Argentina

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Ocean Infinity seabed survey company to begin looking for ARA San Juan next month

  

  United States based seabed survey company Ocean Infinity hopes to begin searching for the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan (S-42) in September. The announcement was made by Argentine defense minister Oscar Aguad.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 07:14 UTC

  US has offered to collaborate with the Argentine investigation of “K corruption notebooks”

  

  According to Buenos Aires daily Clarin, United States authorities have offered to collaborate with Argentine President Mauricio Macri’s government in the ongoing “K notebook scandal” by providing confidential information on a number of US bank accounts used to hold alleged Kirchner bribe money.

• Monday, August 27th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

  Files on Judges and political enemies found at Cristina Fernandez house in El Calafate

  

  A third day of search at ex president Cristina Fernandez' property in the Patagonian resort of El Calafate did not seem to deliver much in terms of money or valuables, despite a thorough inspection of the house, as part of the of a major corruption case involving Argentina's business elite and ex government officials.

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 18:14 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil agree to merge car production regulations

  

  Argentine and Brazilian representatives on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding to begin merging vehicle production regulations of both countries.

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 04:35 UTC

  Argentina's Peso falls 1.42% on Friday, despite a weaker dollar following Fed's Powell speech

  

  Argentina’s peso currency fell 1.42% to a record low close of 30.92 per dollar on Friday, weighed down by an economy slipping into recession, high inflation and uncertainty driven by corruption investigations.

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 02:35 UTC

  Macri blames the lack of infrastructure to rampant corruption under the Kirchners

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri linked the poor state of the country's infrastructure to the so called “K corruption notebooks”, but also praised that truth is coming to light and in just two years Argentina's standing in the Transparency rating had gone from position 54 to 17.

• Friday, August 24th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Latin American growth lowered to 1.5% this year, in a “complex global scenario”

  

  Latin America's economic growth is set to come in lower than expected this year, as US protectionism and widespread wariness of emerging markets put a drag on the region, a UN panel said Thursday. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) slashed its growth forecast for the region by 0.7 point to 1.5%, saying the “complex global scenario” had dimmed the outlook since its last report in April.

• Friday, August 24th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Corruption scandal: Police searched homes of ex Argentine president Cristina Fernandez

  

  Police accompanied by sniffer dogs searched the homes of Argentina's former president Cristina Kirchner on Thursday as the investigation intensified into the so-called “notebooks” corruption scandal that has rocked the country.

• Friday, August 24th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Argentina’s economy contracts in June for the third month running

  

  Argentina’s economy contracted 6.7% in June compared with the same month last year, and 1.3% compared with May, government statistics agency Indec said on Thursday. June was the third consecutive month of decline following 5.2% in May and 0.6% in April.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Argentine Senate unanimously approves raids on properties from ex president Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina's Senators have approved a judge's request for authorities to carry out raids on properties owned by former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, as part of a case investigating widespread corruption. Cristina Fernandez is currently a senator and was one of the 67 lawmakers who voted unanimously in favor of the motion.