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Montevideo, December 20th 2025 - 03:03 UTC

Argentina

  • Tuesday, November 18th 2025 - 10:34 UTC

    Argentina launches “Paraná Plan” to target Waterway crime

    The plan’s primary objectives include dismantling organized crime networks and strengthening controls on the northern river border

    The Argentine Government has launched the “Paraná Plan,” a major interagency initiative designed to curb federal crimes and reinforce border security along the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway, a vital trade route increasingly exploited by transnational criminal organizations.

  • Monday, November 17th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Maybe Argentina-US deal is ”an advantage,” says Orsi

    “You have to open up,” Orsi highlighted

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi pointed out that the recently announced Reciprocal Trade and Investment Framework between Argentina and the United States placed his country in a position where it is “best to be attentive, maybe it's an advantage.”

  • Saturday, November 15th 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    Argentina-US deal shakes up Uruguay

    “We don't have to take any position,” Lubetkin said

    The recent announcement by Washington and Buenos Aires of a joint trade agreement has generated controversy in Montevideo, where it is perceived as a violation of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) rules, so the government of President Yamandú Orsi will monitor the case closely.

  • Friday, November 14th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    US and Argentina set framework for reciprocal trade and investment agreement

    Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to celebrate the agreement

    Presidents Donald J. Trump (United States) and Javier Milei (Argentina) announced on Thursday a “Framework for a Reciprocal Trade and Investment Agreement,” reaffirming a strategic alliance based on shared democratic values and a commitment to free enterprise and open markets.

  • Friday, November 14th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    Former Argentine minister incarcerated in train crash case

    De Vido's request for house arrest is to be ruled upon in the coming days

    Julio De Vido, Argentina’s former Federal Planning Minister under the Kirchner administrations, was formally detained Thursday at the Comodoro Py courthouse to begin serving a four-year prison sentence for his role in the 2012 Once train disaster.

  • Friday, November 14th 2025 - 10:36 UTC

    Yacyretá: Construction resumes at Aña Cuá arm

    Costs have increased sharply after the original estimates in 2019

    Paraguay and Argentina officially restarted construction Thursday on the Aña Cuá arm of the Yacyretá-Apipe hydroelectric dam, ending a two-year paralysis caused by financial disputes.

  • Thursday, November 13th 2025 - 20:42 UTC

    Trump pardons Lewis in insider trading case

    The 88-year-old entrepreneur has various businesses in Argentine Patagonia

    British billionaire Joe Lewis, who has significant business interests in Argentine Patagonia and other parts of South America, has been granted an official pardon by US President Donald Trump, it was confirmed Thursday. The measure came after Lewis, 88, pleaded guilty last year in New York to insider trading charges. He was subsequently sentenced to pay a US$5 million fine and serve three years of probation.

  • Thursday, November 13th 2025 - 14:07 UTC

    UNICEF report on hardships facing Argentine households released

    The UNICEF survey noted a reduction in households unable to seek dental treatments

    Three out of every ten households with children and adolescents in Argentina are unable to cover their monthly expenses, according to the ninth “Rapid Survey” conducted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in August released this week.

  • Thursday, November 13th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    After violent storms, Brazil faces ongoing cyclone threat — severe weather also forecast in Argentina

    A cyclone is a vast area of low atmospheric pressure that can span thousands of kilometers

    Following a powerful extratropical cyclone that swept across south-central Brazil last week —bringing heavy storms and a tornado that devastated parts of Paraná and Santa Catarina— meteorologists are warning that the country faces a continued risk of similar weather events through the end of the year.

  • Wednesday, November 12th 2025 - 20:12 UTC

    Argentina: Indec says inflation in October climbs 2.3%

    Caputo highlighted the 18 consecutive months of deceleration

    Argentina's Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 2.3% in October, accelerating from the 2.1% recorded in September, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) reported Wednesday. The new data brings the total accumulated inflation for the first ten months of 2025 to 24.8%. The year-on-year inflation rate climbed to 31.3%.