Argentina

Friday, December 3rd 2021 - 09:12 UTC
Argentine Health Pass to be ready “next week,” minister says

Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Thursday announced the Government's Health Pass will be ready next week. The permit, which will ban those who lack it from accessing certain activities, is regarded as an incentive for people to take their COVID-19 vaccines.
Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:48 UTC
Macri charged with espionage against relatives of ARA San Juan crew

Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri has been charged with espionage against the relatives of the doomed ARA San Juan submarine. Upon deciding the measure, Federal Judge Martín Bava Wednesday ruled the former head of state be banned from leaving the country.
Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:40 UTC
Fernandez and Bolsonaro seal close relations in the Day of Argentine/Brazilian Friendship

In anticipation of the coming Mercosur presidential summit, 16/17 December when Argentina will hand the rotating chair of the group to Brazil, and celebrate the 36th anniversary of the signing of the Foz de Iguazu Declaration, which set the foundations for Mercosur, big reception for some 300 guests was held at the Argentine embassy in Brasilia.
Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:05 UTC
Argentina and China strengthen cooperation on several issues

The governments of Argentina and China Wednesday agreed to strengthen bilateral ties, particularly in science and technological developments, it was reported.
Wednesday, December 1st 2021 - 09:43 UTC
Puerto Madryn refuses to allow cruise vessel Hamburg to dock or let people ashore

The mayor of Puerto Madryn, Patagonia province of Chubut, Gustavo Sastre has asked the local port authority to prevent the cruise vessel Hamburg from calling and docking at the harbor. Hamburg is continuing with its southern cruise, after having left Buenos Aires on Monday
Wednesday, December 1st 2021 - 09:00 UTC
New Covid-19 case detected aboard controversial Hamburg cruise ship

Argentina's Health Ministry Tuesday ordered everyone on board the cruise ship Hamburg must remain under quarantine after a new case of COVID-19 has been detected.
Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 19:00 UTC
Unauthorized works kill hundreds of penguins in Chubut

A landowner in the town of Punta Tombo in the Argentine Province of Chubut is to be prosecuted under the Law of Cruelk Treatment Against Animals after crushing several penguin nests and electrocuting over a hundred of the birds living at the local natural wildlife reserve some 110 kilometres south from Rawson, the provincial capital.
Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:20 UTC
Argentine Border Health authorities learn Cape Verde is not in Asia

As incoming trips from Africa were banned almost worldwide in light of the appearance of the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2, Argentine authorities had no trouble allowing a cruise ship steaming from Cape Verde to moor in Buenos Aires.... because “it came from Asia.”
Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:20 UTC
Thursday, D day for cruise Ultramarine and its delayed departure from Ushuaia on an Antarctic expedition

Expedition cruise Ultramarine must remain in total confinement at the port of Ushuaia until next Thursday, following nine positive PCR tests among the 173 strong crew. No person is allowed on board or to disembark although water and supplies have been guaranteed, as well as all the necessary health support
Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:14 UTC
Argentine 2022 diplomatic strategy: promoting “Malvinas Support Groups” world wide

Argentina's Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands Affairs Secretary, Guillermo Carmona was recently in Peru to prop support for the campaign planned to reinstate the Falklands/Malvinas dispute top of the country's international agenda, in coincidence with the 40th anniversary of the 1982 conflict that followed Argentina's invasion of the Islands.