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Montevideo, July 5th 2025 - 06:55 UTC

Argentina

  • Monday, June 9th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    Milei boasts his government's achievements in Madrid

    “By 2026, inflation in Argentina will be a thing of the past,” Milei said in Madrid

    President Javier Milei told the Madrid Economic Forum this weekend that his government had overreached his campaign goals with a “brutal adjustment” that eliminated the country's fiscal deficit, making Argentina one of five countries worldwide not in the red.

  • Monday, June 9th 2025 - 10:29 UTC

    Jones Huala arrested for encouraging acts of violence

    The Bariloche-born “Jones Huala is once again detained by the forces of law and order,” Bullrich underlined after his arrest

    Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) leader Facundo Jones Huala was arrested in the Patagonian city of El Bolsón late Sunday by the Argentine Federal Police, following an order from the Bariloche Federal Prosecutor's Office for public intimidation, incitement to collective violence, apology for crime, and criminal association.

  • Saturday, June 7th 2025 - 10:56 UTC

    Milei and Meloni meet for two hours in Rome

    The Argentine leader arrived earlier Friday in the Italian capital

    Argentine President Javier Milei met Friday with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at Rome's Palazzo Chigi to oversee the signing of an energy agreement between YPF and ENI for the “Argentina LNG” project, aimed at exploiting and exporting gas from Vaca Muerta using floating Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) technology.

  • Friday, June 6th 2025 - 10:57 UTC

    Uruguayan president and predecessors due together in Buenos Aires for Anne Frank Awards

    Orsi, Lacalle Pou, and Sanguinetti are due in Buenos Aires for the accolade recognizing efforts towards peaceful coexistence

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi and his predecessors, Luis Lacalle Pou and Julio María Sanguinetti, will be traveling to Buenos Aires next Monday to attend the Anne Frank Awards for Latin America. The awards, organized by the Anne Frank Center Argentina for Latin America (CAFA).

  • Thursday, June 5th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Can Milei be arrested when he lands in Spain later this month?

    Egío insisted Milei should be arrested “as soon as he arrives at the airport, that they arrest Javier Milei, until he returns everything he has stolen”

    Spanish Congressman Víctor Egío of Podemos has called for the arrest of Argentine President Javier Milei when he lands in Madrid later this month to attend an event hosted by his like-minded rightwing party Vox. The Libertarian leader is scheduled to stopover there on his way back to Buenos Aires from an official tour to Rome, Paris, and Tel Aviv to meet local authorities and Pope Leo XIV.

  • Wednesday, June 4th 2025 - 10:34 UTC

    OECD expects Argentina to grow more than other G20 nations

    Argentina’s outlook remains robust, the OECD said

    According to the biannual Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) 2025 Economic Outlook published Tuesday, Argentina is projected to experience significant economic growth of 5.2% in 2025 and 4.3% in 2026, the highest among Latin American G20 countries and second only to India globally.

  • Tuesday, June 3rd 2025 - 10:34 UTC

    CFK confirms provincial legislature candidacy

    “You have to go to the place where you are most useful,” CFK insisted

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) announced Monday that she would be running for the Buenos Aires Provincial Legislature's Lower House in the Sept. 7 elections, representing La Matanza and other areas on the southern outskirts of the country's capital.

  • Tuesday, June 3rd 2025 - 10:29 UTC

    Aerolíneas Argentinas pilots announce strike for June 10

    It remains to be seen whether the Labor Secretariat will order a Mandatory Conciliation, thus halting the measure of force

    The Aerolíneas Argentinas pilots' labor union APLA (Airline Pilots Association) announced Monday an eight-hour strike on June 10, 2025, between 6 pm and 2 am the following day, affecting operations at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery and Ezeiza airports.

  • Tuesday, June 3rd 2025 - 08:14 UTC

    Paraguayan and Argentine officials discuss gas pipeline project to feed Brazil

    Argentina has surpassed Brazil as the main destination for Paraguayan exports, Ambassador Felip Salazar highlighted

    Paraguayan Ambassador Helena Concepción Felip Salazar and Asunción's Vice-Minister of Mines and Energy Mauricio Bejarano met in Buenos Aires with Argentina's Energy Secretary María Tettamanti to advance discussions on a bioceanic gas pipeline project. The talks focused on drafting a memorandum of understanding and outlining steps for gas integration between the two nations.

  • Saturday, May 31st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina objects to EU's deforestation “standard” risk rating

    Argentina was ranked alongside Brazil and Paraguay but riskier than Uruguay

    Argentina has formally objected to the European Union's preliminary classification of the country as a “standard risk” under the EU Deforestation-Free Regulation (EUDR). The regulation, set to take effect in 2026, aims to ensure that consumer products imported into the EU, such as soybeans, beef, timber, and cocoa, do not originate from deforested areas after December 31, 2020.