Tag: Argentina

• Monday, January 26th 2015 - 07:34 UTC

  Full support for Argentina's Malvinas claim pledges new Uruguay government

  

  Uruguay's next ambassador to Argentina Hector Lescano said that bilateral relations have always been 'cordial', even in difficult times, and there is no doubt that when president-elect Tabare Vazquez takes office, Uruguay's full support to Argentina's claims over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands will be maintained.

• Saturday, January 24th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community wants a 'Day of national mourning', for the burial of Nisman

  

  The head of Argentina's DAIA Jewish community organization Julio Schlosser has urged for the day of Alberto Nisman's burial to be an official “day of national mourning”, in tribute to the late prosecutor who was found dead this week.

• Saturday, January 24th 2015 - 06:26 UTC

  US government and Congress call for a “complete and impartial” investigation into the death of Nisman

  

  The US government has called for a “complete and impartial” investigation on the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who had accused President Cristina Fernandez of covering up the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community centre.

• Friday, January 23rd 2015 - 06:51 UTC

  Nisman's death not suicide but a plot against her government, alleges Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Thursday morning took to social media once again to express her thoughts on the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman making reference to “the suicide which -I am sure- was not a suicide.”

• Friday, January 23rd 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Falklands departing flight delayed: bullets confiscated from Rio Gallegos pax

  

  The scheduled Saturday LAN flight, LA992 departing from Mount Pleasant Airport in the Falkland Islands to Chile with a call in Argentina, was delayed for an hour and a half after a total of fourteen live rounds and 95 empty casings were found in the hold and hand luggage of several passengers.

• Friday, January 23rd 2015 - 06:03 UTC

  US Ambassador Mamet presents credentials and meets with Timerman

  

  US ambassador to Argentina Noah B. Mamet held his first meeting with Foreign Minister Hector Timerman at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday afternoon after he arrived in Buenos Aires on Friday of last week.

• Thursday, January 22nd 2015 - 07:23 UTC

  A third passage to Nisman's apartment and a locksmith who testified the service entrance was not locked

  

  Investigators found a footprint and a fingerprint in a third –recently discovered- access to prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s apartment, which became the latest clues in the investigation of the death of the AMIA special prosecutor late on Sunday.

• Thursday, January 22nd 2015 - 07:17 UTC

  Suspicious death in Argentina by The New York Times editorial board

  

  The following editorial was published on Wednesday by The New York Times addressing recent events surrounding the mysterious death in Buenos Aires of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the still unsolved case of the July 1994 attack on the Argentine Jewish community center, AMIA. He had been involved in the case for ten years and investigating an alleged Iranian connection.

• Thursday, January 22nd 2015 - 05:52 UTC

  Argentina's economy forecasted to contract 1.5% this year, says IMF

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that Argentina's economy will contract by 1.3% in 2015, a figure smaller than original estimates, as the organization revised its world projections to reflect tumbling oil prices.

• Wednesday, January 21st 2015 - 07:49 UTC

  AMIA/Nisman: a situation of unpredictable consequences, says Rosendo Fraga

  

  The death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman puts Argentina in a situation of unforeseeable outcome in which converge foreign policy, institutional functioning and local politics, according to Rosendo Fraga one of the country's most respected political analysts.