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Montevideo, April 28th 2025 - 21:10 UTC

Argentina

  • Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    Uruguay confident Argentine tourists will save the Summer season

    Some 400,000 tourists more than last season are expected to spend 16% more in Uruguay this Summer

    Uruguayan tourism analysts predict a 16% growth in spending from foreign travelers during the Summer. An increase in Argentine visitors is expected given the peso's recovery against the US dollar under Javier Milei's Libertarian administration, while the Brazilian front conveys the opposite image after a recent devaluation of the real.

  • Saturday, December 28th 2024 - 09:17 UTC

    Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find 138th grandchild

    President Javier Milei's budgetary cuts on organizations like hers represent “one of the most brutal adjustments” by the Libertarian administration, Carlotto stressed while announcing the finding

    The social organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced Friday in Buenos Aires at the Casa por la Identidad, in the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos (formerly the ESMA clandestine detention center) “the happy finding of a new grandson, the 138th.”

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 19:43 UTC

    Supermarket sales keep dropping in Argentina

    The Indec also reported a constant process of higher indebtedness by the average consumer

    Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) released Thursday a report mentioning that supermarket sales fell 17.8% yoy in October as consumption continues to fall. Sales in shopping malls and wholesalers also dropped.

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 09:38 UTC

    Argentina's YPF sells lubricants subsidiary in Brazil

    YPF's brands in Brazil will remain under the new owner

    Argentina's State-owned oil company YPF agreed this week to sell its stake in its Brazilian lubricants subsidiary to the local Usiquimica to achieve “greater focus and profitability” in its operations, it was reported in Buenos Aires. The buyer has been producing and trading chemical products for 80 years.

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 08:14 UTC

    Topolansky under investigation for false testimony in crimes against humanity cases

    Topolansky linked her comments to cases in Argentina and offered more information to the collective if they deemed it necessary

    The former vice-president of Uruguay, Lucía Topolansky, will be investigated by prosecutor Eliana Travers after her statements about alleged false testimonies in cases of crimes against humanity during the civil-military dictatorship in Uruguay. Topolansky's comments, made in the book “Los indomables” by journalist Pablo Cohen, generated widespread controversy, as she suggested that some statements in these cases would have been fabricated.

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 06:24 UTC

    Russia’s influence on the world wheat market, a problem for Argentina’s exporters

    Wheat exports from Russia are expected to reach some 29.4 million tons in the first half of 2025

    Despite declining international wheat prices, Russia has been exporting wheat at record levels this season, ahead of a quota set to take effect on February 15. The quota is part of the government’s strategy to bolster domestic supply and curb inflation, which currently stands at 9.5%.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 22:21 UTC

    Former Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela accused of treason

    The Security Ministry said Laborde was a collaborator of Maduro's Chavista regime

    Argentia's Security Minister Thursday filed criminal charges for treason against former Ambassador to Venezuela Oscar Laborde for meddling before the Bolivarian regime in the case of Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) non-commissioned officer Nahuel Gallo who was apprehended by Caracas and accused of espionage. Signing the documents was Security Ministry's Chief Legal Counselor Fernando Soto.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

    Russian diplomats in Buenos Aires invoke immunity to skip breathalyzer tests

    Unaware of the concept of “diplomatic immunity,” the Buenos Aires City Traffic Police threatened to embargo the vehicles if the drivers did not acquiesce to testing

    The Russian Embassy in Buenos Aires filed a protest Wednesday before the Argentine Government of President Javier Milei after traffic police tried the test three members of the diplomatic mission for alcohol.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 08:35 UTC

    Argentine meat exports to Philippines approved

    The two countries also agreed on a reciprocal control and certification scheme

    Argentina has been cleared to start poultry, pork, beef cuts on the bone, and gibblets to the Philippines through an agreement also contemplating reciprocity between the two countries' control and certification systems, which will speed future approvals, it was announced in Buenos Aires.

  • Tuesday, December 24th 2024 - 10:23 UTC

    Chile apologizes for military helicopter flying into Argentine airspace

    “There was indeed an unauthorized overflight over Argentine airspace,” van Klaveren owned up

    Chilean authorities admitted Monday that a military helicopter had flown into Argentine airspace last Friday in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz. Foreign Minister Alberto van Klaveren described the incident as “a mistake” and insisted that the case had been handled through the proper diplomatic channels. Argentina sent a consultation note on this matter, to which “a response has been given,” he explained.