Argentina

• Saturday, May 1st 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentine President Fernández extends current covid-19 restrictions until May 21

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday announced the current restriction on the circulation of people in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) was being extended until May 21.

• Saturday, May 1st 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentine President picks new Transport Minister to replace the late Mario Meoni

  

  Argentina President Alberto Fernández has selected Trenes Argentinos Infraestructura CEO Alexis Guerrera to become the new Transport Minister in place of the late Mario Meoni, who passed away in a car accident on April 23.

• Saturday, May 1st 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Mercosur partners sign e-commerce agreement

  

  The four founding and still full members of Mercosur - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – Friday signed in Montevideo the bloc's electronic commerce accord which had been agreed on at the Common Market Council virtual Meeting last December, it was announced.

• Saturday, May 1st 2021 - 08:16 UTC

  Maradona's death could have been prevented, court doctors say

  

  Medical experts appointed by the Office of the Prosecutor investigating the death of Diego Armando Maradona Friday concluded the Argentine football star lacked proper health care assistance and that he might have survived under different conditions.

• Friday, April 30th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Ford increases output in Argentina, hires more workers

  

  Despite all pandemic-related setbacks, Ford's carmaking plant in Pacheco, 30 kilometres northwest of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) in Argentina, has increased its output of the Ranger model, for which 256 new personnel has been hired, it was reported.

• Thursday, April 29th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentina interested in manufacturing Cuban vaccine against covid-19

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Felipe Solá Wednesday discussed with Cuba's Ambassador to Buenos Aires the possibility of developing locally a Cuban-created vaccine against covid-19, it was announced.

• Wednesday, April 28th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentina halts exports of oxygen to meet domestic health demand

  

  Argentina is cancelling all exports of oxygen to cope with growing domestic demand, Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas announced Tuesday.

• Wednesday, April 28th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Jigging fleet finds large squid off Falklands – season not over yet

  

  As the catching season seemed over for Puerto Deseado's fleet, the new finding brought relief to the squid sector and work now may continue for a while.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  External tariffs discussed at Mercosur foreign ministers virtual meeting

  

  The Government of Argentina Monday submitted a proposal for the average reduction of the Common External Tariffs during a virtual meeting of Southern Common Market (Mercosur)'s Foreign Ministers, it was announced.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Chilean truck drivers retaliate for roadblocks, isolate Tierra del Fuego

  

  The Argentine Province of Tierra del Fuego continues to be isolated from the mainland since this past weekend as lorries keep blocking the Chilean road linking it to the Province of Santa Cruz, leaving the only sea and air travel available.