Argentina

Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 07:21 UTC
Ex president Mujica calls Argentines “swindlers”; Buenos Aires media demand an apology

Uruguayan ex-president Jose Mujica is well known for his eclectic statements, expressed in the most coarse language, and in these austral summer days, with much sun and hard-drinking, was again at it, this time mocking the Argentines and his Kirchner friends which he openly supported in the recent election that meant the return of the Ks' populism.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina pledges bill to attract investment for production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez will send a bill to Congress to attract investment for the production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, a spokesman for the Production Development ministry said.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:30 UTC
Justice demanded for Argentina's slain terrorism prosecutor

By Toby Dershowitz - Alberto Nisman once told me he agreed to investigate Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack on one condition: that he be able to pursue the case wherever the evidence led. This commitment to justice ultimately cost Nisman his life five years ago this week. (January 18)
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:11 UTC
Fernandez off to Israel for a Holocaust Remembrance summit ceremony; Macron, Putin, Pence among attendants

Argentine president Alberto Fernández will visit Jerusalem this week to participate in the International Leaders Forum in Commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, which will constitute his first official trip overseas after taking office on December 10.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 07:33 UTC
Nisman's homage turns into allegations of an impunity pact between president Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner

Thousands marched in downtown Buenos Aires, on Saturday. demanding an answer to the still unsolved mysterious death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found with a gunshot to the head, exactly five years ago ( January 18).
Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:58 UTC
Support words from IMF chief for Argentina's efforts to recover the economy

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday the lender has had “very constructive” exchanges with Argentina's new Peronist government and would do whatever possible to assist the indebted country.
Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:50 UTC
If Argentine prosecutor Nisman was murdered, the U.N. should conduct the investigation into his death

The following opinion column was written by Andres Oppenheimer, an Argentine journalist who has been living in the United States for several decades and is an expert in Latin American affairs.
Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:48 UTC
Cristina Fernandez again considered the most influential Argentine

After eight years in office, back in 2015, when ex-president Cristina Fernandez left office, she ranked ninth among the most influential Argentines, according to an ongoing national opinion poll from Giacobbe & Associates which was started in the nineties.
Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:45 UTC
Another Argentine province, Chubut, asks to delay payments on debt

The government of Argentina's Chubut province will seek to delay payments on debt after Buenos Aires province, Argentina's largest, also asked its creditors for extensions as the country grapples with a debt crisis, local media reported on Friday.
Friday, January 17th 2020 - 12:28 UTC
Magellanic penguins rookery discovered in Tierra del Fuego remote island

Just in time for Penguin Awareness Day on January 20th, WCS researchers announced the discovery of a new colony of Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) on a remote island in Argentina.