Tag: Argentina

• Tuesday, June 5th 2018 - 06:37 UTC

  Argentina identifies remains of the 92nd combatant buried in the Falklands

  

  The Argentine Human Rights Secretary announced on Monday the name of another Argentine soldier fallen during the Falklands conflict and buried at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin, taking the number of identified remains to 92.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  Honoring Falklands' fallen begins full agenda for Macri's cabinet chief in London

  

  Argentine cabinet chief Marcos Peña arrived on Sunday in London for a two-day full agenda beginning Monday, with a round of ministerial meetings, media interviews, a visit to Parliament, a conference, even a visit to 10 Downing Street, but it will all take off at St. Paul's cathedral to honor the fallen in the Falkland Islands war.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  Nisman death was a homicide, rules Argentine federal appeals court

  

  An Argentine federal appeals court confirmed on Friday that special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, found dead in 2015 while investigating a 1994 Jewish center bombing, was murdered.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 09:00 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego insists with a representative in the SW Atlantic Fisheries sub committee

  

  Tierra del Fuego media and Clarin in Buenos Aires coincide that foreign minister Jorge Faurie has admitted the possibility for a representative from the extreme south province to attend the Argentine/UK South West Atlantic Fisheries Scientific Sub Committee meetings, which were recently re-launched at the Argentine capital.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentina delists Malvinas petitioner Betts, and his shady turncoat past begins to surface

  

  Alejandro Jacobo Betts, Argentine citizen, born as Alexander Jacob Betts in the Falkland Islands, where he lived with a family until the end of the 1982 conflict, has been delisted from the Argentine delegation to this year's United Nations Decolonization Committee or C24 meeting scheduled for this month in New York.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 09:01 UTC

  Argentine Senate votes 37 to 30 to freeze utility rates; Macri expected to veto the bill

  

  Following twelve hours of heated and at time acrimonious debate the Argentine Senate on early Thursday voted, 37 to 30, to freeze utility prices. President Mauricio Macri had anticipated that if the bill was passed he would veto it because there is no way the budget can stand an additional 1% of GDP deficit.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentine military to have a greater role in combating drug-trafficking

  

  Argentina’s Armed Forces will soon play a bigger role in the fight against drug-trafficking and terrorism, as the president Mauricio Macri administration looks to assigning new responsibilities to the military in domestic and border security.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 07:47 UTC

  Argentine forensic team identify remains of another combatant buried in the Falklands

  

  The remains of yet another Argentine combatant fallen during the Falklands conflict in 1982, and buried at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin, have been identified bringing the number to 91, out of a total of 121 only a year ago.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 07:11 UTC

  Coca Cola supports Macri with US$ 1.2bn, 2019/2021, investment pledge

  

  Coca-Cola announced it would increase its investments in Argentina over the next three years, giving embottled President Mauricio Macri’s government a boost at a difficult time.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Argentina set to expand fresh beef exports to Japan and China

  

  Argentina is set to expand fresh beef exports to Asia, with Japan and China having already approved import deals, the country's agriculture minister said. Luis Miguel Etchevehere in Tokyo said that Argentina has signed a deal with the Japanese government under which Tokyo will authorize imports of fresh beef from Argentina by late July. His country has also inked a beef export agreement with Beijing.