Argentina

Monday, August 24th 2026 - 06:53 UTC
Two newly detained men testify in the case over the shooting of the Bolivian lawyer

Two men held as part of the investigation into the shooting of Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller gave statements to prosecutors in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on Sunday. One is accused of supplying the weapon used in the ambush; the other, a Colombian national identified as a possible gunman, turned himself in after learning he was being sought.
Monday, August 24th 2026 - 06:22 UTC
Argentina retires the jets that sank two British ships in the 1982 war

Argentina's Navy has announced the definitive retirement of its Super Étendard strike aircraft, the French-built jets that attacked the British fleet with Exocet missiles during the 1982 Falklands war. The announcement was made on August 20 by the commander of Naval Aviation, Rear Admiral Román Enrique Olivero, at a ceremony at Punta Indio Naval Air Base. The withdrawal will take place this year, on a date yet to be set.
Sunday, August 23rd 2026 - 22:41 UTC
Argentina votes this week on the reform barring the central bank from funding the Treasury

Argentina's Chamber of Deputies will on Wednesday debate the reform of the central bank's charter promoted by Javier Milei's government, which bars the monetary authority from financing the fiscal deficit through money creation and restores preservation of the value of the currency as its sole objective.
Sunday, August 23rd 2026 - 22:32 UTC
The Mercosur-Singapore trade agreement reaches Argentina's Congress

Argentina's Chamber of Deputies will on Wednesday take up ratification of the free trade agreement between Mercosur and Singapore, signed in December 2023 and still awaiting parliamentary approval. It is the first trade treaty the bloc has concluded with a Southeast Asian country.
Friday, August 21st 2026 - 22:41 UTC
Uruguay's president meets Kicillof and agrees to cooperate on food and scientific research

Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi on Friday received the governor of Argentina's Buenos Aires province, Axel Kicillof, at the Torre Ejecutiva in Montevideo, where the two signed two cooperation agreements covering agrifood and scientific matters.
Friday, August 21st 2026 - 21:52 UTC
FIFA sanctions Argentina over the final's brawl and the Falklands banner

FIFA's Disciplinary Committee on Friday imposed financial and sporting sanctions on the Argentine Football Association and four members of its national squad over the confrontations at the end of the 2026 World Cup final and over breaches committed throughout the tournament, among them the display of a banner asserting a sovereignty claim over the Falklands.
Friday, August 21st 2026 - 10:10 UTC
Bolivian prosecutors open a second case against the consultant who advised Milei and Paz

Prosecutors in La Paz have opened an investigation on their own initiative into alleged illicit enrichment by Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo, who was charged this week in Santa Cruz with attempted femicide following the shooting of his former partner, lawyer Nadia Beller.
Friday, August 21st 2026 - 08:59 UTC
The prosecutor in the Maradona case says a crime occurred and the trial will not collapse

Deputy chief prosecutor for San Isidro Patricio Ferrari said on Thursday that the delivery of medical records belonging to Diego Armando Maradona's father, rather than the footballer's own, may constitute a criminal offence, and ruled out that the discovery will halt the trial over the star's death in November 2020.
Thursday, August 20th 2026 - 08:13 UTC
A judge demands urgent reports from Argentina's government on the fate of road funds

Federal judge Ernesto Kreplak, sitting in La Plata, this week admitted a class action and requested urgent reports from the Ministry of Economy, the National Roads Directorate and Banco Nación on the use of resources from the Integrated Road System (SisVial), a trust fund financed by the tax on liquid fuels whose legal purpose is the construction and maintenance of national highways.
Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 21:50 UTC
A critical report says Argentina's investment regime concentrated capital in mining and oil

Argentina's Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), created in 2024, “consolidated a strongly extractive profile and did not stimulate new sectors,” according to a report released on Wednesday by the RIGI Observatory, a coalition of civil society organisations and academic centres that examines the scheme from a critical standpoint.