A 24-hour strike by Chilean border control agencies totally shut down the main border crossing between Argentina and Chile Wednesday, Argentina's National Roads & Highway Bureau (DNV) said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday voiced his sadness at the loss of life and the damage to homes and infrastructure in Argentina as a result of torrential floods.
The islanders of Malvinas, known as the Falklands in Britain, on Monday voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to keep the disputed territory under British rule.
Argentina's Foreign Ministry on Sunday condemned what it called "the military threats of British Prime Minister David Cameron in relation to Great Britain's illegal occupation of the Malvinas Islands for the past 180 years."