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Montevideo, April 29th 2026 - 18:14 UTC

Argentina

  • Thursday, April 16th 2026 - 00:55 UTC

    Logistics corridor to Falklands via Uruguay: former Kirchnerist diplomat denounces untracked flight

    According to a source close to the Islands' administration who spoke with MercoPress, many of these flights are medical evacuations of Falkland Islanders

    A Royal Air Force (RAF) Airbus A400M Atlas transport aircraft operated on April 12 between Mount Pleasant base in the Falkland Islands and Carrasco airport in Montevideo, switching off its transponder during the return leg to the islands, rendering it invisible to civilian tracking systems, according to the specialized outlet Escenario Mundial, which identified the aircraft as registration ZM413 operating flights RRR4000 (outbound) and RRR4001 (return).

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 22:10 UTC

    IMF approves second review of Argentina program, unlocking US$1 billion disbursement

    Argentina is the IMF's largest debtor. Its obligations to the Fund exceed $57 billion, accounting for 34.5% of the institution's outstanding loans, and grew 36% over the past twelve months

    The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday reached a staff-level agreement with Argentina on the second review of the country's extended fund facility, clearing the way for a disbursement of approximately $1 billion pending approval by the Fund's executive board. With this tranche, Argentina will have received roughly $15 billion of the $20 billion agreed in April 2025, Reuters reported.

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 10:23 UTC

    Milei blames opposition and Iran war for 3.4% inflation and calls for patience

    Milei called on citizens to be “patient” and rejected proposals to ease monetary policy

    Argentine President Javier Milei devoted his speech on Tuesday at the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) summit to addressing the March inflation figure released hours earlier by statistics agency INDEC: a monthly 3.4%, the highest reading in a year and the tenth consecutive month of acceleration since the 1.5% recorded in May 2025.

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2026 - 01:39 UTC

    Argentina awaits year's highest inflation reading as Caputo bets on “best 18 months”

    The Central Bank's latest Market Expectations Survey (REM) yielded an average of 3%, though the top ten ranked analysts estimated 3.1%

    Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo said on Monday that March inflation will exceed 3%, which would make it the highest monthly reading of 2026, hours before the national statistics agency INDEC is scheduled to release the Consumer Price Index on Tuesday, April 14, at 4:00 p.m.

  • Monday, April 13th 2026 - 21:55 UTC

    Adorni case: two police officers confirm US$100,000 cash loan before court

    The investigation is focused on tracing the money trail

    Graciela Molina and Victoria Cancio, mother and daughter, testified for nearly three hours on Monday before federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita at the Comodoro Py courthouse as witnesses in the alleged illicit enrichment case against Argentine Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni. Both confirmed they provided a US$100,000 cash loan to the official and that he still owes US$70,000, due in November 2026, according to judicial sources cited by Infobae.

  • Sunday, April 12th 2026 - 13:18 UTC

    Adorni scandal drags down Milei's poll numbers as courts probe his assets

    Despite the numbers, President Javier Milei and his sister Karina, the presidency's secretary-general, have stood firmly behind the Cabinet chief

    Argentine Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni has been formally charged with alleged illicit enrichment in a case investigating a reported 500% increase in his declared assets over a single fiscal period, according to a complaint filed by lawmaker Marcela Pagano. On April 9, federal judge Ariel Lijo ordered the lifting of banking and tax secrecy for Adorni and his wife, Bettina Angeletti, at the request of prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita.

  • Saturday, April 11th 2026 - 04:49 UTC

    Argentine court orders environmental studies over HIF plant in Uruguay

    HIF Global's project envisions the production of approximately 880,000 metric tons per year of synthetic fuels from green hydrogen about three kilometers from the Argentine shore at Colón

    A federal court in the Argentine city of Concepción del Uruguay on Friday ordered a series of environmental studies and requested information from Uruguayan agencies after accepting a lawsuit against the Uruguayan state and multinational HIF Global over a green hydrogen plant project in Paysandú, in a new source of bilateral tension that echoes the Botnia pulp mill conflict of the early 2000s.

  • Friday, April 10th 2026 - 17:54 UTC

    Argentina permanently revokes licenses of laboratories implicated in contaminated fentanyl case

    Anmat stated that the evidence gathered “creates a sufficiently founded basis to conclude that the quality controls of the firms lacked efficacy, safety and quality”

    Argentina's National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Devices (Anmat) permanently revoked the operating licenses of laboratories HLB Pharma and Laboratorios Ramallo, linked to the production of contaminated fentanyl that caused the deaths of at least 111 people between late 2024 and the first half of 2025, in one of the worst health tragedies in the country's recent history.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2026 - 23:57 UTC

    Argentina approves glacier law reform, opens previously protected areas to mining

    The new law amends Law 26,639, in force since 2010, and introduces a fundamental shift: only glaciers that serve a “proven hydrological function” will retain full protection

    Argentina's Chamber of Deputies passed a reform of the National Glacier Law in the early hours of Thursday, an initiative pushed by President Javier Milei's government that reduces the scope of environmental protections in the Andean cordillera and opens previously restricted areas to mining. The vote was 137 in favor, 111 against and 3 abstentions, after more than eleven hours of debate in a special session. The bill had already been approved by the Senate.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2026 - 07:40 UTC

    Uruguay considers relocating HIF Global's green hydrogen megaplant to ease tensions with Argentina

    Government sources within the Orsi administration expressed confidence that a deal will be reached but rejected any suggestion of “giving away” energy or subsidizing the company's business model

    Uruguay's government is considering relocating within the department of Paysandú the synthetic fuels plant planned by multinational HIF Global, in an effort to simultaneously defuse diplomatic tensions with Argentina and advance what would be the largest private investment in the country's history, estimated at $5.385 billion in its final phase.