Argentina presents UK with plan to resume flights
Apr 24th
Argentina’s Ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro officially presented today Argentina’s proposal to establish Aerolíneas Argentinas airline regular flights to the Malvinas Islands, during a meeting with UK’s Minister of State Jeremy Browne in London.
Likewise, Castro presented a project aimed to the South Atlantic fish conservation, and resume negotiations in order to re-discuss the South Atlantic Fishing Commission’s terms and conditions. According to an offcial communiqué, the Argentine proposal to resume direct flights between Argentina’s main land and the archipelago “marks an opportunity to enhance the islanders’ quality of life and their communications capabilities.”
Argentina’s oil takeover riles investors
Apr 17th
Argentina’s takeover of its top energy company from Spain’s Repsol might solve the country’s short-term energy needs, and it thrills Argentines who blame privatizations for their economy’s collapse a decade ago. But analysts say it sends a terrible signal to anyone wanting to invest in Argentina.
President Cristina Fernandez made Spain furious by decreeing that her government will recover YPF by expropriating Repsol’s majority stake in the company.
Argentina beats Croatia to play in Davis Cup semifinals
Apr 10th
Argentinean tennis player Juan Martin del Potro, ranked 10th worldwide, crushed Croatia’s Marin Cilic, ranked 23rd, 6-1, 6-2 and 6-1 at Parque Roca’s outdoor clay courts in Buenos Aires to end the three-day quarterfinal. The duel began Friday at Mary Teran de Weiss stadium, which was packed with 14,500 spectators on each of the three days.
In the men’s singles, Juan Monaco (ranked 16th) beat Antonio Veic (150) with a double 6-1 to close the series 4-1. On Saturday, Cilic beat David Nalbandian (50) 5-7, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (2) and 6-3 in doubles that lasted more than five hours.
Argentina oil firm YPF stock dives
Apr 3rd
Shares in Argentina’s biggest energy company, YPF (YPFD.BA), tumbled on Tuesday due to growing investor fear over a possible government plan to seize control of the oil firm.
YPF, controlled by Spanish oil major Repsol (REP.MC), has seen its market value fall by about 25 percent so far this year and its stock was down 16 percent in midday trade in Buenos Aires, hitting its lowest level since July 2009.
Argentina to ask Mexico to overhaul auto trade pact
Mar 20th
Argentina will ask Mexico to renegotiate a bilateral trade accord on the automobile industry, following Brazil’s lead as it seeks to improve its trade balance, the government said on Tuesday.
Argentina’s center-left government has tightened controls on imports and foreign-exchange purchases in recent months to bolster its waning trade surplus, which is key to boosting international reserves used to pay debt.
Argentina allows abortion for rape victims
Mar 13th
In a ruling that will set a legal precedent in socially conservative Argentina, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decriminalised abortion for all rape victims, though abortion on demand remains illegal and a taboo issue.
The unanimous ruling, which upholds a 2010 decision by the highest court in the southern province of Chubut involving a 15-year-old girl, clarifies a murky clause in the penal code dating back to 1922 that was widely interpreted to mean that only rape victims who it said were “idiot” or “demented” could have abortions.
Ice dam collapses at Argentine glacier
Mar 6th
Tourists look at the Perito Moreno glacier after the rupture of a massive ice wall near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, southern Argentina, Mar 4, 2012. The glacier, a massive tongue of ice in the Santa Cruz province that covers 250 square kilometres (97 square miles), advances yearly into a lake, known as Lago Argentino. As Perito Moreno moves forward, it cuts off a river feeding the lake. Water builds up pressure and slowly undermines the ice, forming a tunnel until ice comes tumbling down. The phenomenon repeats itself at irregular intervals, with the last major ice falls occurring in 2008.
Argentina audits trains after crash killed 51
Feb 28th
Argentina’s government announced Tuesday it is sending government auditors to monitor the commuter rail company whose train crashed last week, killing 51 people and injuring 703. The auditors are supposed to oversee every aspect of the Trains of Buenos Aires, opening the books and checking the machines to guarantee the security of passengers and the continuity of service.
The transportation and planning ministers said that the intervention will last at least 15 days, or however long it takes for a criminal investigation to determine responsibility for the crash.
Argentina to woo Scotland over Malvinas
Feb 21st
President Cristina Kirchner is reportedly considering to send a delegation of officials to Scotland in order to attend the celebration of the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, marking the victory of Robert the Bruce over the English in 1314. More >
Sean backs Argentina over Falkland Islands
Feb 14th
The actor Sean Penn has weighed into the Falklands dispute, urging Britain to join UN-sponsored talks over what he called “the Malvinas Islands of Argentina”.
Penn met Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in Buenos Aires and said: “It’s necessary that these diplomatic talks happen between the United Kingdom and Argentina. I think that the world today is not going to tolerate any kind of ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology.”
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