Argentina

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 09:01 UTC

  Argentine Senate votes 37 to 30 to freeze utility rates; Macri expected to veto the bill

  

  Following twelve hours of heated and at time acrimonious debate the Argentine Senate on early Thursday voted, 37 to 30, to freeze utility prices. President Mauricio Macri had anticipated that if the bill was passed he would veto it because there is no way the budget can stand an additional 1% of GDP deficit.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentine military to have a greater role in combating drug-trafficking

  

  Argentina’s Armed Forces will soon play a bigger role in the fight against drug-trafficking and terrorism, as the president Mauricio Macri administration looks to assigning new responsibilities to the military in domestic and border security.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 07:47 UTC

  Argentine forensic team identify remains of another combatant buried in the Falklands

  

  The remains of yet another Argentine combatant fallen during the Falklands conflict in 1982, and buried at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin, have been identified bringing the number to 91, out of a total of 121 only a year ago.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 07:11 UTC

  Coca Cola supports Macri with US$ 1.2bn, 2019/2021, investment pledge

  

  Coca-Cola announced it would increase its investments in Argentina over the next three years, giving embottled President Mauricio Macri’s government a boost at a difficult time.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Argentina set to expand fresh beef exports to Japan and China

  

  Argentina is set to expand fresh beef exports to Asia, with Japan and China having already approved import deals, the country's agriculture minister said. Luis Miguel Etchevehere in Tokyo said that Argentina has signed a deal with the Japanese government under which Tokyo will authorize imports of fresh beef from Argentina by late July. His country has also inked a beef export agreement with Beijing.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  The Way Out of Argentina’s New Crisis

  

  The late MIT economist Rüdiger Dornbusch used to tell his students in the 1980s that there are four kinds of countries: rich, poor, Japan, and Argentina. No one frets anymore about Japan buying its way to world domination. But the world is worrying again about Argentina.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 08:09 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine cabinet chief will honor fallen British combatants, at St. Paul's cathedral

  

  Argentine cabinet chief Marcos Peña will be honoring the British combatants fallen during the South Atlantic conflict when he travels to the UK. The ceremony is scheduled for next 4 June at St Paul's cathedral in London

• Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 08:06 UTC

  Argentina increases export tax on biodiesel to 15% from 8%

  

  The Argentine government is raising an export tax on biodiesel to 15% from 8%, effective July 1, according to a decree published in the official Gazette on Monday. Argentina is one of the world's top providers of biodiesel fuel, exporting 1.65 million tons in 2017, but it has been hit by retaliatory tariffs in recent years.

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 09:11 UTC

  IMF/Argentina discussions to stabilize the economy are “progressing well”

  

  “We are really moving ahead and we have committed to President Macri that we will do the best we can in order to move expeditiously and efficiently in order to change the perception about Argentina and the perception that people have about our role,” Ms Lagarde said in Russia.

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentine church independence message: sigh of relief for embattled Macri

  

  A sigh of relief from Argentine president Mauricio Macri and his administration following on Friday's Tedeum by the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, which marks the Church' message on May 25, the symbolic celebration of the first independence efforts during the 1810 Revolution.