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Montevideo, October 20th 2025 - 23:53 UTC

Argentina

  • Tuesday, January 9th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Argentine FM to meet with Chinese ambassador amiid growing tension

    Mondino's job lies in the balance. She still has Milei's support, though

    Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino is to meet on Thursday or Friday with Chinese Ambassador Wang Wei to discuss a US$ 6.5 billion currency swap brokered by former Economy Minister Sergio Massa last year, among other topics.

  • Monday, January 8th 2024 - 12:59 UTC

    Back from Antarctica, Milei calls opponents “useful idiots” and defends 30% inflation

    “The exercise of science, cooperation, and the preservation of the Antarctic environment are priority axes of our Antarctic foreign policy,” Milei said

    Argentine President Javier Milei returned this weekend to the mainland after touring the Marambio and Esperanza Bases in Antarctica, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, January 8th 2024 - 12:50 UTC

    Milei praises Minister Caputo and says 30% monthly inflation would be ”a great achievement”

    Some “useful idiots” focus on the forms when the country needs a rapid response, Milei insisted

    Argentine President Javier Milei praised Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo for his management of the country's inflation for December 2023 and said that if it reached 30% it would be “a great number” because previous estimates spoke of 45%.

  • Monday, January 8th 2024 - 12:00 UTC

    Argentina opens Illex squid season south of parallel 49

    On the basis of the INIDEP resolution, south of parallel 44 is exclusive for vessels that had been operating south of parallel 49 during at least five days from 10 January

    The Argentine government, through the Federal Fisheries Council has officially opened the Illex squid season south of parallel 49. The two main fisheries chambers, CAIPA and CEPA had requested that the season begin 10 January south of parallel 44, but the Council in early December denied the request based on a scientific report from INIDEP, the National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development.

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 11:08 UTC

    Dengue kills yet another patient in Argentina

    Health authorities in the Argentine province of Corrientes (northeast) Friday confirmed the death of a patient who had tested positive for dengue, thus increasing the number of fatalities to three this summer.

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 11:03 UTC

    Milei arrives in Rio Gallegos enroute to Antarctica

    Milei is to tour the Marambio and Esperanza bases, weather permitting

    Argentine President Javier Milei landed at around 8.30 pm Friday in Río Gallegos to stay the night before flying on to the Marambio Base in Antarctica. Traveling with the head of state were Ministers Diana Mondino (Foreign Affairs), Guillermo Francos (Interior), and Luis Petri (Defense) as well as Presidential Secretary Karina Milei, among other officials making up the entourage of 23.

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Jewish leader in Buenos Aires sparks controversy regarding Gaza

    Pikholtz is a former president of the Argentine Zionist Organization

    Contradicting reports in Buenos Aires Friday concurred that Sergio Pikholtz was no longer Vice President of the Delegation of Argentine-Israeli Associations (DAIA) after posting on social media that there were “no innocents in Gaza.”

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Argentina resumes joint border controls on river travel from Uruguay

    These services “that had been interrupted during the pandemic” have been resumed

    Argentine officers resumed operating at Uruguayan ports to run joint border crossing points “to optimize the experience of travelers of the different river passenger transportation companies and to strengthen the collaboration between both countries,” the National Direction of Migration explained through the Interior Ministry to which it belongs.

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:13 UTC

    Jones-Huala extradited yet again to Chile

    Jones Huala might be just months from being released in Chile

    Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala was extradited Thursday for a second time in his life from Argentina to Chile to serve out the remainder of his prison sentence for a 2013 arson attack. Jones Huala was escorted across the Andes by Interpol and law enforcement officers from both countries.

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    Icebreaker Irízar pays tribute to ARA San Juan crew

    It was an emotional moment for Captain Recio, who was a close friend of the San Juan's first officer

    The Argentine Navy icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar stopped in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean this week, en route to this summer's Antarctic campaign, at the site where the doomed submarine ARA San Juan was found off Comodoro Rivadavia in 2018, paying tribute to the crew and demanding justice from the ongoing investigation into the unit's 2017 sinking.