Argentina

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 21:55 UTC

  Argentina eyes reopening Norpatagónico railroad to boost Vaca Muerta

  

  Argentina will seek 780 million US dollars to recover the Norpatagónico freight railroad to link the Vaca Muerta hydrocarbon facilities to the port of Bahía Blanca, in the province of Buenos Aires, through Neuquén, La Pampa and RioNegro, President Mauricio Macri's administration announced Wednesday.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 20:05 UTC

  Argentina - UK: Foreign ministers meet in London

  

  On Minister Faurie’s first official visit to the UK he held talks with his counterpart, Jeremy Hunt, on the most salient issues of the broad bilateral agenda.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 12:50 UTC

  Mapuche demands freeze Chinese wind energy project for Bariloche

  

  A Chinese renewable energy investment in Patagonia was halted after no agreement could be reached with the small mapuche community living where the wind turbines were going to be installed.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Trump-Xi summit in Buenos Aires next month announced the White House

  

  President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will meet at the G-20 summit in Argentina next month, the White House announced on Tuesday, amid an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies. The G-20 Summit, comprising top 20 economies of the world, including India, is scheduled to take place in Buenos Aires in Argentine on November 30 and December 1.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentine foreign minister in political and business visit to United Kingdom

  

  Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie will be visiting the United Kingdom this week where he is scheduled to address an important political and economic agenda, meetings with top level British officials and a conference on Latin America at Chatham House.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Argentine Peso slips on Tuesday; central bank sells debt notes at a rate of 71.39%

  

  Argentina’s peso slipped on Tuesday, a day after the central bank’s new governor reassured the public that its approach to taming the country’s rocky economy would be sustainable over the medium term. The peso closed 0.46% weaker at 36.65 per U.S. dollar. The currency has fallen 0.30% against the dollar this week, although it has climbed 12.63% since the beginning of the month.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

  Maximo Kirchner appeared in court but refused to answer questions

  

  Argentine national deputy Máximo Kirchner and eldest son of former presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, appeared in court on Tuesday morning to testify in the so-called ‘notebooks’ corruption case, probing the alleged payments of millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks siphoned off from public works projects.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 07:15 UTC

  Argentina reports trade surplus in September, the first since December 2016

  

  Argentina had a trade surplus of US$ 314 million in September, official statistics agency Indec said on Tuesday, the first since December 2016 and an early sign the devaluation of the peso currency has benefited the country’s exporters.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 17:51 UTC

  Argentina hopeful about Mercosur-EU deal at G-20 Summit

  

  Argentine Production and Labour Minister Dante Sica Monday said in Madrid he was confident the European Union and the South American Mercosur trade bloc would reach an agreement “as soon as possible,” hopefully by the G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires in late November.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 15:24 UTC

  Aerolíneas Argentinas produces flight 1303 black box before judge

  

  The black box of Aerolineas Argentinas' flight 1303 from Miami where 15 passengers ended up injured Thursday due to an abrupt descent as the Airbus 330-200 aircraft wound up amid severe turbulence was handed over Monday to the judge investigating the incident.