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Montevideo, December 20th 2025 - 18:57 UTC

Argentina

  • Friday, February 16th 2024 - 11:40 UTC

    Now Argentines do their shopping across the border due to lower prices

    A “blue” dollar exchange rate in Bolivia makes things even more affordable to Argentines in bordering areas

    After little over two months in office, President Javier Milei has managed to reverse a trend whereby people from neighboring countries crossed the border to do their shopping in Argentina. According to reports from the provinces of Misiones and Jujuy, it is now less expensive for Argentines to do it the other way around.

  • Friday, February 16th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

    CFK warns of Argentina's third debt crisis

    CFK also mentioned in a 33-page report the danger of Argentina's foreignization over the control of land, water, and natural resources.

    Former Argentine two-time President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) described Javier Milei as a “showman-economist in the [Casa] Rosada.” In a 33-page document released on St Valentine's Day, CFK also spoke of the incumbent head of state's “failed officials” and warned that dollarizing the country's economy “would mean losing forever the possibility of development.”

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 15:02 UTC

    Argentine Falklands War correspondent appointed head of Malvinas War Directorate in Senate

    ”I had been assigned a censor, an Army captain who when he accompanied me said 'this can be filmed, this can't', (…) The things he didn't like he would force me to erase them,” Kasanzew said.

    Argentina's Vice-President Victoria Villarruel has named Nicolás Kasanzew, the sole Argentine journalist who covered the entire Falklands War conflict in 1982, as head of the Malvinas War Directorate in the Senate of the South American country. Villarruel, daughter of a former combatant, made the announcement via social media.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 12:24 UTC

    Illex Squid: correlation between abundance and sea surface temperatures; Taiwanese experience 1998/2018

    The fishing ground mainly extended from 34°S to 55°S and from 50°W to 70°W, approximately covered distributional range of the Argentine shortfin squid Illex

    ScienceDirect (*) site has published a most interesting study on fishing trends, particularly on the Illex Argentines in the Southwest Atlantic, based on squid catches calculated from daily logbooks recorded by the Taiwanese squid-jigging vessels from 1998 to 2018 across the open sea east of Argentina and north of the exclusive economic zones of the Falkland Islands in the Southwest Atlantic, which was a quality-controlled compilation of regional fisheries data.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 12:14 UTC

    The magic of football: for China Falklands are British and no longer Argentine

    The Beijing Football Association reacted to the alleged sight by cancelling both of Argentina's friendly matches as part of a tour of mainland China next month.

    Disgruntled Chinese football fans, blaming Argentine top star Lionel Messi, are now advocating that the Falklands are British, --certainly not Argentine--.Messi failed to play in an exhibition match in Hong Kong, for which the Chinese public paid a considerable sum, and furious frustrated fans are calling the captain of the Argentine World Cup winner a “thief” and contradicting Beijing's official stance that the Malvinas are a relic of British colonialism and that the Islands belong to Argentina.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

    Presidents Milei and Peña review bilateral issues at Casa Rosada

    During their encounter at Casa Rosada, Milei and Peña also discussed the case of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway, among other issues

    Presidents Santiago Peña of Paraguay and Javier Milei of Argentina met Wednesday in Buenos Aires to discuss bilateral interests, such as the Yacyretá Binational Entity (EBY), the border crossing between both countries, trade integration, and free trade agreements between Mercosur and other regions.

  • Wednesday, February 14th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    Paraguayan President due in Buenos Aires for meeting with Milei

    Peña and Milei only met before once: on Dec. 10 for the Argentine President's inauguration

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña is making a snap trip to Buenos Aires on Wednesday to meet with his Argentine colleague Javier Milei, who has just returned from Italy. It will be their second encounter after Milei's Dec. 10 inauguration.

  • Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 11:42 UTC

    Surplus from electricity exports benefits Brazilian customers

    Most electricity exports were to Argentina and the rest to Uruguay

    Brazil totaled a surplus of R$ 888 million (US$ 179.26 million) from electricity sales to neighboring countries, which helped President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration ease the burden on Brazilian consumers, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 11:19 UTC

    Emtrasur freighter handed over to US leaves Ezeiza airport after 20 months

    “The Boeing 747 cargo aircraft arrived in the Southern District of Florida where it will be prepared for disposition,” the US government said in a statement

    The Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 freighter aircraft registration YV3531 of the company Empresa de Transporte Aerocargo del Sur (Emtrasur), a subsidiary of Conviasa, has left after 20 months the Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Ezeiza, Argentina, for the United States.

  • Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Milei says he has built a positive bond with Pope Francis

    Milei and Francis met for over an hour, an unusually long encounter for the Pope with any foreign leader

    Argentine President Javier Milei, who once called Pope Francis “nefarious” and other epithets, admitted Monday that he had to “reconsider some positions” after meeting in person with the leader of the Catholic faith and fellow Buenos Aires native.