Argentina

• Wednesday, March 24th 2021 - 14:50 UTC

  China-backed railway projects gain momentum in Chile and Argentina

  

  The government of Chile Tuesday unveiled 15 brand new railway units made in China, with which the South American country intends to revamp its train service both for passengers and cargo.

• Wednesday, March 24th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Good negotiations between Argentina, IMF – but “dialogue will continue”

  

  Argentina's Economy Minister Martín Guzmán and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, Tuesday met in Washington to discuss the renegotiation alternatives to the 2018 u$s 57 billion loans brokered by the administration of then-President Mauricio Macri.

• Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 08:25 UTC

  Argentine football teams launch project to help families who lost members to military dictatorships

  

  Argentine football rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate launched a joint project on Friday aimed at giving a voice to the families of club members who went missing during the country’s right-wing dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.

• Friday, March 19th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  Argentina buying LNG cargoes from BP, preparing for the coming winter

  

  Argentina's state-owned IEASA received offers from 14 companies to supply 24 LNG cargoes at an average price of US$ 6.50/mn Btu. All the offers are expected to be awarded for a total of US$ 330mn, according to the energy secretariat.

• Thursday, March 18th 2021 - 20:28 UTC

  UK, Argentina and the Falklands signed an agreement for the second phase to identify soldiers fallen in 1982

  

  The governments of the United Kingdom, the Falkland Islands and Argentina agreed on Thursday to carry out a new stage of the Humanitarian Project Plan that began in 2017 and has allowed the identification of 115 Argentine soldiers fallen during the 1982 armed conflict. The agreement was signed at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, Switzerland and the Plan will be resumed in August, as confirmed by the British Embassy in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, March 18th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Falklands: begins second phase to identify Argentine soldiers remains

  

  The accord for the second phase of the humanitarian initiative to identify the remains of Argentine combatants buried at the Argentine military cemetery in the Falkland Islands is scheduled to be signed this Thursday in Geneva, while work could be starting by next August.

• Thursday, March 18th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentine economy minister to meet IMF in Washington; no deal expected in May

  

  Argentina's Economy Minister Martin Guzmán traveled to New York on Wednesday night to meet investors before heading to Washington for talks with the International Monetary Fund, a government source said.

• Thursday, March 18th 2021 - 08:53 UTC

  YPF hikes fuel prices 7% to help finance an ambitious investment plan to boost crude production

  

  YPF, the biggest oil producer in Argentina, said on March 16 that it hiked diesel and gasoline pump prices by 7%, helping to finance a US$2.7 billion investment plan to boost crude output.

• Tuesday, March 16th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Argentina industrial output forecasted to increase 6% this year over 2020

  

  Argentina's Ministry of Development and Production anticipated that the country's industrial output should grow more than 6% this year compared to 2020. Economist Matias Kulfas said he expected Argentina's economy as a whole to expand 5% to 6% during the year, based on preliminary data and depending on how the novel coronavirus and vaccination campaign evolves and its impact on growth.

• Monday, March 15th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Mercosur 26th March summit to be held on line, because of sanitary situation in the region

  

  The Mercosur face-to-face presidential summit scheduled for 26th March originally planned to take place in Argentina that currently holds the rotating chair of the block, will be held online because of the sanitary situation in the region.