Argentina

• 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.

• Thursday, October 26th 2017 - 06:16 UTC

  Key ex minister of Cristina Fernandez and Nestor Kirchner jailed on corruption charges

  

  Julio De Vido, an ex-minister in former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's government, was jailed after turning himself in to authorities on Wednesday, marking an anti-corruption milestone in a country known for impunity.

• Thursday, October 26th 2017 - 02:26 UTC

  World wine production at its lowest in 50 years; Europe hard hit, but Argentina will see 25% increase

  

  World wine production is having a historically bad year. Europe, home to the world's leading wine producers, is making wine at significantly lower levels than usual – and that's because of “extreme weather events” such as frost and drought that have damaged vineyards, according to the International Organization of Vine and Wine, (OIV)

• Wednesday, October 25th 2017 - 10:02 UTC

  Macri reminds cabinet “more votes, means more responsibilities”

  

  “I'm not that happy, more votes means more responsibilities”, Argentine president Mauricio Macri told his ministers when they applauded him on entering the first cabinet meeting following on Sunday's victory of the ruling coalition, Let's Change in the midterm elections.

• Tuesday, October 24th 2017 - 06:34 UTC

  Macri anticipates sweeping tax, education and labor reforms

  

  President Mauricio Macri said on Monday he will seek more sweeping reforms for Argentina after his governing coalition scored a resounding victory in congressional elections. Macri's center-right coalition remains a minority in both houses of Congress.

• Tuesday, October 24th 2017 - 06:23 UTC

  Argentine university researches Falklands/Tierra del Fuego trade relations

  

  Goods and services relations between the Malvinas Islands and adjacent areas with the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, is the name of a project launched by the Tierra del Fuego national university Economic and Innovation Department, and which included a field research in the Falkland Islands, according to the Ushuaia media.

• Tuesday, October 24th 2017 - 06:22 UTC

  Buenos Aires cruise season takes off next Saturday; 320.000 visitors expected

  

  Next Saturday the Holland America cruise Zaandam is expected in Buenos Aires signaling the start of the 2017/18 season, which according to Argentine officials is going to be the best following on four years of sustained retraction. So far the number of docking requests include 110 calls with an estimated number of 320.000 visitors, although there are possibilities the final figure, by 24 April 2018, could reach 328.000.

• Monday, October 23rd 2017 - 06:25 UTC

  Sweeping victory for Macri consolidating his reform plans and 2019 reelection bid

  

  Candidates allied with Argentine President Mauricio Macri enjoyed sweeping victories in Sunday’s mid-term election, strengthening his position in Congress while dimming prospects for a political comeback by his predecessor Cristina Fernandez. free-spending populist who nearly bankrupted the country during her 2007-2015 rule.

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 18:00 UTC

  Autopsy shows body found is missing Santiago Maldonado and has no signs of violence

  

  The corpse found in Chubut River, in Argentine Patagonia, is Santiago Maldonado, it was confirmed late Friday by family members who recognized his body tattoos. Santiago lived in El Bolsón, a paradise for hippies in middle of Patagonia, precisely tattooing or living of small handicrafts in close contact with the Mapuche indigenous people who are in conflict with landowners and in recurrent clashes with security forces.

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 07:05 UTC

  Family confirm body recovered in Argentine Patagonia is that of missing activist

  

  The body recovered from a river bed in southern Argentina is that of a missing activist who disappeared two months ago during a police operation, his brother confirmed on Friday. Santiago Maldonado, a 28-year-old tattoo artist, was last seen being detained by paramilitary police as they moved to disperse a protest march by the Mapuche indigenous group in the Patagonia Chubut province, on August first.