Argentina

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 12:02 UTC

  Uruguay and Argentina with a “dry border” for the first time in history

  

  Uruguay and Argentina will have for the first time a “dry border”. This is not because historians, cartographers or geographers suddenly found out, or Uruguay grabbed land from its larger neighbor.

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina lines up for the August primaries; three leading presidential tickets

  

  Months of intense political negotiations and last minute nerve breaking deals came to an end in Argentina on Sunday's zero hour deadline, when the different political groupings had to present to electoral authorities their list of presidential hopefuls, as well as future lawmakers.

• Sunday, June 23rd 2019 - 14:43 UTC

  Ashes of General Mario Menendez strategically scattered in Falkland Islands

  

  By Heather Briley, Buenos Aires - The ashes of the notorious Argentine general who oversaw the brutal occupation of the Falklands have been scattered in secret on the islands after being smuggled over in a Tupperware box, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 11:18 UTC

  Argentina with a multi-party delegation to claim the Falklands at the C24 meeting

  

  It's an election year in Argentina so a pluralistic delegation will be travelling to New York to make the country's annual claim over the Falkland Islands sovereignty before the United Nations Decolonization Committee, next Tuesday, according to reports in the Buenos Aires media.

• Thursday, June 20th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Unemployment in Argentina jumps to 10.1% in the first quarter of 2019

  

  Argentina's unemployment rate rose to 10.1% in the first quarter from 9.1% in the first three months of last year, the official INDEC statistics agency said. This is the highest level since current president Mauricio Macri took office, and the worst in thirteen years.

• Thursday, June 20th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina's economy contracted 5,8% during the first quarter of 2019

  

  Argentina’s economy contracted 5.8% in the first quarter of 2019, the country’s statistics agency said on Wednesday, a reflection of the biting recession that has hammered domestic consumption and production.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine political scenario prepares for the October presidential election

  

  Argentine politician Sergio Massa, who recently pledged his support to the main opposition challengers to President Mauricio Macri, is in line to play a key role in the country's Congress if his new allies win national elections later this year.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Latam stocks and currencies surged on Tuesday on favorable global news

  

  Latin American stocks and currencies surged on Tuesday with a dovish boost from the European Central Bank and positive headlines from the U.S.-China trade tensions boosting sentiment.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentina opens an official inquiry into Sunday's massive blackout

  

  Argentina has opened an inquiry into what caused a massive blackout that left nearly 50 million people without power, Energy Minister Gustavo Lopetegui said on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Agreement to implement an ambitious Plata basin that benefits six countries

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee of the countries of the Plata Basin (CIC) signed an agreement on Monday for the project “Preparing the ground for the Implementation of the Strategic Action Program for the La Plata Basin,” during a ceremony at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.