Argentina

• 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.

• Monday, June 13th 2016 - 07:50 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas dispute: Malcorra calls for an “open dialogue” with UK

  

  Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra called on the United Kingdom to engage in “open dialogue” on the Falklands/Malvinas islands sovereignty dispute in an open letter sent to the UK government, which President Mauricio Macri’s administration hopes can further improve relations between the former foes.

• Monday, June 13th 2016 - 06:40 UTC

  Argentines feel the economic situation is bad or very bad, but will improve

  

  Most Argentines believe the economic situation is bad or very bad, but are also convinced things are set to improve, according to the latest public opinion poll released which coincides with the first six month of president Mauricio Macri's government. However it must also be mentioned that negative tendencies are increasing while positive ones are declining compared to last 10 December.

• Friday, June 10th 2016 - 08:13 UTC

  Argentina closer to the Alliance of the Pacific; Macri expected at the summit in Chile

  

  The Alliance of the Pacific approved Argentina's request to join the group as an observer country, signaling a new turn in president Mauricio Macri's foreign policy. The announcement was made by Chile's foreign minister Heraldo Munoz following the Alliance's Ministers Council in Mexico City in anticipation of the summit scheduled for July first.

• Friday, June 10th 2016 - 07:02 UTC

  Argentina calls on UK to strengthen bilateral relations and for Malvinas dialogue

  

  The Argentine government reiterates its full willingness for an open dialogue with the United Kingdom to strengthen the bilateral relation and indentify possible cooperation areas in the South Atlantic. Likewise it invites the UK to resume negotiations on the Malvinas question in the framework of the UN General Assembly resolution 2065, according to an official statement from the Argentine foreign ministry released on Friday.