Get our news on your inbox! x

Remember me Forgot password

MercoPress, en Español

Montevideo, April 27th 2025 - 04:18 UTC

Argentina

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    Milei calls for extraordinary sessions of Congress

    This is what Milei had in mind when he said there was more coming up

    Argentine President Javier Milei issued a decree on Friday calling for extraordinary sessions of Congress between Dec. 26, 2023, and Jan. 31, 2024, to deal with urgent matters. The head of state said earlier this week that “the crisis requires immediate action.” According to the Constitution, during the legislative recess (from Dec. 1 to the last day of February), Congress can only deal with issues specified in the presidential decree calling for extraordinary sessions.

  • Friday, December 22nd 2023 - 10:37 UTC

    No general strike yet against Milei's decree, labor leaders announce

    “We have to demand that the decree be rolled back,” said CGT leader Héctor Daer

    Argentina's General Labor Confederation (CGT) announced a demonstration to be staged next Wednesday before the main Courthouse in Buenos Aires to protest against President Javier Milei's reforms through an emergency decree earlier this week.

  • Friday, December 22nd 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Argentina makes payment to IMF through CAF loan

    Argentina is said to be looking at fewer surcharges from the IMF next year

    Less than two weeks into the term of President Javier Milei, Argentina Thursday made a payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) worth US$ 921 million thanks to a loan from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Friday, December 22nd 2023 - 10:03 UTC

    Six protesters arrested in Argentine city of Córdoba

    Police launched teargas and fired rubber bullets against the cacerolazo

    At least six people were arrested Thursday by law enforcement officers in the Argentine city of Córdoba after clashes with protesters downtown as they marched against President Javier Milei's decree while other pot-banging demonstrations were staged in Buenos Aires and other cities nationwide such as Mar del Plata, Bariloche, Rosario, Luján, Tandil, Puerto Madryn, and Junín.

  • Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina: Milei announces mega reform emergency package

    Milei gave his 16-minute speech flanked by his entire cabinet

    Argentine President Javier Milei Wednesday announced in a recorded message broadcast at 9 pm -instead of at noon as originally scheduled- an emergency decree containing 366 measures to deregulate the economy, of which he only highlighted 30.

  • Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:54 UTC

    Argentina launches South Atlantic operation targetting illegal fishing

    The Mar del Plata-based Piedrabuena took over her new assignment in Ushuaia this week (Pic ARA)

    Argentina's Joint Maritime Command has deployed the ARA Piedrabuena Oceanic Patrol Vessel (OPV) to combat illegal fishing through Operation Grifon XVI in the country's territorial Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Atlantic amid an increase in clandestine operations by jiggers, most of them of Chinese origin.

  • Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:53 UTC

    Buenos Aires: Two arrested in first mass rally against the government

    The two arrests were “for attacking police personnel,” according to government sources quoted by local media after clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers

    Two people were arrested Wednesday in Buenos Aires as leftwing groups staged a demonstration at Plaza de Mayo to commemorate another anniversary of the 2001 killings of protesters during the uprising against then-President Fernando de la Rúa who eventually resigned.

  • Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:43 UTC

    Pot-banging protests surge after Milei's announcement

    Similar protests were recorded during the last days of President Fernando de la Rúa before his resignation.

    Many Argentines took to the streets or their balconies Wednesday evening banging pots and pans in rejection of President Javier Milei's emergency decree DNU providing for the deregulation of the country's economy.

  • Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:38 UTC

    First human case of equine encephalitis reported in Argentina

    WEE has been known since 1930, but starting a few years ago their vaccination was no longer mandatory

    Argentine authorities confirmed Wednesday the first case of Equine Encephalitis in a human patient who was hospitalized in Reconquista, in the province of Santa Fe. The last records of humans affected by this disease in the country date back to 1983 and 1996. No vaccines are effective in humans.

  • Wednesday, December 20th 2023 - 10:42 UTC

    Argentina: Milei to explain drastic measures

    Argentina: Milei to explain drastic measures on national TV and radio

    Argentine President Javier Milei will go on national television on Wednesday to explain the scope of his most-encompassing emergency decree (DNU) to deregulate the economy with more than 600 provisions.