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Montevideo, August 23rd 2025 - 11:48 UTC

Argentina

  • Monday, June 30th 2025 - 09:33 UTC

    Argentina: Danish diplomat says F-16s are fully equipped

    “We are upgrading the F-16 aircraft with the latest technology,” Ambassador Eva Bisgaard Pedersen said

    Denmark's concurrent Ambassador to Brazil and Argentina discussed in an interview with DEF Magazine the recent purchase by Buenos Aires of 24 second-hand US-built F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft in April 2024, which are yet to be delivered. Argentina needs to modernize its air might since the 2015 decommissioning of French-built Dassault Mirage aircraft.

  • Saturday, June 28th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    OAS passes unanimous declaration favoring Argentina's stance regarding Falklands/Malvinas

    OAS Secretary-General Albert Ramdin said Argentina's sovereignty must be recognized

    The Organization of American States (OAS) unanimously adopted a declaration during its General Assembly in Antigua and Barbuda, supporting Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, South Georgia, and South Sandwich Islands.

  • Saturday, June 28th 2025 - 10:39 UTC

    IMF team rounds up mission to Argentina

    The results were not disclosed

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded a four-day technical mission in Buenos Aires to review Argentina’s compliance with a new US$20 billion agreement signed in mid-April 2025, it was announced Friday in Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, June 28th 2025 - 10:23 UTC

    Milei calls Kicillof a “eunuch donkey”

    The president also said the Governor of Buenos Aires was “Stalin's chick”

    Argentine President Javier Milei launched the electoral campaign for his party, La Libertad Avanza (LLA), in the province of Buenos Aires ahead of local elections on September 7, 2025. During a party congress in La Plata, Milei harshly criticized Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof, a Peronist, calling him “Stalin's chick” and a “eunuch donkey.”

  • Saturday, June 28th 2025 - 09:36 UTC

    Brazil's ANAC imposes heavy sanction on Aerolíneas Argentinas

    Aerolíneas Argentinas' flights to and from Brazil will remain unaffected since the sanction is not related to safety problems

    Brazil's National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) imposed a provisional administrative measure against Aerolíneas Argentinas this week, banning the neighboring country's flag carrier from establishing new operating bases in Brazil and increasing flight frequencies at Brasília, Galeão, Salvador, Curitiba, and Florianópolis.

  • Friday, June 27th 2025 - 19:34 UTC

    CFK claims Milei's model is on the brink of collapse

    Half of Argentines are falling into debt just to eat, CFK argued from her house arrest

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) said in an audio recording from her house arrest played during the bank workers' La Bancaria union’s National Congress that President Javier Milei’s economic model was “unsustainable” and “on the verge of collapse.”

  • Friday, June 27th 2025 - 10:57 UTC

    Argentina: In absentia trial of AMIA bombing suspects to proceed

    The Iranian defendants may still appeal Rafecas' ruling

    Buenos Aires Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas ordered a trial in absentia for ten Iranians suspected of being involved in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association's (AMIA) headquarters in the Argentine capital, killing 85 people and injuring over 150. The attack has been deemed a crime against humanity, falling under the Rome Statute.

  • Friday, June 27th 2025 - 10:02 UTC

    Uruguayan La Libertad Avanza fails to overcome first hurdle

    Montevideo's Electoral Court discarded many of the alleged endorsements over repetitions and irregularities

    The Uruguayan version of Argentine President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) failed to secure the 1,350 valid signatures required by Uruguay's Electoral Court to register as a political party, particularly after many signatures were ruled unacceptable. The group, led by Nicolás Quintana, has 20 days to gather additional signatures.

  • Friday, June 27th 2025 - 08:30 UTC

    Argentine music legend Lalo Schifrin dies aged 93

    Schifrin was best known for his Mission: Impossible score, but authored dozens of other hits

    Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin, who authored the iconic Mission: Impossible theme and other film and TV scores, including Dirty Harry, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, Voyage of the Damned, The Amityville Horror, The Sting II, and Mannix, died Thursday from pneumonia complications in Los Angeles, aged 93.

  • Wednesday, June 25th 2025 - 19:54 UTC

    Argentina: Milei to suppress Civil Servants' Day off

    This measure is in line with this Government's conception of the State, Adorni explained

    The Argentine Government of President Javier Milei will be suppressing the June 27 Civil Servant Day off for the people of the sector, Spokesman Manuel Adorni announced Wednesday.