Politics

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 07:40 UTC

  Argentine ‘Congress index’ shows January inflation reached 1.9%

  

  Argentine congress members announced on Wednesday that the inflation index for January based on an average of private sector estimates reached 1.9%, similar to the previous month of December.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 07:37 UTC

  Argentina has the (Central bank) cash to take over YPF, says Barclays Capital

  

  Argentina has the cash reserves to make a tender offer for Repsol-YPF SA local unit, the country’s largest energy company, and will likely put further pressure on the industry to boost output, has stated Barclays Capital.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 07:34 UTC

  Paraguay’s second couple in hospital with dengue

  

  Paraguay’s Vice president Federico Franco and his wife lawmaker Emilia Alfaro are in hospital in the capital Asuncion following infection symptoms of the mosquito transmitted dengue which is very common in tropical areas during the rainy season.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 23:38 UTC

  Turn on your ‘sepoy’ detector and weed out the ‘anti-Malvinas traitors’

  

  Jorge Lanata is one of Argentina’s most famous and fierce journalists, feared by politicians and union leaders, famous for uncovering corruption and confronting the sacred cows of the country’s establishment. This week he made some controversial comments about the Malvinas Islands which rocked the whole country.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 23:28 UTC

  Argentina has no more claim to the Falklands than Canada does to Alaska

  

  Argentina has no more claim to the Falklands than Canada does to Alaska Giving the Falkland Islands to Argentina makes as much sense as giving Alaska to Canada: none whatsoever, says George Grant.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 22:14 UTC

  US diplomacy reiterates Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty is a bilateral issue

  

  The US Acting Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson, ratified the Obama administration’s standing on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty issue, which urges Argentina and the United Kingdom to find a diplomatic exit to the matter.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 22:08 UTC

  Brazil celebrating unconfirmed report that Lula da Silva is free of cancer

  

  A piece of news in a Brazilian website on Wednesday today caused a wave of reactions and expectations when it declared sources close to the medical team treating former Brazilian President Lula da Silva for a throat cancer said he is free of the disease.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 20:24 UTC

  Argentina’s night of “show-biz” leaves Falkland Islanders feeling bemused?

  

  The night of “show-biz” glitz, light-shows, orchestrated crowds and even musical allusions, that surrounded Tuesday night’s announcement on the Falklands by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez from the Casa Rosada has left Falkland Islanders on the streets of Stanley feeling slightly bemused at the scenes, considered by many to be more reminiscent of the half-time entertainment at a Super-Bowl than a political debate.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 20:16 UTC

  Furious Malvinas war veterans attack lawmaker; claim they were ‘manipulated’

  

  A group of Malvinas war veterans assaulted Tuesday evening an Argentine lawmaker as he exited Government House following President Cristina Fernandez Malvinas war “give peace a chance” speech. He had to be rescued by the police and driven away in his car.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 20:06 UTC

  Russian icebreaker ‘Vasily Golovnin’ supplying Argentine Antarctica bases

  

  The Russian icebreaker ‘Vasily Golovnin’ left Buenos Aires this week for Antarctica to deliver equipment, fuel, food and general cargo to Argentina’s Antarctic bases.