Politics

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 15:10 UTC

  Falklands: Argentina deplores PM Cameron’s “regrettable act of arrogance”

  

  The Argentine Government said it “deplores that, in a regrettable act of arrogance, the United Kingdom claims to have the authority to ‘put an end’ to the unresolved conflict regarding the Malvinas Islands sovereignty, a case that is currently being recognized by the United Nations.”

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 13:20 UTC

  Argentina about to have its first gay divorce: a lesbian couple

  

  Argentina is about to have its first gay divorce, not quite a year after a groundbreaking law legalized homosexual marriage.

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 06:14 UTC

  Humala announces an “open channel of direct communication” with Chile

  

  Peruvian president-elect Ollanta Humala highlighted the “open channel of direct communication” established with Chile and President Sebastian Piñera following a two hour meeting on Wednesday between the two leaders in Santiago’s presidential palace.

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 06:10 UTC

  Brazil’s default risk lower than the US, claims Minister Mantega

  

  Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said Wednesday that his country's default risk had become lower than that of the United States.

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 06:07 UTC

  Another provincial election confirms support for CFK re-election bid

  

  Another provincial ally of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, was re-elected Governor in the Patagonian province of Neuquen confirming the ample support for the head of state’s re-election bid next October.

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 01:48 UTC

  Under pressure Argentina returns seized cargo from US military plane

  

  The US embassy in Buenos Aires announced this week that the Argentine government has finally returned the cargo seized from an American military plane that landed at the Ezeiza airport amidst espionage accusations last February.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 23:35 UTC

  Argentina’s official May ‘fantasy’ inflation 0.7%; private consultants, 1.5%

  

  Inflation in Argentina reached 0.7% in May compared to the volume reported in the previous month, the Indec national statistics bureau announced on Wednesday. The official rate is less than half what was presented on Tuesday by opposition lawmakers, which they assured reached 1.5% and 23% in the last twelve months.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 21:37 UTC

  Siemens manager charged for allegedly bribing Argentine officials with 27 million USD

  

  A former management board member of Germany’s Siemens AG has been charged with breach of trust for alleged bribery payments made to win a project in Argentina, the Munich State Prosecutors office said this week.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 21:08 UTC

  Spain accuses Gibraltar before the C 24 of “colonialism by consent”

  

  Spain has told the United Nations Committee of 24 (C24) that despite the “impasse afflicting the Brussels process”, Madrid's goodwill allows regional co-operation with Gibraltar and UK to continue under the Tripartite Forum.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 20:22 UTC

  Dilma moving closer to the opposition and “taking distance from Lula da Silva”

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has exchanged approximation signals with the opposition, beginning to “take distance” from her mentor Lula da Silva and seems closer to opposition Senator and former president Fernando Cardoso.