Argentina

Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 10:39 UTC
Tierra del Fuego students competition on Malvinas issues

High School students from Ushuaia, capital of the Argentine southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego were invited to participate in a competition, “Asking about Malvinas”. The competition to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas war was sponsored by the city's program “Young Ushuaia”, and the provincial Youth Coordination office from the Culture and Education ministry.
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Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 10:08 UTC
Buenos Aires high schools seized by protesting students

High-school students in Buenos Aires have taken over 11 of the city's public schools in demand of changes in the curricula and citing “political persecution.”
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Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Monkeypox has reached Tierra del Fuego and Magallanes Region

Monkeypox has reached Tierra del Fuego and Magallanes Region in Chile. Tierra del Fuego province head of Epidemiology Office confirmed three cases in Ushuaia, one in Rio Grande and four more suspects. On the other side apparently a case has been reported in Puerto Natales, a woman who recently visited neighboring Argentina, while Chilean authorities announced that the country has enough vaccines to begin inoculation in October.
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Wednesday, September 28th 2022 - 17:53 UTC
Mapuche violence escalates in Argentine Patagonia

As Mapuche violence escalates in the Villa Mascardi area in the Department of Bariloche in the Argentine Patagonia province of Río Negro, former Security Minister and current PRO Chairwoman Patricia Bullrich Wednesday said fugitive rebel Facundo Jones-Huala was hiding there.
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Wednesday, September 28th 2022 - 17:30 UTC
Argentine beef exports grow but demand from China takes downward path

Argentine beef exports have grown interannually but demand from China is 20% lower than in July and decreasing, with a marked downward trend in prices, according to a report from the Argentine Beef Exporters (ABC) Consortium in Buenos Aires.
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Wednesday, September 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Argentine judge releases 14 crewmembers of Emtrasur's 747

A federal judge in Argentina has dismissed all charges against 14 of the 19 crew members of the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 freighter aircraft seized at Buenos Aires Ezeiza international airport. They were all given their passports back and cleared to leave the country at will.
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Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 21:36 UTC
Mar del Plata sex workers oppose relocation of red-light zones

Sexual workers in the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata do not agree to abide by the new red-light zone created earlier this month, causing an uproar among locals who do not want them around their residential areas.
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Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 21:33 UTC
Several flights in Argentina grounded due to strike

Union protests kept the ARA Libertad from docking on time, union measures halted tire production, and labor measures led to either the cancelation or postponement of several flights Tuesday at Buenos Aires' two airports, as well as in other air terminals nationwide.
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Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 10:00 UTC
Argentina's economic activity grows 5.6% YoY in July

Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) Monday released a report according to which the country's economic activity grew 5.6% interannually in July.
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Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 09:59 UTC
Argentine President's son stalker to take courses on sexual diversity

An Argentine man in the province of La Pampa will have to take courses on sexual diversity after threatening President Alberto Fernánddez's son last year on social media, as per a plea deal between the plaintiff and the defendant's legal teams announced Monday in Buenos Aires.
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