Argentina

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 11:58 UTC

  Argentina sends “debt sustainability” bill to Congress to restructure interest and capital payments

  

  Argentina’s government of Alberto Fernandez is seeking to push through legislation to help solve a mounting debt crisis as the country struggles to make repayments to global creditors.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 11:17 UTC

  Filmus scheduled to discuss the Malvinas Question with C24 delegates and UN Secretary cabinet chief

  

  Argentina will reaffirm its legitimate and imprescriptible sovereignty rights over the South Atlantic Islands and its maritime spaces during a meeting on Thursday in New York with members of the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, or C24, reads a release from the foreign and worship ministry.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentina's ongoing dispute with hedge funds: a legal battle won but it's a long conflict

  

  A U.S. District Judge dismissed the latest lawsuit filed by Aurelius Capital against Argentina over debt. In January 2019 Aurelius Capital Master Ltd., filed in Manhattan a breach of contract suit against Argentina, related to various U.S. dollar tied, GDP-linked securities issued by the South American country in 2005 and 2010.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 - 07:38 UTC

  Argentina needs dollars and will strongly promote tourism; 625.000 cruise visitors expected this season

  

  Argentina is considering the updating and redesign of port infrastructure in Buenos Aires to help improve docking facilities for cruise vessels. The announcement was done by Transport minister Mario Meoni given the growing number of tourists arriving at the Argentine capital.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 - 06:31 UTC

  End of 'comfort zone' for UK in Falklands' issues; Argentine ambassador in London and ex Deputy foreign minister, sacked

  

  The Argentine government has called back to Buenos Aires two ambassadors who were instrumental in the drafting and implementation of the 2016 Foradori-Duncan communiqué which opened the way for a more constructive relationship between Argentina and the UK, in a raft of issues, including those in the South Atlantic and the disputed Falklands Islands.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 - 06:17 UTC

  Purge in the Argentine foreign ministry: Cristina Fernandez loyal are back

  

  Even when Argentine president Alberto Fernandez could come across the Prince of Wales during the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, which convenes some fifty world leaders, this did not prevent him from signing several decrees before leaving for Israel removing ambassadors, two of them closely linked to the Foradori/Duncan communiqué of 2016 which was considered the start of a new constructive page in bilateral relations between UK and Argentina.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez again president, but will not move from her office in Congress

  

  Vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is again president of Argentina, although on an interim basis, while the head of state Alberto Fernandez is off to Israel for a summit of world leaders to a homage to Holocaust victims.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 08:23 UTC

  Australian tourist stabbed and hospitalized in Buenos Aires; they were scheduled to take a cruise to Antarctica

  

  An Australian tourist was stabbed in Buenos Aires while jogging close to the Law School in the posh neighbourhood of La Recoleta. Apparently he was attacked by a lonely delinquent with the intention of robbing his belongings and cellular phone.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  Trump senior advisor says Bolivia's Morales has become a headache for Argentina

  

  A senior adviser to president Trump said that former Bolivian leader Evo Morales has become a “headache” for Argentina. Mauricio Claver-Carone told the Bolivian newspaper Pagina Siete that Argentina should have focused on its economic issues instead of granting Morales asylum.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  Argentina manages to swap treasury bills rescheduling the repayment calendar

  

  Argentina’s economy ministry said on Monday it had exchanged Treasury bills with an original face value of 99.6 billion pesos (US$1.66 billion) in a debt swap auction to help push back its repayment schedule amid a wider economic crisis.