Argentina

Thursday, July 29th 2021 - 09:13 UTC
Gov't officials to run in primary elections need to resign in order to focus on their campaigns, Argentine President warns

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Wednesday warned that government officials who wished to run in the upcoming mandatory primary elections should resign their offices in order to focus on their campaigns.
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Thursday, July 29th 2021 - 08:23 UTC
Ceremony held in Trelew for new anniversary of Welsh landing in Patagonia

Local authorities and descendants of the Welsh community in Argentine Patagonia gathered Wednesday at the city of Trelew for the celebrations marking the 156th anniversary of the beginning of the Welsh feat in Chubut.
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Thursday, July 29th 2021 - 07:32 UTC
Presidents of Argentina, Colombia hold side talk while attending presidential inauguration in Lima

Colombia President Iván Duque Márquez Wednesday praised the current state of bilateral relations with Argentina in a meeting he held with his counterpart from that country, Alberto Fernández, as both leaders were in the Peruvian capital for the inauguration of Pedro Castillo.
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Wednesday, July 28th 2021 - 09:10 UTC
Argentina makes payment to Paris Club, loses reserves to cope with domestic demand of foreign currency

Argentina Tuesday made a payment to the Paris Club which resulted in the country's reserves falling to the US $ 42,837 million, it was reported.
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Monday, July 26th 2021 - 18:05 UTC
Orcas sighted off the coast of Argentine province of Rio Negro

A calf of killer whales only a few days old has been sighted for the first time off the Punta Bermeja area, on the Rio Negro coast, leading specialists to speculate that its parents would not be far away.
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Monday, July 26th 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Lacalle the best, Maduro the worst - says survey of how LatAm Presidents have handled the covid-19 pandemic

Uruguayan President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou was Latin America's best president when it came down to handling the coronavirus pandemic, a study by the international consulting firm Ipsos released over the weekend has shown.
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Monday, July 26th 2021 - 09:49 UTC
A pro-Falklands lawmaker in Argentine congress: not to be dismissed...

An academic respectful of historic events and understanding towards the people of the Falkland Islands sitting in the Argentine congress? That could be the outcome of the scheduled September primaries and midterm elections in November according to some ultra-nationalistic media in Buenos Aires.
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Monday, July 26th 2021 - 08:46 UTC
“State of Hydric Emergency” decreed throughout Argentine provinces within the Parana river basin

Argentina Sunday declared a “water emergency” due to the historic downspout in the Paraná river.
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Monday, July 26th 2021 - 05:08 UTC
Ushuaia encouraged by a promising winter holidays season

It's winter holidays in Argentina and the season is working out to be far better than expected for Ushuaia in the extreme south of the country, with August expectations also on the bright side.
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Monday, July 26th 2021 - 04:57 UTC
Tierra del Fuego promulgates bill banning industrial salmon farming

Three weeks after its approval by the local Legislative council of Tierra del Fuego, extreme south of Argentina, the provincial Executive finally promulgated the bill that bans the growth and farming of salmon species in the provincial sea and lakes jurisdictional waters.
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