Argentina

• Saturday, March 31st 2018 - 21:23 UTC

  Retail sales shift in Chile as revenues from articles attractive to Argentines drop

  

  Traditional items keep the retail business going in Santiago's Metropolitan area as sales of articles such as computers, TVs, clothing and sportswear go down as a consequence of a smaller flow of Argentine tourists this past Summer of 2018.

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 22:16 UTC

  A humanitarian triumph in the aftermath of war

  

  By Nicholas Tozer -Buenos Aires.
  THE visit by over two hundred of Argentine next-of-kin to the Argentine Military Cemetery in Darwin in East Falkland earlier this week undoubtedly marks a new milestone in the so-often troubled relations between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands dispute.

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 07:04 UTC

  The Economist: Uruguay less dependent on Argentina, Brazil

  

  The British publication The Economist praised Uruguay's progress and underlined its decreasing dependency from giant neighbours Brazil and Argentina.

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 04:07 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine families visit graves of previously unidentified soldiers

  

  As readers of Penguin News will be aware, the project leading to the identification of 90 of the 121 previously unidentified soldiers whose graves are found in the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin faced many difficulties.

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 03:08 UTC

  Odebrecht finds legal loophole to sue Argentine water supplier AySA

  

  The Brazilian firm Odebrecht, under investigation in 12 countries for bribing government officials, has found a loophole in Argentina's legal system to sue state-owned water supplier AySA.

• Thursday, March 29th 2018 - 14:19 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine professor visits Stanley and offers proposal to “end the dispute”

  

  Argentine Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva, Marcelo Kohen, has studied disputes and resolutions in different parts of the world. Last Monday Kohen was in the Falkland Islands and at a public meeting in Stanley, he presented a proposal to put “an end to the dispute”.

• Wednesday, March 28th 2018 - 22:08 UTC

  Remains of ancient sloth unearthed by landslide in Mar del Plata

  

  Local natural science museum handles yet a new finding of bones from the Chapadmalalense Age in the area.

• Saturday, March 24th 2018 - 07:17 UTC

  Argentina pays homage to UK military officer for helping identify soldiers fallen in 1982

  

  Families of Argentine soldiers killed in the 1982 South Atlantic conflict with Britain have paid homage to a former British army officer who helped recover and rebury with dignity and precision their loved ones in a Falkland Islands cemetery, which would become the Argentine military cemetery or memorial.

• Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Argentina expanded 2.9% last year; 2018 challenging given the persistent drought effect on crops

  

  Argentina's economy expanded 2.9% in 2017 from the prior year and 3.9% in the fourth quarter versus the same period in 2016, the Indec statistics agency said this week. The year-over-year figure was slightly above the 2.8% annual growth rate given last month by Argentina's monthly economic activity indicator, seen as a proxy for gross domestic product.

• Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  “Malouines to Malvinas” exhibition in Ushuaia Museum

  

  Next Thursday the Ushuaia museum in Tierra del Fuego will open an exhibition titled “From Malouines to Malvinas”, depicting history since the French occupation of the Falklands in the XVIIIth century to the first Argentine governor of the Islands.