Tag: Argentina

• Saturday, October 24th 2015 - 08:40 UTC

  Holders of Argentine Euro bonds demands BONY services debt or faces lawsuit

  

  Investors holding euro-denominated Argentine bonds, including billionaire George Soros, called on trustee Bank of New York Mellon yesterday (BONY) to turn over its duties to state-owned Banco Nación so they can get paid the 225 million euros currently frozen by United States District Judge Thomas Griesa’s orders.

• Saturday, October 24th 2015 - 06:50 UTC

  Malvinas veterans deliver letter at UK embassy requesting to identify remains buried in the Falklands

  

  Argentina Malvinas War veterans marched on Friday in Buenos Aires and protested before the UK embassy demanding London collaborates with the identification of the remains of Argentine soldiers buried at the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, October 23rd 2015 - 08:39 UTC

  Judge Griesa rules in favor of 'me too' Argentine bond holders suing for full payment

  

  U.S. judge ruled on Thursday that holders of $234 million in defaulted Argentine bonds suing for full payment had been treated unequally to creditors who had participated in the country's past restructurings.

• Friday, October 23rd 2015 - 07:53 UTC

  Macri will continue as leader of PRO party whatever Sunday's election outcome

  

  Mauricio Macri, Argentina's presidential candidate of the Let’s Change (Cambiemos) opposition coalition said he will continue leading the PRO party whatever the outcome of Sunday’s elections is.

• Friday, October 23rd 2015 - 07:36 UTC

  “We will maintain our Malvinas claim, but relations with UK should be broadened”

  

  Argentina's presidential candidate Mauricio Macri’s top foreign policy adviser Fulvio Pompeo told British newspaper The Telegraph Argentina will take a less aggressive stance over the Malvinas Islands conflict if the Let’s Change candidate wins Sunday general elections.

• Friday, October 23rd 2015 - 07:26 UTC

  Malvinas Islands' claim: Tierra del Fuego is 'absolutely strategic”

  

  Tierra del Fuego is 'absolutely strategic“ for Argentina's foreign policy because of the Malvinas Islands claim question, integration with Chile and the current process of re-industrialization, according to the country's Deputy foreign minister Eduardo Zuain who this week visited Ushuaia to coordinate actions beginning ”next December” when the elected governor Rosana Bertone takes office.

• Friday, October 23rd 2015 - 07:02 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez is falling back, but with great power and plans to return in 2019, says Fraga

  

  President Cristina Fernandez is falling back ahead of Sunday's election, but with great power, and she has the intention of returning to office in the next presidential elections, 2019, said the political analyst and columnist Rosendo Fraga regarding the current political scenario in Argentina. On Sunday Argentines will be electing president, half the Lower House a third of Senate seats, governorships and for the first time Mercosur parliament representatives.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2015 - 19:05 UTC

  Ushuaia cruise season takes off: 331 calls estimated in 2015/16

  

  The 2015/16 cruise season has taken off in Argentine Tierra del Fuego with the arrival on Monday, of 'Ushuaia' and 90 passengers, one of the 331 calls which are estimated according to Ushuaia authorities. Gianfranco Guardamagna head of the Tierra del Fuego Tourism Institute recalled the significance of the cruise industry for Ushuaia, since the austral city “commands 95% of all international Antarctic tourism”.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2015 - 06:30 UTC

  Malvinas veterans to march before UK embassy to demand DNA tests of remains at Darwin cemetery

  

  Malvinas war veterans will march next Friday in downtown Buenos Aires up to the British Embassy to demand that DNA tests of the remains in 123 unidentified graves at the Argentine memorial cemetery in the Falkland Islands be allowed to commence.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2015 - 06:03 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez and Putin exchange praise during a videoconference

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and Russia's Vladimir Putin exchanged praise and compliments during a videoconference on Wednesday marking the 130th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between both nations.