Argentina

Friday, June 17th 2016 - 07:48 UTC
Argentine Jewish community criticize UN chair hopeful Malcorra on a Unesco vote

Argentina's Jewish community sent a strong letter to foreign minister Susana Malcorra rejecting and condemning the administration of president Mauricio Macri for having supported a controversial Unesco resolution under the heading of “Occupied Palestine”.
Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 20:35 UTC
Falklands will receive a visit from the International Red Cross

A four person delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be visiting the Falkland Islands from 27 June to 2 July, as part of the humanitarian mission to help identify the mortal remains of unnamed Argentine combatants buried at the Argentine memorial in Darwin.
Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 08:08 UTC
Argentina's revamped stats data launched: May inflation 4.2%

Argentina released inflation figures for the first time since December last year, when newly elected president Mauricio Macri suspended the publication of economic data and intervened the official stats office, Indec, following long standing claims of manipulation by his predecessor.
Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 07:55 UTC
Malcorra thanks OAS for continued support to Argentina on the Falklands/Malvinas dispute

Foreign minister Susana Malcorra reiterated Argentina's call to OAS state members to continue supporting the resumption of negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas question. A controversy which she said, “involves the whole southern hemisphere”.
Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 07:47 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas: OAS Assembly calls on Argentina/UK to resume sovereignty negotiations

The Organization of American States, OAS, approved on Wednesday a declaration calling on Argentina and Great Britain to resume negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas question as soon as possible.
Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 07:25 UTC
Macri attends economic forum in Colombia; reaffirms Argentina's commitment to the Pacific Alliance

Argentine president Mauricio Macri said Mercosur needs “a greater integration dynamics” and defended the idea that the Atlantic regional block country members work to reach agreements with countries of the Pacific Alliance.
Wednesday, June 15th 2016 - 05:26 UTC
An Argentine ex-Kirchnerite official caught red-handed trying to hide bags of cash in a monastery

An Argentine former secretary of Public Works with the Cristina Fernandez administration, Jose Lopez, and currently a member of the Mercosur parliament, was arrested on Tuesday in the Buenos Aires province locality of General Rodríguez while he was trying to hide bags full of money and an automatic gun in the garden of a convent.
Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 12:15 UTC
“No animosity at all towards the president”, said Macorra following a meeting with Pope Francis

“There is no animosity”, said Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra after meeting with Pope Francis in Rome on the sidelines of an event sponsored by the United Nations, just days after the pontiff publicly rejected a multi-million-peso “donation” from the administration of President Mauricio Macri destined for the pope’s Scholas Occurrentes program.
Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 09:04 UTC
Macri's coalition trips in a mayoral race and suffers unnecessary exposure

Mauricio Macri's ruling coalition, “Let's Change” suffered its first electoral defeat since winning the presidential runoff last November, at a mayoral competition in the city of Rio Cuarto, Córdoba province last Sunday.
Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 08:32 UTC
Brazil and Argentina crop problems raise demand for US supplies

Domestic supplies of corn and soybeans will be tighter than expected in the United States as problems with crops in Brazil and Argentina have raised demand for U.S. supplies from overseas buyers, the U.S. Agriculture Department. In its latest monthly supply and demand report, the government cut its new-crop and old-crop ending stocks outlooks for both corn and soybeans by more than analysts had forecast.