Argentina

• 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.

• 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.