Argentina

Friday, April 14th 2023 - 09:25 UTC
Scioli insists he will make new attempt to reach Casa Rosada

Former Argentine Vice President Daniel Scioli insisted Thursday that he would make another attempt to reach Casa Rosada after losing the 2015 runoff to Mauricio Macri.
Friday, April 14th 2023 - 09:14 UTC
Taiana visits Brazilian submarine shipyard

Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana toured a Brazilian shipyard in Rio de Janeiro, the official news service Télam reported Thursday. The state-owned facilities are specialized in submarines and were opened in 2009.
Thursday, April 13th 2023 - 10:57 UTC
Argentina working with dengue as with Covid-19

Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Wednesday said her country was treating the dengue outbreak with the same degree of concern with which the Covid-19 pandemic was handled.
Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 11:06 UTC
Another consequence of historic Argentine drought: it could lose its position as world's main soy meal exporter

Argentina could soon face the consequences of the historic drought ravaging its agricultural and industrial processing potential. This means the country may soon cease to be the world’s largest exporter of soy-meal, since domestic oilseed production, because of the historic drought is likely to reduced by 36% year-on-year to just 27 million tons in the 2022/23 cycle, said the Rosario Stock Exchange (BCR).
Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 10:37 UTC
Buenos Aires Mayor distances himself from party leadership

Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodíguez Larreta's decision to hold municipal elections concurrently with the federal ones albeit with different (and electronic) ballot boxes has sparked friction among Argentina's opposition Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) coalition, particularly from former President Mauricio Macri.
Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:59 UTC
Argentine politicians invited to Cambridge University symposium on governance (Malvinas issue expected to creep in)

A group of Argentine politicians, have been invited to a political symposium organized by the University of Cambridge in UK, to address among other issues governance, environment and the impact of new technologies.
Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:53 UTC
Dengue positive cases in Argentina double in a week

According to public health numbers from the Health Ministry, mosquito-transmitted Dengue cases in Argentina have grown exponentially, reaching 28,235 which represents a 74% increase over the previous epidemiological report.
Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:50 UTC
Argentine President highlights the State's role in housing for all

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday insisted that “giving a roof to every inhabitant is an act of justice.” Fernández made those remarks at the closing ceremony of a Forum of Ministers and Highest Authorities of Housing and Urban Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean at Buenos Aires' Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK).
Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:17 UTC
Argentine veterans want Foradori sacked from Foreign Ministry

A group of Argentine war veterans Monday filed a petition before Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero to dismiss former Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Mario Foradori from the country's diplomatic corps for “having acted recklessly” in the conclusion, in 2016, of the joint declaration known as the Foradori-Duncan agreement to the “detriment of the interests of the Argentine Republic relating to the Malvinas question.”
Monday, April 10th 2023 - 12:54 UTC
More dramatic estimates from Argentine agriculture and soy crop

The Safras & Mercado consultancy revised Argentina's soybeans production estimate for 2022/2023 of some 24.8 million tons, dramatically down from the previous forecast in March of 31.4 million tons.