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Montevideo, August 26th 2026 - 19:51 UTC

Argentina

  • Thursday, July 9th 2026 - 05:03 UTC

    Argentina's polar spell eases as Patagonia faces rain, snow and 90 km/h gusts

    Between the start and middle of the week, the instability extends toward the Chubut mountain range and parts of Río Negro and Neuquén

    The intense polar air mass that affected much of Argentina during the first days of July has begun to ease, with a gradual rise in temperatures across the center and north of the country, while Patagonia now concentrates the most severe weather. The National Meteorological Service (SMN) has kept warnings in place for rain, snow and strong winds in the far south.

  • Thursday, July 9th 2026 - 04:57 UTC

    Court orders Argentina to restore Cristina Kirchner's widow's pension

    The reinstatement covers only the pension derived from the death of former President Néstor Kirchner

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will again receive, starting in August, a widow's pension of about 15.7 million pesos gross per month (around 12,000 dollars at the official exchange rate), following a court injunction that ordered the benefit provisionally reinstated after it was suspended in late 2024 in the wake of her corruption conviction.

  • Wednesday, July 8th 2026 - 19:14 UTC

    LATAM resumes direct winter flights from Sao Paulo to Ushuaia, four weekly frequencies

    LATAM operating from Ushuaia airport

    Aviation and Tourism publications are reporting that after several years without regular services. Latam has returned to the Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego airport to offer nonstop flights from its main hub Sao Paulo on the continent.

  • Wednesday, July 8th 2026 - 07:47 UTC

    Argentine court mistakenly summons namesake in high-profile corruption trial

    May I clarify something? You've got the wrong Juan Carlos Santos,” he said

    An unusual incident interrupted a hearing on Tuesday in the Cuadernos trial, one of the largest corruption cases in Argentine history: the court mistakenly summoned to testify a man who shared his name with one of the expected witnesses, a 73-year-old public accountant with no connection to the case.

  • Wednesday, July 8th 2026 - 07:20 UTC

    Milei plans US-style government shutdown mechanism to cap Argentina's spending

    “We are working on setting up the shutdown of the executive branch, of politics really,” Milei said in a streaming interview

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced on Tuesday that he will send Congress a bill to introduce a government “shutdown” mechanism, modeled on the US system, that would bar the executive from continuing to spend once budget allocations run out. The measure is part of a package of economic reforms with which the president aims to relaunch his administration.

  • Monday, July 6th 2026 - 20:12 UTC

    Argentine lawmaker files criminal complaint against Milei over US military exercises

    In the filing, Marino argued that Article 75, subsection 28 of the Constitution reserves exclusively for Congress the power to permit the entry of foreign troops

    An opposition lawmaker has filed a criminal complaint against President Javier Milei and four current and former government officials for authorizing, by decree, the entry of US troops that took part in military exercises on Argentine soil without congressional approval.

  • Sunday, July 5th 2026 - 20:51 UTC

    Argentina sends fresh rescue brigades to Venezuela as most foreign teams begin to withdraw

    The Argentine contingent's departure comes as most foreign teams begin to leave Venezuela

    A new contingent of Argentine rescue workers left for Venezuela on Sunday to relieve the search-and-rescue teams deployed after the June 24 twin earthquake, which according to the official toll has left 2,954 dead and more than 16,500 injured. The dispatch coincides with the start of the withdrawal of most international missions, at the point when operations are shifting away from rescuing survivors toward the recovery phase.

  • Saturday, July 4th 2026 - 06:43 UTC

    Argentina survives a scare from debutant Cape Verde to reach the World Cup quarterfinals

    Lionel Messi put the world champions ahead in the 28th minute, controlling the ball with his left foot and firing a precise shot after an assist from Lisandro Martínez

    Argentina beat Cape Verde 3-2 on Friday, in a match settled in extra time, to reach the quarterfinals of the World Cup being held in the United States, Mexico and Canada. The side coached by Lionel Scaloni had to dig deep to overcome a debutant that pushed the tie to the limit at the Miami stadium.

  • Friday, July 3rd 2026 - 09:58 UTC

    Mercosur backs Argentina days after Islanders' UN appeal for self-determination

    Mercosur's 68th Presidential Summit in Asunción issued a Special Declaration reiterating their support for Argentina's “legitimate rights” in the sovereignty dispute over the Falklands

    Within the span of a week, the two opposing positions in the Falklands dispute were laid out clearly in two separate arenas: South American governments' backing for Argentina's sovereignty claim, and the defense of self-determination that two representatives of the Islanders took to the United Nations. Neither pronouncement was a reply to the other, but together they illustrate the distance between two hard-to-reconcile logics.

  • Friday, July 3rd 2026 - 07:53 UTC

    Milei abolishes the Interior Ministry, expanding Santilli's role ahead of Congress talks

    President Javier Milei had anticipated the reform after appointing Santilli to replace Manuel Adorni, who resigned last week amid a judicial investigation into alleged illicit enrichment

    Argentina's government abolished the Interior Ministry and transferred its functions to the cabinet chief's office, headed by Diego Santilli, through an emergency decree published on Thursday in the Official Gazette. The measure places the political relationship with governors, provinces, municipalities, the City of Buenos Aires and Congress under the coordinating minister's remit, along with powers over the electoral system and political parties. With the change, the national cabinet is reduced to eight ministries.