Argentina

• Wednesday, November 1st 2017 - 07:17 UTC

  Terrorist attack in Manhattan kills five Argentine tourists

  

  Five of those killed after a terrorist plowed a truck through a Manhattan bike path in New York were Argentine high school pals celebrating three decades of friendship. The Argentine government identified the slain victims as Hernán Mendoza, Diego Angelini, Alejandro Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernan Ferruchi.

• Tuesday, October 31st 2017 - 07:50 UTC

  Argentina's top prosecutor resigns, under pressure of corruption charges

  

  Argentina’s top prosecutor quit on Monday under pressure from the government over accusations that she hampered corruption investigations into officials from the previous administration of President Cristina Fernandez.

• Tuesday, October 31st 2017 - 07:43 UTC

  Macri vows reforms to lower taxes and achieve fiscal balance

  

  Argentina's President Mauricio Macri vowed to press ahead with reforms to the country's tax, labor and retirement systems in a speech on Monday, a week after his “Let's Change” coalition swept to victory at the polls in midterm elections.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 09:59 UTC

  Macri will present his government's plan for the next two years, supported on governance accords

  

  A week after his coalition's sweeping victory in the midterm elections, Argentine president Mauricio Macri will present this Monday the economic and institutional reforms which are to the core of reaching “governance basic accords”.

• Saturday, October 28th 2017 - 07:58 UTC

  Argentina formally protests Rapier missile exercise in the Falklands

  

  Argentina presented on Thursday a formal protest to the United Kingdom embassy in Buenos Aires rejecting the military exercises with Rapier missiles in the Falkland Islands, scheduled to take place next week.

• Friday, October 27th 2017 - 09:24 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez testifies in alleged cover up of deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history

  

  Ex Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has denied in court that she covered up for Iranians accused of involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in which 85 people were killed.

• Friday, October 27th 2017 - 08:51 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego project in Falklands programmed for failure

  

  A project investigating the potential for trade between the Falklands and Argentina appears to have involved a dearth of research.

• Friday, October 27th 2017 - 08:24 UTC

  “Macri is the New Left; PC no longer means Communist Party, it means Personal Computer”

  

  Argentina's ruling coalition “Let's Change” sweeping victory in last Sunday's midterm elections, which had a special chapter in the province of Buenos Aires, was “one of the toughest” ever, and defeated ex president Cristina Fernandez performance was “meritorious”.

• Friday, October 27th 2017 - 07:57 UTC

  Some thoughts about Falklands and flying the Union Jack

  

  By John Fowler - It’s no good if the Falkland Islanders just keep on saying that they don’t want to be Argentine; you can’t define yourself in terms of a negative, you must decide what or who you want to be and proclaim it positively.”

• Thursday, October 26th 2017 - 06:49 UTC

  YPF unveils ambitious US$ 30bn five-year investment plan

  

  Argentina's state-controlled energy company YPF has unveiled a US$ 30bn five-year investment plan to boost oil production and sharpen its focus on electric power generation. Some US$21.5bn will come from YPF's own coffers, with the remainder to be sourced from its project partners, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.