Argentina

• Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentine Senate passes Income Tax reform with all votes but one

  

  Argentina's Upper House Thursday passed by 66 votes in favour and one abstention the tax reforms proposed by the government of President Alberto Fernández, which would rid workers with a monthly gross income of 150,000 pesos (around 1,100 US dollars at the unofficial exchange rate) of paying the income tax.

• Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentine officers accused for torturing own troops during 1982 war

  

  The Federal Court of Appeals of Comodoro Rivadavia Thursday upheld in a 2-1 vote the arraignment of former Argentine officers Eduardo Gassino, Belisario Affranchino Rumi, Gustavo Calderini and Miguel Ángel Garde for “imposition of torments” on soldiers under their command during the 1982 armed conflict with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:54 UTC

  Brazil Vice-President dubs Argentina “an eternal beggar”

  

  In a statement supporting the government's proposed fiscal adjustment, Brazil's Vice President Hamilton Mourao Thursday labelled Argentina an “eternal beggar,” which might spark another diplomatic incident, of which the administration of President Alberto Fernández has had a handful in the past few days.

• Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:30 UTC

  Argentina's INDEC figures “encouraging” for government, still not for people

  

  While inflation grows rampant and people lose some or all of their income in the middle of the coronavirus restrictions, Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) Thursday released a new economic report which showed positive figures.

• Friday, April 9th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Chilean, Argentine scientists find remains of mammal from the age of dinosaurs

  

  The University of Chile Thursday announced the discovery of the remains of a hitherto unknown species of a mammal that inhabited Patagonia some 74 million years ago.

• Thursday, April 8th 2021 - 10:32 UTC

  IMF likely to review interest rates charged to Argentina... in due time

  

  International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva Wednesday admitted the rates Argentina is currently paying will be subject to review, at the request of the South American country.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Patagonian hotels returned to Kirchner family as money laundering enquire reaches nowhere

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Monday recovered all her assets which have been involved in an alleged money-laundering scheme, a federal court ruled Monday.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina complains of Uruguayan acquiescence to RAF transport aircraft

  

  Argentina filed a formal complaint Tuesday before Uruguay for allowing a British Royal Air Force transport aircraft serving the Falkland Islands to refuel at Montevideo on April 4, it was reported.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 07:17 UTC

  Mar del Plata's Sheraton Hotel closes for… ¿two months?

  

  The Sheraton Hotel in the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata Tuesday decided to shut down for two months and take advantage of a Labor Law clause that allows companies to keep their staff earning 75 per cent of their salaries in crisis such as the coronavirus pandemic.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguay formally requests meeting with Argentina to work on Mercosur's flexibilization

  

  Uruguay's Foreign Ministry Monday submitted a formal request to the Argentine government to hold a meeting to discuss the flexibility of Mercosur, it was reported.