Argentina

Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 21:34 UTC
Russia urges Argentina, UK to resume sovereignty talks over Falkland Islands

Russia's Foreign Ministry has released a statement from Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova urging for the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and the United Kingdom regarding sovereignty over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.
Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:56 UTC
Argentina's intelligence bureau to digitize State terrorism files

Argentina authorities have announced a plan to digitize over 250,000 documents on State terrorism carried out under various military regimes in the country's history, it was announced in Buenos Aires.
Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:52 UTC
Argentina's Central Bank raises reference rate to cope with inflation

Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) has adjusted the basic interest rate by 250 basis points to 47% per annum in nominal terms in a move to counter the effects of rampant inflation.
Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:43 UTC
Argentina: CFK acquitted in gas overpricing case

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) has been acquitted in the case of alleged overpricing in the purchase of Liquefied National Gas. Judge Julián Ercolini's ruling also reached her former aides Julio De Vido, Roberto Baratta, and other officials of her administration.
Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:37 UTC
Buenos Aires: EuroLat due to vote on agreed topics

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernàndez de Kirchner (CFK) welcomed to Buenos Aires' Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) the more than 100 lawmakers who participated in this year's Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) sessions under the slogan “A fair, inclusive, and peaceful economic recovery.”
Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 10:45 UTC
“Argentina never created conditions for Falkland Islanders to become Argentine citizens”, lawmaker Milei

“Malvinas sovereignty negotiations are going to be very long. it's a complicated issue”, and although a territorial claim, “Argentina never created the conditions for Falkland Islanders to want to become Argentine citizens”, said Javier Milei, an Argentine member of the Lower House who was the sensation of last October's midterm election
Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:53 UTC
“It's going to be a long cold winter in Buenos Aires”

By Haley Zaremba, Oilprice.com – A fuel shortage is causing political turmoil and social unrest in Argentina, and could even result in a food shortage as the South American nation’s grain transporters call or a strike in the face of sky-high fuel prices during the harvest season for soy and corn.
Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:30 UTC
Latin America’s New Pink Tide? Or three brands of “Left” regimes

By Jorge G. Castañeda (*) – Like the wave of leftist victories in the early 2000s following Hugo Chávez’s rise to power in Venezuela (1999-2013), the success of left-wing leaders across Latin America in recent years has been interpreted as a broader political paradigm shift. But these leaders’ substantive differences are more significant than their similarities.
Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:28 UTC
Argentina's Antarctic office looking for 2023 campaign scientists

Argentina's National Antarctic Directorate (DNA) is looking for engineers and students of computer and electronic engineering to fill a dozen technical positions during the winter at the permanent bases Orcadas, Belgrano II, San Martín, Marambio, and Carlini in 2023.
Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:13 UTC
The majestic Norwegian tall ship marked the end of Ushuaia's cruise season

With the departure on Monday of the Norwegian flagged three-mast tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina, considered the “successful” 2021/22 cruise season over. According to local port authorities from the province of Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia received more than 200 calls and some 60,000 visitors, since the arrival last 7 November of NatGeo Endurance, and was the only Latin American port that did not interrupt its summer activities.