Argentina

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  Argentine province of Salta holds local elections under sanitary protocols

  

  The Argentine province of Salta Sunday held local elections of provincial and municipal lawmakers through an electronic ballot system and amid special covid-19 protection measures.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 07:20 UTC

  Falklands Islands (Malvinas): Forensic identification of fallen Argentine soldiers begins

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun a second phase of forensic work to identify Argentine soldiers buried on the Falklands Islands (Malvinas).

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 06:40 UTC

  Departure of foreign companies from Argentina and also from Brazil on the rise and with no end in sight

  

  Foreign companies keep leaving Argentina and claiming those moves are part of global strategies. Local analysts are reluctant to believe these explanations, but perhaps they would reconsider their stance if they see a similar exodus also taking place in Brazil.

• Saturday, August 14th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Presidents of Argentina, Uruguay have dinner in BA to seek a fresh start in bilateral relations after Summit brush

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday welcomed his Uruguayan colleague Luis Lacalle Pou over for dinner at the Olivos Residence in an attempt to restore relations between the two of them following a crash during a Mercosur Summit earlier this year.

• Saturday, August 14th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Argentine President says breach of quarantine was the First Lady's fault

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday laid the blame on the First Lady for the family gathering picture leaked in the past few days and which proved a violation to the quarantine he himself had decreed.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 10:19 UTC

  Argentina wants to prove it existed as such 200 years ago

  

  Argentina officially invited the Portuguese president and Prime Minister to visit the country as part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the recognition by Lisbon of Argentina's independence.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Opposition lawmakers to seek impeachment of Argentine President for violating quarantine he had decreed

  

  Argentine opposition lawmakers Thursday announced they would be seeking the impeachment of President Alberto Fernández after the image of him holding a party in violation of his own urgency emergency decree (DNU) capping attendants and mandating distancing protocols became public knowledge.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Presidents of Argentina, Uruguay meeting in Buenos Aires to discuss Mercosur issues

  

  President Alberto Fernández of Argentina will host his Uruguayan colleague Luis Lacalle Pou Friday at the Olivos residence, during which both heads of state are expected to discuss Mercosur issues and other matters concerning bilateral relations.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 09:37 UTC

  Argentina's inflation for July 2021 measured at 3%

  

  Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI-Cost of Living) increased 3% in July, according to a report from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) released Thursday.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Argentina starts distributiing Sputnik V vaccines produced locally

  

  Distribution of the Russian developed Sputnik V vaccine manufactured in Argentina started Thursday with the first batch of 1.14 million doses, it was reported.