Argentina

• Wednesday, May 19th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentine meat processing plant closes after ban on exports: agri-food producers go on strike

  

  The Rafaela Alimentos meat processing plant in Casilda in the province of Santa Fe Tuesday closed down temporarily in response to the ban on exports decreed by the Argentine Government of President Alberto Fernández. The company employs 650 workers.

• Wednesday, May 19th 2021 - 08:31 UTC

  Canadian lab seeks volunteers in Argentina to test new covid vaccine

  

  The Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago is looking for 5000 volunteers in Argentina to prove the effectiveness of a new vaccine against coronavirus, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina bans meat exports for 30 days in an attempt to curb inflation

  

  The Argentine government of President Alberto Fernández has announced all meat exports will be banned for the next 30 days in an attempt to slow down inflation as domestic prices went up 20% owing to foreign demand.

• 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.