Argentina

• Saturday, December 18th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Uruguay does not sign joint declaration at Mercosur Summit

  

  Uruguay stood out for its dissenting stance at the 59th Summit of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) Friday after President Luis Lacalle Pou refused to sign a joint declaration.

• Saturday, December 18th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  President wants Buenos Aires to no longer be capital of Argentina

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday said he was entertaining the idea that the country's capital should not be Buenos Aires, thus resurfacing a controversy from 1853-1860 which then-President Raúl Alfonsín also sough in the 1980s to reshape.

• Saturday, December 18th 2021 - 09:22 UTC

  Argentina creates Joint Maritime Command to patrol national waters

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana announced the creation of the Joint Maritime Command, which will be in charge of the permanent patrolling and monitoring of the Argentine sea.

• Friday, December 17th 2021 - 21:20 UTC

  Picture of canvas swimming pool to contain oil spill in Argentina goes viral

  

  The picture of a canvas swimming pool designed for the backyard of a modest income family has been used by oil pipeline operators Oldelval to contain a crude spill of over 3 million liters in Argentine Patagonia has gone viral.

• Friday, December 17th 2021 - 19:56 UTC

  Chubut's capital virtually on fire after demonstrations against mining law

  

  Demonstrators in the Argentine province of Chubut set the Government House and other public buildings in the capital city of Rawson on fire to express their opposition to a mega-mining bill passed by the local legislature.

• Friday, December 17th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentina to donate 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Bolivia

  

  Argentina has announced one million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will be sent to Bolivia next Monday, making it “the largest donation of doses between countries in South America since the global pandemic was declared,” according to a Health Ministry statement. The doses will be carried in a Hercules C-130 aircraft of the Argentine Air Force.

• Friday, December 17th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Real estate booms in Uruguay with Argentine buyers

  

  As soon as Uruguay reopened its borders to Argentines owning property in the country, real estate purchases have tripled only in the months of October and November, it was reported.

• Friday, December 17th 2021 - 08:59 UTC

  Air Canada returns to Argentina after pandemic restrictions

  

  Air Canada has resumed regular operations to / from Argentina with four weekly frequencies serving Buenos Aires' Ezeiza international airport Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from Montreal, via São Paulo (Brazil), using Boeing 787-9 aircraft.

• Thursday, December 16th 2021 - 09:56 UTC

  Nothing to fear at Mercosur Summit Friday, Argentine ambassador says

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Brazil Daniel Scioli Wednesday said Friday's Mercosur Summit posed no risk of tensions between Presidents Alberto Fernández and Jair Bolsonaro, despite former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva's recent appearance at a ceremony in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, December 16th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Statue of Diego Maradona unveiled at Ezeiza airport

  

  A real-life statue of former Argentine football legend Diego Maradona was unveiled Wednesday at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport.