Argentina

• Monday, December 7th 2020 - 09:06 UTC

  Argentina launches the 2020/21 limited Antarctica campaign, with special care o no possible coronavirus contagion

  

  The official Argentine 2020/21 Antarctic season was launched last Friday with a ceremony at the Buenos Aires Navy pier where the icebreaker “ARA Almirante Irizar” was docked, but with no authorities boarding the vessel to avoid any possible coronavirus contagion.

• Sunday, December 6th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Argentine squid season south of parallel 44 takes off on January 16

  

  The 2021 Argentine squid season. south of parallel 44, takes off next 16 January, according to the country's Fisheries Federal Council, following on the scientific report from Inidep, the national fisheries research and development institute.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 18:13 UTC

  Kirsty Hayes to be the next United Kingdom Ambassador to Argentina

  

  The United Kingdom has appointed on Friday Mrs Kirsty Isobel Hayes as the future Ambassador to Argentina in succession to Mr Mark Kent. The British embassy in Buenos Aires will welcome Hayes in September 2021.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Imaginative Argentine minister almost spoils first video phone dialogue between Biden and Fernandez

  

  Argentine foreign minister Felipe Solá was involved in an incident which would have normally demanded his resignation or sacking, because he misinterpreted or simply invented the issues of a conversation between president elect Joe Biden and his Argentine peer, Alberto Fernandez triggering a serious diplomatic misunderstanding in a most delicate moment.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  IMF and Argentina discussions “very fluid and constructive”, but no date for closing a new deal

  

  Negotiations between the International Monetary Fund and Argentina over a new IMF loan program are “very fluid and constructive,” with Argentine officials expected to come to Washington in the coming days for more talks, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said on Thursday.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Poverty in Argentina reaches 44,2% of the population, with special impact on households with children

  

  Some 18 million people, 44,2% of the Argentine population live in poverty conditions, and indigence trapped 10,1%, during the third quarter of 2020, according to the Argentina Catholic University Social Debt Observatory.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Uruguay/Google Tannat cable system links with Brazil and Argentina

  

  The Tannat cable system connecting Uruguay and Brazil by sea has now been officially extended to Argentina. The cable is co-owned by Uruguay’s state-run telco Antel and by Google. Active since 2018, the 2,000km system links Maldonado, near Montevideo in Uruguay, to Praia Grande/Santos in Brazil’s São Paulo state.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Ford plans to invest US$ 500 million in Argentina to launch its new Ranger model

  

  U.S. automaker Ford on Tuesday announced it will invest 580 million U.S. dollars in Argentina to manufacture the next generation of its Ranger model truck at its plant in the city of General Pacheco, in northern Greater Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 08:53 UTC

  Argentine agro-export industry workers on strike freezing shipments

  

  Two major unions in Argentina's agro-export industry, one of the world's top grains exporters, said that they would launch an indefinite strike starting Tuesday morning, ramping up a standoff that has been simmering for months.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 08:16 UTC

  Maradona's death investigation: police raids the office and home of the psychiatrist

  

  The investigation into Diego Maradona’s death continued on Tuesday with police raids on the office and home of the psychiatrist who cared for the football star and is being investigated for possible medical negligence.