Argentina

• Monday, November 27th 2017 - 06:41 UTC

  Argentine police shoot dead a Mapuche during an eviction operation in Patagonia

  

  Police clashed with a group of Mapuche during an operation to clear lands seized by members of the indigenous community, and one young Mapuche was killed and two were injured, Argentina's government said on Sunday.

• Saturday, November 25th 2017 - 23:13 UTC

  Russian naval specialists arrive in Ushuaia to help with missing submarine search

  

  An Antonov-124 Ruslan airlifter has flown a team of Russian naval specialists to Argentina where they will join the efforts to rescue the distressed submarine, ARA San Juan missing since November 15. Argentine channel Todo Noticias aired the footage of the jet’s landing.

• Saturday, November 25th 2017 - 08:21 UTC

  Macri promises the truth about what happened with the missing submarine

  

  President Mauricio Macri on Friday ordered an inquiry to ‘know the truth’ about what happened to Argentina's missing submarine, ARA San Juan, which disappeared with the loss of its 44 crew. The 34-year-old submarine had gone through a refit and was ‘in perfect condition,’ Macri told reporters at the Argentine navy headquarters.

• Friday, November 24th 2017 - 17:55 UTC

  Buenos Aires City generates half of Argentina's travel and tourism GDP

  

  Buenos Aires generates over a half of Argentina´s Travel & Tourism GDP, revealed a new report by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), Latin America City Travel & Tourism Impact. Latin America City Travel & Tourism Impact is one of a series of reports by WTTC which looks at the contribution of Travel & Tourism to city economies and job creation. The study covers 65 cities, six of which are in Latin America.

• Friday, November 24th 2017 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentine minister admits inflation will end 2017 at 21%

  

  Argentina's inflation rate will likely end the year above 21%, Treasury Minister Nicolas Dujovne told reporters on Thursday. The government previously estimated that consumer prices in Latin America's third-biggest economy would rise 17% in 2017.

• Friday, November 24th 2017 - 08:58 UTC

  Argentine submarine crew families have been told their loved ones “are all dead”

  

  Families of crew lost in the Argentine ARA San Juan submarine have been told their loved ones “are all dead” after an explosion on the day the vessel disappeared, according to reports. Family members claimed on Thursday they had already received phone calls from Navy officials telling them the entire crew had perished in a blast, believed to have taken place between 180m and 900m below the surface.

• Friday, November 24th 2017 - 08:28 UTC

  Falklands: next month Argentine families will know results of DNA tests at Darwin cemetery

  

  The humanitarian mission to identify the Argentine unknown soldiers fallen during the South Atlantic conflict and buried in the Falkland Islands Darwin cemetery is reaching its end, and many families will finally know, after 35 years, where the remains of their loved ones rest, according to the Buenos Aires media.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2017 - 08:29 UTC

  Missing submarine search returns to the point where the last contacts were made

  

  Ships and planes hunting for the missing Argentine submarine with 44 crew members will return to a previous search area after officials said Wednesday that a noise made a week ago in the South Atlantic could provide a clue to the vessel’s location.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2017 - 08:19 UTC

  Putin talks to Macri and sends a oceanographic vessel to help with the search

  

  Russia has agreed to dispatch an oceanographic ship to Argentina in order to help with the search for the missing Argentine submarine, ARA San Juan, the Argentine Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday following a telephone conversation between Russian and Argentine presidents Vladimir Putin and Mauricio Macri.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2017 - 07:02 UTC

  Time and oxygen running out for Argentine missing submarine in the South Atlantic

  

  Ships and planes combed a wider area of the stormy South Atlantic on Tuesday in a fruitless hunt for signs of a missing Argentine submarine, adding to growing concerns about the vessel not heard from in six days. Argentine navy officials have worried that if the ARA San Juan was intact but disabled underwater, its crew of 44 might have only enough oxygen to last seven days.