Argentina

Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 09:16 UTC
Argentine industrial activity contracts 4.1% in August year-to-year

Industrial activity in Argentina dropped 4.1% in August compared to a year ago, completing a 0.8% contraction so far this year, according to a survey by the country's Industrial Union, UIA. However compared to last July industrial production was up 0.7%.
Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 08:24 UTC
Jamaican economist will oversee Argentina's compliance of IMF accord

The International Monetary Fund has announced that Jamaican economist Trevor Alleyne will be the institution's representative in Argentina, after confirming it had decided to reopen an office in Buenos Aires, six years after leaving. The decision comes after Buenos Aires reached a deal with the IMF on the money supply, interest rates and an exchange rate framework.
Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 08:08 UTC
Falklands announces winners of the student competition to visit the Islands

The Falkland Islands Government and the British Embassies in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile announce the winners of the 2018-2019 student competition to visit the Falkland Islands.
Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 01:24 UTC
US dollar falls for seventh time in a row against Argentine peso, but inflation still among five worst

The US dollar fell Tuesday yet again, making it the seventh straight time the peso manages to recover due to the government's “cash-drought” measures. But that did not change the fact that According to the International Monetary Fund’s latest report, Argentina will have the fifth highest inflation rate in the world, which is expected to reach 41.5 by the end of the year..
Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 19:13 UTC
Crash course for first-time passengers to overcome aviophobia helps AR increase sales

The “Animate a volar” programme, offered at no cost by Aerolineas Argentinas to people who suffer from aviophobia (flight fear) is one of the keys to the company's increase in ticket sales in the first three quarters of 2018, it was announced.
Saturday, October 13th 2018 - 12:46 UTC
Court of appeals upholds prison sentences for Menem and Cavallo

A Court of Appeals Friday upheld a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for former Argentine President Carlos Menem for undue bonuses paid to government officials during his administration. His then Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo was sentenced to three and a half years.
Saturday, October 13th 2018 - 08:15 UTC
Falklands: forensic team identifies remains of the 101th Argentine combatant

The Argentine government announced on Friday that the number of identified combatants fallen during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict and whose remains are buried in the Falkland Islands has risen to 101. That means 101 gravestones at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin now have a full name.
Saturday, October 13th 2018 - 08:02 UTC
Uruguay and Argentina elected to the UN Human Rights Council

The General Assembly on Friday elected 18 States to the Human Rights Council, the United Nations body responsible for promoting and protecting all human rights around the globe, among which Uruguay and Argentina.
Friday, October 12th 2018 - 22:06 UTC
Carcigenous BA underground trains to be scrapped

Used underground trains purchased from Spain for Buenos Aires' B Line in 2011 are now to be scrapped after finding they were made of an alloy containing carcigenous asbestos.
Friday, October 12th 2018 - 14:36 UTC
Argentine security minister draws spotlight on complicity between social leaders and drug rings

Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich Thursday took aim before Congress at an alleged complicity between “certain social movements” and drug trafficking in villas de emergencia (shanty towns).