Argentina

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 11:02 UTC

  Federal Judge Griesa who presided over Argentina's dispute with hedge funds, has died

  

  A New York federal judge who drew the ire of Argentine government officials in a long-running case over Argentina’s debts has died. Judge Thomas P. Griesa was 87, and spent 45 years on the federal bench.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 09:36 UTC

  Moody's expects Argentine economic recovery in 2018 and 2019

  

  Credit risk rating agency Moody's expects Argentina's economic recovery to continue in 2018 and 2019, helped by the reforms advanced by the Mauricio Macri's administration in the last two years.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 08:21 UTC

  It's official: Nisman was murdered, and his ex secretary is charged as accessory to the crime

  

  Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who was found dead days after accusing former President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center, was murdered, a federal judge said on Tuesday

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 08:05 UTC

  Argentine demanding US$ 1.2bn compensation from Cristina Fernandez and cronies

  

  The Argentine government is demanding compensations of over 1.2 billion US dollars from ex president Cristina Fernandez, several of her ministers and staff, as well as businessmen benefitted by the Kirchner administrations, for damages caused by acts of corruption.

• Sunday, December 24th 2017 - 11:46 UTC

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• Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 12:34 UTC

  Indictment and preventive imprisonment of Cristina Fernandez confirmed by federal court

  

  An Argentine Federal Court in Buenos Aires City confirmed the indictment and preventive imprisonment of ex president Cristina Fernandez, one of several defendants under investigation for the alleged cover up of the attack against a Jewish organization, by signing a memorandum of understanding with Teheran considered the culprit of the 1994 carnage which cost 85 lives and hundreds injured.

• Friday, December 22nd 2017 - 11:02 UTC

  Macri sends message to the Venezuelan people and demands respect for human rights

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri in Brasilia expressed full solidarity with the Venezuelan people, called for human rights respect and freedom for the political prisoners held by the regime of president Nicolas Maduro.

• Friday, December 22nd 2017 - 09:56 UTC

  Argentina: Approval of reform bills triggers markets

  

  Merval, the main index of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, rose 1.51% Thursday, closing at 28,494.01 points - close to exceeding the maximum of the year, by 28,500 points. The Argentine stocks were driven by the approval of the pension and tax reforms passed this week in the House of Representatives.

• Thursday, December 21st 2017 - 10:05 UTC

  President Maduro “cries” for Argentina and pledges to work for the people

  

  The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, condemned the repression carried out by the Argentine security forces of president Mauricio Macri during the debate in Congress of the pensions' reform system, and underlined that the television reports from Buenos Aires called on him to work ever harder for the benefit of the people.

• Thursday, December 21st 2017 - 09:34 UTC

  Argentina's tax reform bill passed in the Lower House by 146 to 77 votes

  

  Argentina’s business-friendly President Mauricio Macri continued his year-end legislative winning streak on Wednesday when the lower House of Congress approved his plan for cutting corporate income and employer social security taxes.