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Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. Vice President Amado Boudou said that the United Kingdom is trying to “hide” domestic problems like unemployment and social unrest, as well as Scottish separatism, through “brags that constitute issues of high media impact”, regarding the situation in the Malvinas Islands, as informed by Télam on Friday.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. President Cristina Fernández held a telephone conversation yesterday with her Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez, who called to ratify his country’s solidarity with Argentina regarding the claim of sovereignty on the Malvinas Islands.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide issued an order of arrest against former Peruvian military President Francisco Morales Bermúdez, and also decreed the prosecution of former President Jorge Videla and former Interior Minister Albano Harguindeguy, in a case of illegal arrest of Peruvian citizens brought to Argentina.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. The Spanish former owners of Aerolíneas Argentinas flag carrier, Gerardo Díaz Ferrán and Gonzalo Pascual, were prosecuted on Friday over the continued crime of undue appropriation of EUR 4.4 million from Viajes Marsans Group which went bankrupt in mid 2010.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. The head of Pensions Office Anses, Diego Bossio, has remarked that Argentina is the country with "the largest coverage in Latin America", during a meeting with pensioners and the Mayor of the town of Tres de Febrero, Hugo Curto.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. The Argentine Government and the Brazilian industrials described as "very positive" the meeting they held on Thursday to deepen the bilateral trade relationship.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. The fresh water shared by Argentina and Paraguay, source of life and energy, as well as the biological and cultural diversity, are the greater potentials of both countries who face the challenge of changing the matrix based on farming production for export, stated Paraguay’s Environment Minister, Oscar Rivas.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. Justice and Human Rights Minister, Julio Alak, received the President of the Jewish Community Center AMIA, Guillermo Borger. Both officials analyzed the procedural stage of the cause that investigates the responsibilities of the terrorist attack against the Jewish institution in 1994, when 85 people were killed and hundreds were wounded. 

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. The members of the Farming Emergency Committee have coincided in giving priority to small scale producers when aiding the sectors affected by the drought. The priority was agreed on during a new meeting of the Committee which took place on Thursday morning at the Agriculture Ministry.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. Martín García, President of Télam news agency, headed the annual assembly of “Voz e Imagen del Sur” cooperative and stated that at the present stage of Argentina, “solidarity is the blood that nourishes the social body”.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. Transports Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi, reported that more than 7,2 million SUBE electronic cards have been distributed  in the metropolitan area to be used in railways, buses, subways and the Premetro services.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 3, 2012. Juan Mónaco is to face Spanish Albert Montañez, while his countryman Juan Ignacio Chela is to play against Brazilian Joao Souza. For their part, Carlos Berlocq and Federico Delbonis are to face each other, at 2012 ATP Viña del Mar’s quarterfinals.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 2, 2012. President Cristina Fernández announced last night that pensions shall receive next month a 17.62% increase, in the first of the two scheduled annual hikes.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 2, 2012. Vice President Amado Boudou said that Argentina has found, in President Cristina Fernández, “a leader that is much more than a ruler”, something that did not happen since the times of Juan Domingo Perón, as informed on Thursday by Télam.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 2, 2012. Vice President Amado Boudou said on Thursday that the 17.62% increase in pensions as of March shows “the strength of the facts" in reference to the pension mobility law boosted by the Executive Power and compared that figure with that forecast by the opposition who had said “they would not increase it over 4% per year".

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 2, 2012. Venezuela's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed through a press release its "strongest rejection" in the face of the British "acts of provocation and intimidation"in Malvinas and pointed out that "the Argentine Republic is not alone in its legitimate sovereignty claim".

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 2, 2012. President Cristina Fernández phoned Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri last night, to offer him Federal assistance due to the heavy storm that hit the Argentine capital in the last hours.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 2, 2012. Judge Emilio Stadler has prosecuted Susana Freydoz, widow of the shot-dead former Governor of Río Negro, Carlos Soria, for “homicide in the first degree, with the use of a firearm, and aggravated by the marital relationship".

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 2, 2012. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced the Central Bank (BCRA) has set up a register to rate the small companies registered in the provincial guarantee funds, thus boosting credits for them.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. Feb. 2, 2012. Argentine glass-making company Rigolleau announced an investment worth 38 million dollars in a new glass melting furnace and a composition plant.