Tag: Argentina

• Wednesday, March 28th 2012 - 00:32 UTC

  UK accuses Argentina of “rattling cages” regarding nuclear submarines in Falklands

  

  Britain has denied sending a nuclear-armed submarine to the South Atlantic amid rising tensions with Argentina over the Falklands and accused Argentina of “rattling cages in any way they can”.

• Tuesday, March 27th 2012 - 12:11 UTC

  Import barriers and inflation change Argentina’s industrial production scenario

  

  Argentina's industrial production fell unexpectedly in February, after 28 consecutive months of expansion, as weaker demand from Brazil hit the key automobile sector. Industrial output fell 0.8% from February 2011 and slid 1.4% from the previous month, said Indec.

• Tuesday, March 27th 2012 - 11:25 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez to lead main Malvinas war commemoration from Ushuaia

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez will head next 2 April the main ceremony remembering the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas war when Argentine forces invaded the Falklands and held them for 74 days until ousted by a British Task Force

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 09:36 UTC

  Peruvian president joins the controversy on the turning back of HMS Montrose

  

  Peruvian president Ollanta Humala supported Foreign Affairs minister Rafael Roncagliolo following the impasse with the British embassy in Lima that strongly criticized the last minute cancelling of the protocol visit of HMS Montrose to El Callao.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 08:59 UTC

  Printing money does not lead to inflation, argues Argentine central bank president

  

  The president of Argentina’s Central Bank (BCRA), Mercedes Marcó del Pont, stressed the importance of the recently approved bank’s charter reform and denied that printing currency leads to the creation of an inflationary state “since inflation is rooted in other causes”.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina to raise oil export price to 63 dollars per barrel from the current 42

  

  Argentina’s Energy Secretary Daniel Cameron will propose that oil prices for export be raised to 63 dollars per barrel from the current 42 dollars, the Argentine newspaper La Nacion reported Sunday on its website.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 08:18 UTC

  Argentine province of Salta joins the pack and revokes YPF oil concessions

  

  As was anticipated yet another Argentine province, Salta, announced Sunday its decision to revoke a concession from Spanish held oil company YPF. The governor from the north-west province of Salta, Juan Manuel Uturbey, and a close ally of President Cristina Fernandez, announced his decision to revoke oil company YPF concession of the Tartagal Oeste area and his intention to include it in a list of areas that will be put out to tender.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 08:15 UTC

  Legal actions against Argentine officers who tortured conscripts during Malvinas war

  

  The Buenos Aires Provincial Memory Commission, CMP, will present on Monday an appeal to the Argentine Supreme Court demanding that tortures and other ill treatments suffered by the Argentine conscripts during the Malvinas war by their own officers be considered ‘crimes against humanity’ and therefore imprescriptible.

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 11:07 UTC

  The other side of the Rattenbach report on Malvinas war praises Argentine forces

  

  The Rattenbach report on the performance of the Argentine armed forces during the 1982 invasion followed by the Malvinas war has been officially de-classified and Rosendo Fraga, an outstanding Argentine historian and political analyst reveals some details, which contrary to popular belief, far from condemning praise the performance of Argentine forces.

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentina begins legal actions against oil companies operating in the Falklands

  

  The Argentine Government announced on Saturday it had begun the legal proceedings put together with the AFIP tax agency against five British oil companies, accusing them of “carrying out illegal operations” in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.