Tag: Agustin Rossi

• Tuesday, February 18th 2014 - 20:50 UTC

  Drug-trafficking controversy in Argentina involves several ministers

  

  As the debate over drug-trafficking in Argentina heats up, a leading official from the government of President Cristina Fernandez Security has said he supports Uruguay’s decriminalizing model that recently legalized the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana.

• Monday, December 23rd 2013 - 13:27 UTC

  Argentina successfully launches rocket; “program to recover defense capabilities”

  

  Argentina successfully launched a research rocket as part of its space program, the Defense Ministry said on Friday. The launch took place on Wednesday from Chamical, in La Rioja province, 880 km northwest of the capital.

• Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 22:36 UTC

  Argentina again contracts Russian vessels and choppers for the Antarctic 2013/2014 season

  

  Argentina has again contracted Russian polar vessel “Vasily Golovnin” for the supply of its Antarctica bases and stations this coming summer season. The 24.4 million dollars package also includes ice-breaker 'Dranitsyn' and two heavy load helicopters Kamov KA32 which will making most the hardest work in the extreme south outposts

• Friday, November 22nd 2013 - 20:34 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil coordinating cyber-defense in the framework of Unasur

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Agustín Rossi met his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim and agreed to incorporate all South American countries in their bilateral treaty on cyber-defense. The decision was made after several reports indicated the United States engaged in espionage activities against the countries in the region.

• Monday, November 11th 2013 - 15:31 UTC

  Argentina pledges full access to secret minutes from the 1976/83 military dictatorship

  

  Argentina's Defense minister Agustín Rossi said that secret minutes dating back to the military dictatorship of 1976-83 will be available for the public to read and study, while admitting that he did not know why the documents had not been discovered previously.

• Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 08:19 UTC

  Last Argentine military Junta had plans to remain in power until 2000

  

  Neatly kept and organized documents dating to the start of Argentina’s last dictatorship, 1976/1983, shows the names of activists who went missing and citizens blacklisted under the regime, officials announced in Buenos Aires. The documents also show that the military junta had planned to hold onto power until 2000.

• Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 07:24 UTC

  Argentina steps down from major air exercise in Brazil fearing repeat of flagship Libertad incident

  

  Argentina admitted that it stepped down at last minute from participating in South America's largest military air exercise in Brazil, Cruzex 2013 to avoid any possible injunction situations as that experienced by the Navy's three mast frigate that ended retained in a port of Ghana.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2013 - 07:38 UTC

  Argentina finds archives belonging to the military dictatorship

  

  Argentina Defense Minister Agustín Rossi announced on Monday the finding of a vast quantity of archives belonging to the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976-83, including minutes that document 280 secret meetings held by the Armed Forces in those crucial years.

• Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 19:30 UTC

  Chinese navy vessels call in Buenos Aires for the first time part of a South American tour

  

  Vessels from China's Popular Liberation Navy docked for the first time in Buenos Aires in the framework of a South American tour that includes Chile and Brazil. The lead ship is destroyer Lanzhou with missile capability, the frigate Liuzhou and the support vessel Boyanghou, all active with the China's South Sea Fleet.

• Friday, October 25th 2013 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentina will deploy 91.000 security officers for Sunday's election

  

  Ahead of Argentina's midterm elections of next Sunday, 27 October, which have not been absent of acts of violence against candidates and militants, the Defense Minister has announced that more than 91,000 security officers will be deployed across the country's 24 districts to watch over polling day.