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Argentina

  • Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 11:12 UTC

    Paraguayan lawmaker ready for war with Argentina

    The 25-year-old Rubin is willing to go to war for his country

    Paraguayan Congressman Rubén Isaac Rubín Orrego of the National Encounter Alliance (Alianza Encuentro Nacional - AEN) Wednesday said his country needed “missiles that can hit important points in the region because, otherwise, we are already losing the diplomatic game” with Argentina amid escalating tension between the two countries.

  • Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    Unemployment falls in Argentina in 2Q, Indec says

    In the first six months of 2023, Argentina's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) accumulated an inter-annual drop of 1.9%, Indec found

    Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) released a report Wednesday showing that unemployment fell to 6.2% of the labor force in the second quarter of 2023, an improvement from the 6.9% recorded between January and March.

  • Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 10:40 UTC

    Argentina, US sign agreement on security cooperation

    Ambassador Stanley said the agreement was “an evolution of our cooperation and understanding”

    Argentina's Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with US Ambassador Marc Stanley to strengthen security cooperation.

  • Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    Argentine democracy in danger, Lula tells Biden

    “I've never seen an American president speak so much and so well of workers as you have,” Lula also pointed out to Biden

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday warned his US colleague Joseph Biden in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations 78th General Assembly that democracy in Argentina was in danger as “extremist sectors” were gaining ground.

  • Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 09:48 UTC

    Mercosur's future at stake in Argentina's elections, Brazilian minister says

    “I don't know what will become of Mercosur if the agreement isn't closed and we have an 'exotic' election result in Argentina,” Haddad said

    Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said in New York that he believed the future of Mercosur hinged on the outcome of this year's presidential elections in Argentina, Agencia Brasil reported. He also denounced France's attempt to delay the Mercosur-EU trade agreement from becoming effective.

  • Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 09:44 UTC

    Argentine president insists the world needs more equality

    “The global financial architecture only serves to concentrate income and to marginalize vast regions of the world,” Fernández said

    In his last appearance before the United Nations General Assembly, Argentine President Alberto Fernández, who will be leaving office comes Dec. 10, Tuesday called for a change in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) by-laws and and urged greater global equality.

  • Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 08:05 UTC

    Tension between Argentina and Paraguay on the rise

    Massa is trying to confuse the public opinion, Alliana argued

    Tension between Argentina and Paraguay is on the rise after Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa argued that his country had paid for the construction of the Yacyretá Dam between the 1980s and 1990s and was still owed “billions of dollars” for it.

  • Tuesday, September 19th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

    Argentine President asks UN Chief to insist of UK on Islands issue

    Fernández participated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández asked United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres to “renew the good offices efforts” with the United Kingdom regarding the Malvinas/Falklands question, it was reported in New York.

  • Tuesday, September 19th 2023 - 08:19 UTC

    Grim future ahead for CFK

    CFK will have no immunity, parliamentary or otherwise, after Dec. 10.

    Chaco Governor Jorge Milton Capitanich's failure in his reelection bid has triggered a series of setbacks for Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, whose aura is beginning to wane, marking the end of Kirchnerism as the main line within Peronism.

  • Tuesday, September 19th 2023 - 08:09 UTC

    Does Chaco's result herald the demise of Kirchnerism?

    The femicide of Cecilia Strzyzowski two weeks before the provincial PASO tipped the scale against Capitanich

    Last Sunday's results in the gubernatorial elections in the Argentine province of Chaco seem to be heralding new winds of change, as the demise of Peronism and its most recent version -Kirchnerism- appear to be on their way out, according to political analysts in Buenos Aires.