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Montevideo, November 25th 2024 - 00:28 UTC

Argentina

  • Friday, July 21st 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentine FM sends message to his British colleague regarding South Atlantic Islands

    “The UK has been violating Argentina's territorial integrity for 190 years,” Cafiero told Cleverly

    Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero sent a message to his British colleague James Cleverly saying that “the UK has been violating Argentina's territorial integrity for 190 years.” The British government considered Thursday that a “regrettable choice of words” had been made.

  • Friday, July 21st 2023 - 10:33 UTC

    Airport in Argentina closed due to bomb threat

    “We could have brought a bomb,” check-in agents were reportedly told

    The Ingeniero Ambrosio Taravella International Airport serving the Argentine city of Córdoba was closed Thursday after a bomb threat on a Latam Airlines flight bound for Lima, Peru, which in the end departed at 10.53 am instead of at 8.05 am.

  • Friday, July 21st 2023 - 10:04 UTC

    Production of lithium batteries to start in September in Argentina

    The Y-TEC plant at the University of La Plata will generate cells for batteries for 2,000 homes to supply wind and solar energy to populations isolated from the grid, Salvarezza explained

    Argentina's first National Plant for the Technological Development of Lithium Cells and Batteries will start production in September on the premises of the National University of La Plata (UNLP), Y-TEC (a subsidiary of the state-owned oil company YPF) head Roberto Salvarezza announced Thursday.

  • Friday, July 21st 2023 - 09:06 UTC

    Import barriers impact Argentina's health system

    There is an imminent risk of a shortage of products, spare parts, and supplies for medical equipment used in surgeries, diagnoses, and treatments.

    High-tech surgeries such as transplants and other treatments have been put on hold in Argentina due to restrictions on imports that have resulted in a lack of medical inputs leading to the suspension of transplants and other treatments, Buenos Aires' Clarín reported.

  • Thursday, July 20th 2023 - 23:15 UTC

    Cuban worker in Falklands/Malvinas granted Argentine residence

    “We Grant Rights, We Build #Sovereignty,” Carignano said on Twitter

    Argentine immigration authorities Wednesday granted residence to Cuban migrant Yamila Socorro Molina, who lives in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, it was reported in Buenos Aires. Migrations Director Florencia Carignano said it was a “historical precedent.”

  • Thursday, July 20th 2023 - 15:29 UTC

    The Falkland Islands remain clear on their name

    Deputy Chair of the Legislative Assembly, MLA Teslyn Barkman said: “Myself and the other Members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly would like to be clear that this news from Brussels changes nothing. The EU themselves have issued a statement to say that they have not changed their views and positions concerning the Falklands.

  • Thursday, July 20th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

    Argentina's Falklands claim at CELAC/EU summit, a midwinter dream

    Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said people of the Falklands have chosen to be British, belong to the British family and have the right to self determination, enshrined in the UN Charter

    The Argentine government's victory cheering and bragging about a joint declaration from two continents on the Falklands/Malvinas issue has turned out to be a brief midwinter dream. This was strongly confirmed by the British Foreign Office and the European Union.

  • Thursday, July 20th 2023 - 09:17 UTC

    Buenos Aires: “Blue” dollar keeps going up amid police raids

    Aníbal Fernandez explained that they were trying to arrest a mysterious group known as “the liquidators”

    Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) Wednesday sold US$ 130 million and 288 million yuan (around US$ 40 million) in a desperate move to keep the “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) quotation from soaring any further after reaching AR$ 527 / US$ 1.

  • Wednesday, July 19th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    EU-Celac summit's final declaration: Falklands/Malvinas a territory under dispute

    The final document also condemns Russia's aggression against Ukraine<br />

    The final declaration of the two-day Summit between the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) issued Tuesday in Brussels included in its 13th provision the Falkland/Malvinas Islands as a territory under dispute. The document also condemned Russia's military deployment in Ukraine with a footnote noting that one country (Nicaragua) would not adhere to that point.

  • Wednesday, July 19th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

    Argentine team starts talks with IMF toward new deal

    If negotiations are successful, Massa might travel to the US by Friday

    Argentina's Economic Policy Secretary Adolfo Rubinstein; Chief Advisor Leonardo Madcur; and Central Bank (BCRA) Vice-President Lisandro Cleri started Tuesday in Washington DC a new round of negotiations with a technical team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to finalize a new agreement ahead of this year's presidential elections, it was confirmed by an IMF spokesperson.