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Montevideo, November 24th 2025 - 16:43 UTC

Argentina

  • Thursday, August 9th 2018 - 07:13 UTC

    Parana River low water level increasing freight costs for cereal transport

    The Parana is used to transport some 80% of Argentina’s agricultural and agro-industrial exports but a drought in south Brazil has dropped its level

    Large grain transport ships using Argentine’s port hub of Rosario have had to reduce their cargo by between 3,200 and 4,300 tons because of an unusually low water level in the Parana River, the Rosario grains exchange said this week.

  • Thursday, August 9th 2018 - 07:02 UTC

    Argentina expecting a bumper 2018/19 wheat crop of some 20m tons

    A bumper crop would come at a time of shrinking global supplies, with bad weather hurting crops in regions like Europe, Australia, Canada and the Black Sea

    Argentine farmers are finishing this year's wheat sowing, helped by moist soils and cold weather that is prolonging the vegetative stage of crops, raising hopes of high yields and a record harvest, growers and analysts said on Wednesday. Cold Southern Hemisphere winter weather allows seedlings to grow more sprigs per plant. Harvesting starts in November.

  • Wednesday, August 8th 2018 - 06:33 UTC

    Abortion debate: the “blue camp” trusts it has 37 votes (out of 72) in the Senate

    Senator Martinez anticipated the “blue camp” already has sufficient votes in the Senate to win a majority and reject the bill

    An Argentine ruling coalition Senator predicted that the decriminalization abortion bill that will be debated on Wednesday in the upper House, will be rejected since the so called “negative position will triumph”. Ernesto Martinez, who represents the province of Cordoba and supports the bill, said that the “blue camp” had already got enough votes to win a majority.

  • Wednesday, August 8th 2018 - 06:20 UTC

    Amnesty makes abortion decriminalization debate in Argentina a worldwide issue

    An image of a coat-hanger, a stark symbol long-associated with unsafe and clandestine abortions, will highlight the deadly consequences of the current law

    Amnesty International has taken out a provocative advert that will appear in 134 countries on the eve of the vote to decriminalize abortion in Argentina. An image of a coat-hanger, a stark symbol long-associated with unsafe and clandestine abortions, will highlight the deadly consequences of the current law, and remind Senators that they have the power to save many lives by voting to decriminalize abortion.

  • Wednesday, August 8th 2018 - 06:02 UTC

    Argentine ex-vice president Boudou sentenced to five years and ten months in prison

    A court found Amado Boudou 55, guilty of “passive bribery” and conduct “incompatible” with his duties as a public servant

    Argentina's former vice president, Amado Boudou, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of corruption while serving under former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The charges related to Boudou's attempt to buy a company that printed currency through a front business while serving as Cristina Fernández economy minister.

  • Tuesday, August 7th 2018 - 11:02 UTC

    Argentine and Brazilian prosecution reach a deal on “Operation Car Wash”

    The move should quicken prosecutions related to the sprawling investigation into kickbacks offered by companies for government projects

    Argentina's main prosecutor's office said it has reached a deal with its Brazilian counterpart to use testimony reached through plea bargains in the “Operation Car Wash” corruption case in local graft investigations.

  • Tuesday, August 7th 2018 - 07:01 UTC

    Construction executives confirm bribe payments in exchange for contracts under Kirchner governments

    Angelo Calcaterra and cousin of president Macri is the latest executive to speak with prosecutors in the case of the corruption notebooks

    Argentine prosecutors questioned a construction executive related to President Mauricio Macri on Monday as part of a sprawling investigation into bribe payments made to the former government. Angelo Calcaterra, the former head of construction company Iecsa and Macri’s cousin, told prosecutors he was told by officials in former President Cristina Fernandez’ administration to pay cash in exchange for public works contracts.

  • Saturday, August 4th 2018 - 12:35 UTC

    Argentina's industrial output was down 8.1% in the twelve months to June

    June marked the second straight month of declines after 12 straight months of industrial expansion

    Argentina’s industrial output plunged 8.1% in June compared with the same month last year, government statistics agency Indec said, the sharpest monthly drop since the country was in the grips of an economic meltdown in 2002.

  • Friday, August 3rd 2018 - 11:33 UTC

    Argentine judge is requesting Congress to strip Cristina Fernandez of parliamentary immunity

    Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been ordered to appear before Bonadio on August 13 for questioning.

    Argentine Federal judge Claudio Bonadio will present a formal request to Congress to strip ex president and Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of her parliamentary immunity. Bonadio's move against CFK, for which she risks immediate arrest, is part of an investigation into an alleged giant bribery and corruption ring that spanned over a decade of the Kirchner couple's rule and involves high-profile businesspeople, politicians and magistrates.

  • Friday, August 3rd 2018 - 11:30 UTC

    Argentine Senate will vote on the abortion bill next Wednesday

    Pro-choice campaigners had hoped to modify the bill, in order to win the support of senators that remain undecided over how they will vote

    The Argentine Senate finally approved the text of a bill to legalize abortion that will be put to a vote on August 8 in the upper chamber. As approved by Congress' lower house Chamber of Deputies on June 14, the bill sent to the Senate decriminalizes abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy and provides for conscientious objection for practitioners, but not for hospitals.