Politics

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:54 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner will head Malvinas commemoration April 2 in Ushuaia

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will head next Friday April 2 in Ushuaia commemorations to honour Malvinas veterans and those fallen during the 1982 conflict over the Falklands with Britain, according to Tierra del Fuego press reports.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:52 UTC

  President Piñera’s Brother Will Dance For A Dream in Argentina

  

  Previously described as “a night club owner, musician, and notorious party animal” by Foreign Policy magazine, Miguel Piñera is taking steps to establish his career as a musician — conveniently outside the country where his brother is president.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:48 UTC

  Falklands training ground for UK troops to be deployed in Afghanistan

  

  Eight thousand miles from the United Kingdom in the Falkland Islands more than 150 soldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment are preparing for war.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:36 UTC

  Argentine leader challenges Mr. Kirchner to admit he will run in 2011

  

  Former Argentine take-care president Eduardo Duhalde anticipated that next year's ruling Justicialist Party primary elections will be a duo solo between him and also former president Néstor Carlos Kirchner.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:34 UTC

  Falklands: “no return to the 80s”, tacit UK/Argentine agreement

  

  Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant said that UK and Argentina agree there is “no return to the eighties” regarding the Falkland Islands which he underlined are British as long as the Islanders so wish.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 04:38 UTC

  Malvinas Families Commission founder resigns: he was Army spy (1981/1983)

  

  Hector Cisneros has resigned as president of the Malvinas Families Commission three days after it was revealed by a Buenos Aires newspaper (“Critica”) that he had worked for Argentine military intelligence during the last dictatorship (1976/1983).

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 04:33 UTC

  Gibraltar-Madrid air-bridge in doubt after Spanish airline suspends flights

  

  The future of the air bridge between Gibraltar and Madrid was in doubt following Ándalus Líneas Aéreas suspension last week of all flights in the face of unpaid debts running into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 04:31 UTC

  Bicentennial Regatta largest display of naval tall ships in Punta Arenas

  

  The Bicentennial Regatta arrived over the weekend to Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile after having crossed the Strait of Magellan.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 04:16 UTC

  Mujica meets Lula da Silva to consider bilateral and regional integration

  

  Increasing trade, bilateral and regional integration dominate Monday’s agenda for the meeting in Brasilia between President Lula da Silva and Uruguayan leader Jose Mujica.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 00:31 UTC

  Argentine opposition blasts Nestor Kirchner’s Unasur candidacy

  

  One of the leaders of the Argentine opposition warned that it would be “tragedy for the Americas” if the ex President Néstor Kirchner is designated as General Secretary of the South American Nations Union (Unasur).