Argentina

• Thursday, May 24th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Dollar/Peso challenge: Argentina offers to swap one-month Lebacs for long term papers

  

  Argentina’s central bank moved on Wednesday to improve its debt profile by offering to swap some of its one-month Lebac securities for paper of longer duration, the bank said in a statement.

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2018 - 08:18 UTC

  Ushuaia 2017/18 cruise season “excellent”; provincial funds to upgrade port and city facilities

  

  Ushuaia received 120.000 visitors and 33.000 crew members this last cruise season which totaled 332 calls, according to the results made public by the mayor of Tierra del Fuego's capital, Walter Vuoto.

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2018 - 06:55 UTC

  Johnson and Faurie agree to advance relations, despite the Falklands dispute

  

  British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that relations with Argentina will continue to grow despite the nations’ dispute over the Falkland Islands sovereignty. Argentina still claims the Islands that it calls the Malvinas. Britain says the Falklands are a self-governing British Overseas Territory under its protection, confirmed by a 2013 referendum.

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2018 - 06:16 UTC

  (Brexit) UK and Argentina on the same intelligent reinsertion to the global community

  

  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson forecasted a “new, exciting phase” in Anglo-Argentine relations as he wrapped up his visit to Buenos Aires. Johnson visited Argentina to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers summit. His visit was the first by a British Foreign Secretary in over 20 years.

• Monday, May 21st 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  Foreign Secretary honors Argentine fallen during the Falklands conflict in Buenos Aires

  

  British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Sunday laid a wreath to honor Argentine soldiers fallen while fighting the British in the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict. Johnson, who is in Buenos Aires for a Group of 20 meeting, visited the Monument of the Fallen Soldiers on Sunday along with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie.

• Saturday, May 19th 2018 - 06:26 UTC

  Boris Johnson will be the first Foreign Secretary to visit Argentina in 15 years

  

  Boris Johnson is to make the first visit by a British foreign secretary to Argentina for 25 years. Mr. Johnson will seek to take advantage of the improvement in relations with Buenos Aires since President Mauricio Macri came to power in 2015.President Macri has talked of lifting curbs on oil, fishing and shipping around the Falkland Islands as tensions eased.

• Friday, May 18th 2018 - 07:49 UTC

  IMF confirms support for Macri, but also with greater focus on social protection

  

  The International Monetary Fund will move quickly to agree on a loan program to support Argentina but there are no details yet on what it will entail, a fund spokesman said on Thursday. However spokesperson Gerry Rice also underlined that the IMF nowadays has a greater focus on social protection, in particular towards the most vulnerable, ensuring the economy and living standards.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 10:38 UTC

  “Gauchos in Malvinas”, part of Falklands' history is a collection of watercolors

  

  “Gauchos in Malvinas” is the title of the book launched at the recent Buenos Aires Book show which is mainly a collection of water colors by William Dale, painted in 1852 when he spent time in the Falkland Islands. He was the son of John Pownall Dale, at the time General Manager of the Falkland Islands Company, and his paintings are considered a unique and only testimony of the gauchos in the Falklands.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  The dollar falls in Argentina while in Uruguay the rise “does not worry”

  

  The recent rise of the dollar in Argentina had some impact in Uruguay, where it has an accumulation of 7.4% in May. However, for the president of the Central Bank of Uruguay, Mario Bergara, the escalation only owes 20% to the exchange rate in Argentina and rather considers that Uruguay is accompanying global trends.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  World Cup advice for Argentine media: “How to stand a chance with a Russian girl”

  

  The Argentine Football Association (AFA) has been criticized for including a chapter about “how to stand a chance with a Russian girl” in a manual it handed to journalists travelling to the World Cup in Russia. It recommended that journalists “look clean, smell nice and dress well” in order to impress Russian “girls”.