Argentina's old-school economics

Resource nationalism was supposed to be a throwback, a discredited school of economics that failed the governments that embraced it.

Repsol to sue Argentina over YPF seizure

MADRID (Reuters) - Repsol has started the process to claim more than $10 billion compensation from Argentina for seizing the Spanish oil group's stake in Argentine energy company YPF , in an arbitration case that could drag on for years. Repsol said on Tuesday it had told Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez, of a dispute under the Treaty for Investment Promotion and Protection agreed ...

Exclusive: EU to lodge suit against Argentina with WTO

MADRID (Reuters) - The European Union has agreed to file a trade suit against Argentina's import restrictions with the World Trade Organization (WTO), a senior Spanish government source said on Monday. The suit is not directly linked to Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's decision to seize control of its biggest oil company, YPF, a subsidiary of Spain's Repsol

Argentina river cargo ship sinks

Seven sailors are missing after an Argentine ship and a Paraguayan vessel collide on the River Parana.

Argentina Senate passes 'dignified death' law

Now Argentine families won't have to struggle to find judges to order doctors to end life-support for people who are dying or in a permanent vegetative state.

Argentina drop Falklands video hockey player

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The Argentine hockey player filmed training on the Falkland Islands in a controversial video that caused a furore in Britain last week has been dropped from Argentina's final Olympic Games warm-up event.

EU mulls punishing Argentina over YPF

BUENOS AIRES, May 8 (UPI) -- Argentine government officials are beginning to count the cost of seizing Spanish-owned YPF with more backlash from Europe still to come.

Politically charged ad keeps running in Argentina despite warning by IOC

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine state-run television has again broadcast an ad linking the London Olympics to a dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, opening itself to further criticism from the IOC.

Argentina soccer club honors Martinez

Sergio Martinez, the best fighter in the world not named Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao, today was recognized as an honorary member of the storied Argentine soccer club River Plate.

Argentina's ad about Falklands stirs up controversy

The IOC has denounced an Argentine TV ad that ties the London Olympics to a dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.