Tag: Argentina

Friday, January 7th 2011 - 00:47 UTC
Barcelona: Argentine private medevac plane arrested with 900k on cocaine

Civil Guard officers based at Barcelona’s El Prat Airport have seized almost one ton of cocaine from a private medevac plane which recently landed at the airport, on a flight from Cabo Verde.
Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 22:14 UTC
Argentina reaffirms Malvinas’ sovereignty; blasts UK reluctance to discuss sovereignty

Argentina reaffirmed Monday its “imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands and considers “incomprehensible” the British negative to find a peaceful and definitive solution to the controversy as mandated by the international community.
Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 20:09 UTC
Scarce rainfall forces Uruguay to buy power from Argentina

Uruguay facing a severe drought and insufficient rainfall began this week to receive electricity from the Argentine power grid. Uruguay’s electricity is mainly hydroelectric and in the country’s main dams the water level has been falling dramatically.
Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 18:48 UTC
WikiLeaks Falklands - US concerned about Chavez while UK worried about trade and environmentalists

The American Government kept a close eye on the dispute between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands in 2010. Hitherto secret US State Department communications published by Wikileaks reveal that Secretary of State Hilary Clinton wrote to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires in early 2010, requesting analysis of the situation, which it was felt had been exacerbated by the British approval to search for oil in the seas off the islands, and by a revitalised and bitter diplomatic offensive by the government of President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner.
Wednesday, January 5th 2011 - 00:30 UTC
Argentina: Installation of onboard video cameras begin

The Fisheries Secretariat of the Nation has reported that an Integrated Control System has come into force, which involves the installation of video cameras on board the Argentine fishing fleet.
Tuesday, January 4th 2011 - 14:15 UTC
Argentine Government questions present relevance of 1999 Falklands Agreement with Britain

The Argentine Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that the “provisional understandings” signed by London and Buenos Aires were in complete disuse and that the “unilateral actions of the United Kingdom” with regard to oil exploration and military exercises on the Islands constituted an “unsolveable obstacle” to the continuation and development of the “bilateral cooperation”
Wednesday, December 29th 2010 - 20:25 UTC
Britain should leave the United Nations Security Council suggests Argentine Ambassador

In his response to the British Prime Minister’s Christmas address to the Falkland Islanders, Argentina’s Ambassador at the United Nations, Jorge Arguello, makes the strong suggestion that Britain should lose its place on the UN’s Security Council.
Tuesday, December 28th 2010 - 11:59 UTC
Argentina rejects Cameron’s refusal to negotiate over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands

The Argentine Government yesterday rejected recent declarations of the British Prime Minister David Cameron who said that he would not negotiate over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands despite insistent claims from the South American country.
Monday, December 27th 2010 - 08:28 UTC
Iguazu Falls will complete a record year of visitors

Over a million tourists (1.064.731) had visited until Christmas Argentina’s Iguazu Falls national park, a number which should reach 1.2 million when the 2010 calendar year is completed according to Iguazu Argentina that have the park’s concession.
Friday, December 24th 2010 - 07:47 UTC
Argentina’s November industrial production up 8.8%, says private index

Argentina's industrial production in November continued to grow at record levels, with output jumping 8.8% on the year, according to the monthly index published by local think tank Fiel on Thursday.