uruguay admits textile exports could be infringing Brazil’s antidumping rules

  

  Uruguay’s Minister of Industry and Energy Roberto Kreimerman admitted that Brazil suspended the access of textiles from Uruguay alleging that they were essentially Chinese cloth rolls with minimum input but stamped as Uruguayan manufactured and dispatched to Brazil.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 20:06 UTC

  French women say Mademoiselle is sexist so now it’s simply Madame or Monsieur

  

  Official French documents will no longer force women to reveal their marital status by requiring them to choose the title Mademoiselle or Madame.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 19:31 UTC

  Liverpool final homecoming ceremony for Type 42 destroyer that carries city’s name

  

  The City of Liverpool is preparing to give one of its proudest symbols a final homecoming it will never forget is sailing into the city for her last ever official visit, before the vessel is decommissioned following thirty years of outstanding service.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 19:14 UTC

  The Malvinas/Falklands: diplomacy interrupted

  

  Sending Prince William to the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, gives out a message of intimidation. By Sean Penn

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 19:07 UTC

  Caritas Spain: 22% of households below poverty line, another 30% on the cliff

  

  A report examining Spain’s current levels of poverty has made national headlines after its launch revealed shocking figures. Caritas Spain has drawn attention to the precariousness facing millions of people at a time when networks of social aid are in danger of disappearing.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:53 UTC

  Visiting US congressman offers support for Falklands’ self-determination

  

  South American rhetoric on the Falklands should, “be cooled, otherwise mistakes might happen,” US member of the house of Representatives Republican Congressman F. Jim Sensenbrenner told the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly on Thursday.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentine claims of Falklands’ ‘militarization’ is ‘unfounded and baseless’

  

  Argentine claims that the UK is ‘militarizing’ the South Atlantic and the Falklands are ‘unfounded’ and ‘baseless’ according to a letter from British ambassador Mark Lyall-Grant addressed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:38 UTC

  Argentina and the price of cooking the books, according to The Economist

  

  History has left Argentines with more than their share of economic trauma. Having twice suffered destructive bouts of hyperinflation in the late 1980s, they are sensitive to rising prices. When they spot inflation their instinct is to dump the peso and buy dollars.