Argentina

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Former Macrist advisor seeks political asylum in Uruguay

  

  Fabián “Pepín” Rodríguez Simón Monday, a former legal advisor to the City of Buenos Aires run by former President Mauricio Macri's Cambiemos alliance, has requested political asylum as a refugee in Uruguay, it was reported.

• Monday, May 17th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Hydrocarbons: Argentina going up as world goes down

  

  The University of Buenos Aires (UBA)'s Gas and Petroleum Institute Director Aníbal Mellano said in an interview published Sunday in the Ambito Financiero newspaper that his country was “in an ascending cycle, within a descending world cycle for hydrocarbons.”

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 18:52 UTC

  Argentine scientist Kini Roesler wins Whitley Award for nature conservation in Patagonia

  

  In 2009, he had a plane ticket to the United States and everything set as a young biologist to start a PhD on tropical Andean birds. However, Argentine biologist Ignacio “Kini” Roesler, decided to stay at home to investigate the dire situation of the Hooded Grebe and help it from extinction. Twelve years later, Kini won a Whitley Award for its work with the Patagonia Programme for the conservation of the vulnerable Patagonian bird.

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  Argentine President tells IMF head no more efforts from Argentine people acceptable

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday rounded up his one-week European tour with meetings in Rome with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva and former US Secretary of State John Kerry before flying back to Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Lula, CFK seal alliance regarding education of future political leaders

  

  Former Argentine President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and former Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva Friday agreed to join forces for the future of the region.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentine President meets Italian PM, the Pope and a top World Bank official

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday met with his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, with Prime Minister Mario Draghi and with Pope Francis in another stop of his one-week European tour.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Argentine inflation for April set at 4.1%

  

  Argentina's April inflation reached 4.1% for a cumulative rise of 17.6% in the first four months of 2021, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) reported on Thursday.

• Thursday, May 13th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  French President Macron supports Argentina regarding IMF, Paris Club talks

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Wednesday expressed his gratitude to his French colleague Emmanuel Macron for the latter's support with regards to debt renegotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Paris Club.

• Thursday, May 13th 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Argentine Economy Minister brokering presidential meeting with IMF's Georgieva

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Martín Guzmán stepped ahead from President Alberto Fernández's European tour and flew to Rome Wednesday to meet with International Monetary Fund Deputy Director for the Western Hemisphere Julie Kozak.

• Thursday, May 13th 2021 - 08:46 UTC

  Will Argentina squeeze exporters as soybeans rise above US $ 600 in Chicago?

  

  Argentine economists are eyeing the recent increase in the international price of soybeans as some sort of light at the end of the tunnel following a severe recession, high indebtedness amid the coronavirus pandemic.