Tag: Argentina

Argentine stocks plunge after central banker quits

Washington Examiner · October 2, 2014 9:45 pm

Argentine Congress Fundraises for Hamas

Daniel Halper · October 2, 2014 7:04 pm

Argentina approves law for controlling prices

Almudena Calatrava · September 18, 2014 10:44 pm

Beltway Confidential

Did this 1980s British comedy predict the Mark Sanford scandal?

Becket Adams · September 12, 2014 9:30 pm

Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., in a very, very lengthy Facebook post announced Friday that he is ending his engagement to longtime girlfriend, "soul mate" and ex-mistress Maria Belen Chapur, the woman at the center of the now infamous "Appalachian Trail" scandal that clouded his governorship. (AP/Bruce Smith)

Beltway Confidential

Mark Sanford calls off engagement to Argentine ‘soul mate’

Becket Adams · September 12, 2014 8:48 pm

A photo of Argentine rock star Gustavo Cerati sits atop the coffin containing his body at the Buenos Aires City's Legislature, Argentina, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. Cerati died on Thursday, four years after a stroke put him in a coma and ended the career of one of Latin America's most influential musicians. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Argentine rock star Gustavo Cerati dies

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 3:49 am

In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara works in a lab near vertebrae from a Dreadnaughtus schrani at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The immense dinosaur from Patagonia is slated to be introduced to the scientific community Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. Scientists hope its unusually well-preserved bones will help reveal secrets about some of the largest animals ever to walk the Earth. The four-legged beast with a long neck and tail weighed an estimated 65 tons and stretched about 85 feet long. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Argentine dinosaur may shed light on huge beasts

Malcolm Ritter · September 4, 2014 1:13 pm

Riot police cordon off protesters partially blocking one of Buenos Aires' main access routes over the Riachuelo River in Argentina, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. CTA, a union umbrella group that opposes the government, started a 36-hour strike to demand more jobs, better salaries and tax cuts on salaries. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Labor protest disrupts Argentine capital

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 10:11 pm

FILE - This Dec. 9, 2009 file photo shows a sign for Bank of New York Mellon in New York. Bank of New York Mellon, which has played a central role in the legal dispute that pushed Argentina into default last month, is no longer authorized to operate in the South American country, Argentina's government said Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2014. BNY Mellon has no retail operations in Argentina, so the government's announcement appeared to be part of a plan to remove it as a trustee and work around a U.S. court ruling that triggered a default on July 30. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Argentina says US-based BNY Mellon not welcome

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2014 6:45 pm

Estela de Carlotto, right, president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Argentina's leading human rights group, waves next to Taty Almeida one of the group's grandmothers, as she arrives to announce that tests have identified the granddaughter of one of the group's late founders Alicia Zubasnabar de la Cuadra, In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Zubasnabar de la Cuadra the Grandmothers' first president, died in 2008, her daughter gave birth while a prisoner of the 1976-83 military dictatorship and hasn't been seen since. (AP Poto/Eduardo Di Baia)

Argentina Grandmothers ID 115th ‘dirty war’ child

Washington Examiner · August 23, 2014 12:31 am

Carmine Boccuzzi, center, a lawyer representing Argentina, leaves Federal court after a hearing, in New York, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. Argentina will make its next round of scheduled debt payments, the economy minister said as he defends a new plan to pay creditors locally and avoid the jurisdiction of a U.S. court that forced the country into default last month. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NY judge scolds Argentina, but no contempt order

Larry Neumeister · August 22, 2014 3:42 am

A woman walks with her dog past a mural that reads in Spanish "Vultures" in reference to the dispute between the Argentine government and a U.S. hedge fund, known locally as "vulture funds," in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. The entire graffiti reads "Fatherland or vultures." Argentina's government is proposing to change the way it pays holders of the country's debt, shifting it out of the U.S. financial and legal systems as a way to end the default triggered by a legal battle with U.S. investors. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Argentina defends plan to pay creditors outside US

Almudena Calatrava · August 21, 2014 12:17 am