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Montevideo, November 24th 2025 - 15:39 UTC

Argentina

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

    Macri anticipates sweeping tax, education and labor reforms

    The conservative leader has been pushing a free-market reform agenda to overhaul Argentina's struggling economy.

    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

    Two project researchers spent the second week of this month in the Falklands, collecting information on the potential of goods and services provision to the Islands

    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

    The Zaandam will be arriving in Buenos Aires on Saturday. The 2017/18 season is expected to last until 24 April 2018

    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

    With 98% of ballots counted, Macri’s former education minister, Esteban Bullrich, had 41.34% versus 37.27% for Cristina Fernandez in Buenos Aires province

    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

    “We could look at body and recognize tattoos of Santiago. We are convinced that it is Santiago”, declared his elder brother, Sergio.

    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

    Santiago Maldonado, a 28-year-old tattoo artist, was last seen being detained by paramilitary police as they moved to disperse a protest by the Mapuche people

    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.

  • Friday, October 20th 2017 - 06:03 UTC

    A Rose for Peace presented the Falklands by Argentine students

    The Rose for Peace made from shell casings metal with the engraved names of the three civilian ladies killed as a result of accidental fire from a British warship

    The large number of Argentine visitors to the Falkland Islands this week included pupils of the Don Bosco College in Ensenada. Having spent the first full day of their stay visiting the military cemeteries at Darwin and San Carlos where they paid tribute to the fallen of both sides in 1982, on Monday the group, whose visit was arranged in conjunction with the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, was given a presentation on the Falklands by the FIG Policy Department.

  • Thursday, October 19th 2017 - 07:52 UTC

    Election campaign suspended in Argentina following discovery of a body presumed to be missing protestor

    A government spokeswoman said Macri’s Let’s Change coalition would halt campaigning for the day after the discovery of a body in the Chubut river

    Major parties running in Sunday’s mid-term congressional election in Argentina suspended their campaigns on Wednesday after a body, thought to be that of a young protester who went missing more than two months ago, was found in a river.

  • Thursday, October 19th 2017 - 07:47 UTC

    Judges order arrest of a key official from Cristina Fernandez on alleged fraud

    De Vido, who as planning minister was in charge of running energy infrastructure projects, is under investigation in a case involving the coal mine of Rio Turbio

    Three Argentine judges ordered that a key official in former President Cristina Fernandez's government be detained as part of a probe into an alleged case of fraud. The request to detain former planning minister and current lawmaker Julio De Vido comes five days before the country's parliamentary elections in which Fernandez is seeking a Senate seat.

  • Wednesday, October 18th 2017 - 12:03 UTC

    Political spring ahead for Macri, if opinion polls results are confirmed on Sunday

    Macri's Let's Change coalition is expected to its increase Deputies representation from 81 to almost 105, and from 15 to 24 Senators, a third of the Upper House

    Argentine president Mauricio Macri seems to be in the threshold of a new political spring following on the expected results of next Sunday's midterm election when a third of the Senate seats and half the Lower House, plus several governorships will be on dispute.