Argentina

• Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  When FIC tried to buy Peninsula Valdes and land in Tierra del Fuego

  

  The history section of daily “Diario del Fin del Mundo”, edited in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, extreme south of Argentina, recalls that almost a century and a half ago, more precisely December 1881, the Falkland Islands Company, FIC, “at the time with total control over the Falklands economy”, approached the Argentine government offering to buy the total of Peninsula Valdes, Chubut province and an area in Tierra del Fuego next to San Sebastian Bay, and its surrounding 160 leguas (league) for the rearing of sheep.

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Milei sends multi-item reform bill to Argentine Congress

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei Wednesday sent to Congress a multi-item bill providing for the suppression of the Mandatory, Simultaneous, and Open Primary (PASO) elections, tougher police control in case of protests, and the privatization of 41 public companies, among other measures to rescue the South American country from its current crisis.

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Dengue kills man in Argentine province of Corrientes

  

  Argentine health authorities have issued an epidemiological alert after a man died of dengue in the city of Corrientes. The patient, who was reported to have underlying pathologies, had been rushed from his San Luis del Palmar residence to the “Escuela Hogar” hospital, in the provincial capital.

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 09:53 UTC

  Uneventful protest in Argentina ends in arrests and other incidents in adjacent areas

  

  Several people were arrested in downtown Buenos Aires on Wednesday after a demonstration in front of the main Courthouse in which the country's unions and some social organizations demanded that President Javier Milei's sweeping emergency decree (DNU) of last week be overturned by the judiciary through a declaration of unconstitutionality.

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 08:37 UTC

  Antisemitism case against Roger Waters admitted in Buenos Aires

  

  An Argentine court has agreed to review an antisemitism complaint filed by Shoah survivor Carlos Zigelbaum and his son Sergio Zigelbaum against British pop musician Roger Waters, it was reported this week in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

  Milei eyes plebiscite if DNU fails through Congress

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei said he would call for a popular consultation if his most-encompassing emergency decree (DNU) issued last week fails through Congress.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  Covid-19: Pirola strain detected in Argentina

  

  Argentine health authorities Tuesday confirmed the first case of the JN.1 strain of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, also known as Pirola, which has been labeled a variant of interest (VOI) by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week.

• Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Impending job losses to deepen Argentina's crisis in the short run

  

  The administration of President Javier Milei is planning not to renew the contracts of some 7,000 state workers, which would add to the hardships many Argentine families are going through amid deep reforms to recover from the country's current crisis, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Argentina's BCRA planning larger-denomination bills

  

  Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) is entertaining the possibility of issuing AR$ 20,000 and 50,000 bills in a move to keep up with inflation and eliminate the need for large wads of banknotes for nearly every cash transaction.

• Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  Milei says Argentine opposition leaders are corrupt sadists

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday called the opposition “corrupt” and “sadistic” as he defended his emergency decree (DNU) deregulating most aspects of the South American country's economy to recover from the ongoing crisis through fiscal adjustments and cuts in public spending.