Argentina

• Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 08:54 UTC

  Royal Mint will supply Argentina with 150 million Peso coin blanks

  

  UK’s Royal Mint will supply Argentina with 150 million peso coins, after the institution won a contract to assist with the minting of a new coin series. Announced on social media by UK chancellor Philip Hammond, the mint will work closely with its Argentine counterpart – Sociedad del Estado Casa de Moneda – to produce blanks for the new coin series.

• Monday, August 7th 2017 - 16:03 UTC

  Falkland/Malvinas Islands: Forensic field work to identify remains of Argentine soldiers comes to an end

  

  During seven weeks of intense work, which began on 20 June, a team of 14 specialists – from Argentina, Australia, Chile, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – exhumed, analysed, sampled and documented the remains of each of the unidentified soldiers. The work was carried out in a high-tech temporary mortuary built on-site for the purposes of the operation.

• Monday, August 7th 2017 - 06:27 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner/Macri dispute Buenos Aires province Senate seat

  

  With less than a week to the Argentine primaries next Sunday to chose candidates for the October midterm election, the dispute in the province of Buenos Aires which concentrates 35% of the national electorate is particularly interesting as decisive since ex president Cristina Fernandez has good chances of winning the Senate bench.

• Friday, August 4th 2017 - 06:31 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez could become Senator, but overall Macri will have a stronger block in congress

  

  With less than two weeks for the PASO compulsory primaries in Argentina, in anticipation of the October midterm elections, the ruling political party of president Mauricio Macri “Let us change”, is expected to come out in “a better position”, whether it wins or loses with the revival of Kirchnerism.

• Thursday, August 3rd 2017 - 06:50 UTC

  Hammond and Macri agree to expand trade, investment and building closer links

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri received on Wednesday Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, who had anticipated the purpose of the visit was to deepen UK-Argentine economic partnership and address political issues of common interest, such as the 2018 G20 summit and Argentina's aspiration to join OECD.

• Wednesday, August 2nd 2017 - 07:59 UTC

  The Buenos Aires Herald, part of Argentina's history folds after more than 140 years

  

  The Buenos Aires Herald, a long established English-language newspaper lauded for its coverage of Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship, will close after more than 140 years of publication, the newspaper said late on Monday.

• Wednesday, August 2nd 2017 - 07:33 UTC

  Hammond begins round of trade and political talks in Argentina

  

  The Chancellor of the Exchequer begins on Wednesday a round of trade, investment and political contacts in Argentina, following a two day visit to Brazil, as part of a tour of South America's biggest economy. It will be the most important visit of a British cabinet minister in over sixteen years to Argentina.

• Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 07:06 UTC

  Argentine Peso rises against the US dollar as Central Bank shows its muscle

  

  Argentina's Peso rose against the dollar on Monday for the first time in two weeks, after the central bank intervened in the foreign exchange markets on Friday to halt the currency's rapid decline to historic lows, when it reached 18 Pesos.

• Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 06:25 UTC

  Hammond arrives in Argentina on trade mission; scheduled to meet Macri

  

  Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is scheduled to arrive in Buenos Aires Tuesday evening following a two day business promotion visit to Brazil. It will be the first time a leading UK cabinet minister sets foot in Argentina in sixteen years; the last was when ex Prime Minister Tony Blair met ex president Fernando De la Rua in the Iguazu falls in 2001.

• Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 16:58 UTC

  Argentina and Uruguay plan to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup

  

  Argentina and Uruguay are going ahead with plans to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup despite expected competition from China and others .The South American neighbors are counting on sentimental support with Uruguay hosting the first World Cup in 1930.