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Montevideo, December 21st 2025 - 04:05 UTC

Argentina

  • Friday, December 1st 2023 - 22:39 UTC

    Milei confirms Bullrich will be his Security Minister

    The PRO Chairwoman and former presidential candidate held that position under Macri

    The Office of Argentina's President-Elect (@OPEArg) Friday confirmed Patricia Bullrich would return to her position as Security Minister once Javier Milei is sworn in on Dec. 10. The Chairwoman of former President Mauricio Macri's Propuesta Republicana party (PRO) held that job between 2015 and 2019. In the Oct. 22 elections, she failed to make it through to the Nov. 19 runoff so both she and Macri announced they would support Milei's candidacy against Economy Minister Sergio Massa.

  • Friday, December 1st 2023 - 10:24 UTC

    Lacalle Pou optimistic about Milei's future government

    “Always, when something new starts, you give it credit,” Lacalle said

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said Thursday that this might change foreign relations with Javier Milei's government in Argentina: “We have not been lucky in foreign relations” but, with the Libertarian leader, “the region is changing and we are going to take advantage of it,” Lacalle stressed.

  • Thursday, November 30th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

    Milei foresees stagflation for the coming months

    “Inflation is going to remain high because it is the result of the mess made by this government,” Milei said upon returning from the US

    Argentina's Legislative Assembly (Lower and Upper House together) Wednesday proclaimed Javier Milei's victory with 55.65% (14,554,560) of the votes in the Nov. 19 runoff against Economy Minister Sergio Massa. Chairing the meeting, Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) also confirmed Victoria Villarruel would be her successor.

  • Thursday, November 30th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    Uruguay and Paraguay take action to prevent equine encephalomyelitis

    Equine encephalomyelitis calls for the same measures recommended to avoid dengue or zika, Rando explained

    Paraguayan and Uruguayan health authorities have been reported to be taking preventive measures regarding a possible outbreak of equine encephalomyelitis.

  • Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

    Lacalle Herrera wishes Milei all the best

    The father of the current Uruguayan president wished his son and Milei understand each other well

    During his recent trip to the beach resort and port of Mar del Plata, former Uruguayan President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera (1990-1995), the father of the current head of state Luis Lacalle Pou, wished Javier Milei all the best because “a prosperous, fair, orderly and rich Argentina is the best business for Uruguay.”

  • Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

    Four more Argentines freed by Hamas

    Some 15 Argentines are believed to still be in the hands of Hamas or other groups

    The terrorist group Hamas Tuesday released ten women, four of them Argentine nationals, in exchange for another batch of 30 Palestinian inmates held by Israel at the Ofer prison in the West Bank and in the Russian prison in Jerusalem, as the humanitarian truce was extended to allow for further swaps. Two other hostages were also freed as a bonus not contemplated in the agreement.

  • Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 09:31 UTC

    Buenos Aires Court rulings go Macri's way

    CFK will lose all immunity effective Dec. 10.

    Separate court rulings issued Tuesday in Buenos Aires seemed to accommodate former President Mauricio Macri's agenda, thus heralding the times to come after Javier Milei's Dec. 10 inauguration.

  • Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 07:14 UTC

    Falklands: mines discovered on a beach in Murrell Peninsula, north of Stanley

    The Falklands Government is working alongside the EOD section of BFSAI and expert advice is also being provided by external parties.

    The Falkland Islands Government has confirmed that a number of mines have been discovered on Hell’s Kitchen beach on the designated Government Reserve, located on the Murrell Peninsula East Falkland, north of Stanley.

  • Tuesday, November 28th 2023 - 11:05 UTC

    Argentine president elect Milei is right about one thing: British sovereignty of the Falklands must end

    Sir Simon David Jenkins FSA FRSL FLSW is a British author, a newspaper columnist and editor.

    By Simon Jenkins from The Guardian - The Conservatives’ stubborn stance on the Islands’ future is merely a refusal to let go of our last spark of military glory

  • Tuesday, November 28th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    Outbreak of equine encephalomyelitis in several Argentine provinces

    SENASA reports that all establishments or farms which notified such symptoms and death of horses have been interdicted with absolute movement restriction for all equines.

    Argentina's Animal Health and Food Quality Service, SENASA, has officially reported positive results of alphavirus, equine encephalomyelitis from regional labs in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Corrientes and Santa Fe, where samples of nervous or dying horses were collected.