Argentina

• Thursday, September 30th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Type 21 frigates' crews monument at San Carlos prepared for Falklands' 40th anniversary

  

  Falklands-based sailors tidied up the monument to crews of Type 21 frigates ahead of next year’s 40th anniversary of the conflict. A team of seven personnel who support the United Kingdom operations in the South Atlantic climbed Campito Hill which dominates nearby San Carlos Water – scene of several days of a bitter battle between the liberating fleet and Argentine aircraft in May 1982.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Migrations Director confirms Argentine borders are open for everyone as of November 1

  

  Argentina's Migration Director Florencia Carignano Tuesday confirmed borders will be open to anyone starting November 1st.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2021 - 08:27 UTC

  Argentine meat sales to China to resume next week; the rest of the world will have to wait until 2022

  

  Argentina will resume meat exports to China as of this coming Monday, it was announced Tuesday in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2021 - 00:13 UTC

  Argentine national gov't to hunt down those unregistered for vax

  

  Argentina's Federal Health Council Monday announced that although immunization will not be mandatory, a nationwide house-by-house vaccination campaign will be launched for those who have not registered to take their injections.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2021 - 23:44 UTC

  Federal forces to be deployed in violence-riddled Argentine city of Rosario

  

  The Argentine Government Tuesday announced the sending of a 1.575-strong federal security team to the Rosario area in the province of Santa Fe within the next two to three weeks, as drug violence and crime are increasingly on the rise since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina's ruling party keeps losing political ground, poll says

  

  Argentina's ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) coalition looks poised to a defeat at Nov- 14's mid-term elections worse than the one suffered Sept. 14 during the Mandatory, Open and Sim, simultaneous Primary (PASO) elections, according to a Solmoirago poll released Monday.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Uruguayan President to announce measures in view of Argentine border reopening

  

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou will be announcing Tuesday a package of measures to contain the impact on businesses in areas bordering Argentina for when the latter reopens its borders on October 1.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Former Argentine Environment Secretary handed down suspended jail sentence for fraud

  

  Former Argentine Environment Secretary Romina Picolotti has been sentenced to three years in jail for fraud and embezzlement, although the execution of the sentence has been suspended, it was announced Monday.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Peruvian currency plunges against US dollar following PM's nationalization threat against gas supplier

  

  The Peruvian sol fell sharply Monday against the US dollar in Lima markets following Sunday's statements from Prime Minister Guido Bellido, who threatened the new government might stabilize the cooking gas supplier Camisea.

• Monday, September 27th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Argentina's revamped cabinet needs to lift cap on meat exports asap

  

  Argentina's new Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur is said to be speeding up the path towards the lifting of caps on meat exports in an attempt to bring in hard currency as the government of President Alberto Fernández desperately tries to recover from defeat at Sept. 12's Mandatory, Simultaneous and Open Primary (PASO) elections.