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Montevideo, April 16th 2025 - 18:21 UTC

Argentina

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 23:06 UTC

    Milei pulls Argentina out of WHO

    Leaving the WHO does not mean leaving the PAHO, Health Minister Mario Lugones explained

    Argentine Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni announced Wednesday during his morning press briefing that his country would be following in on Donald Trump's steps and withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO), which entailed disbursements totaling around US$ 10 million annually.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 13:28 UTC

    Argentine authorities take action against RAM for Patagonia fires

    “I am a militant of the Mapuche cause,” Jones-Huala insisted

    Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said Tuesday that the Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei would be declaring the Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) a terrorist group, in addition to other measures against lonko (leader) Facundo Jones-Huala, who claimed responsibility for the arson-caused wildfires in the Patagonian province of Chubut and urged his comrades to up the armed struggle because all those “tools are valid for the liberation of our people.” Jones-Huala also denied any involvement in the fire affecting El Bolsón in the province of Río Negro. “Against landowners yes, but not against our environment,” Jones Huala said earlier this week.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 09:01 UTC

    Orsi evaluating candidates for Buenos Aires Embassy

    Cánepa is reportedly the frontrunner for the position

    Uruguay's future government to be inaugurated on March 1 is evaluating candidates for the Embassy in Buenos Aires. According to local media, former Assistant Presidential Secretary Diego Cánepa seems to be the leading candidate to fill the vacancy left by Carlos Enciso, who resigned to focus on his possible candidacy for the Florida City Council. Foreign Minister Omar Paganini confirmed the position would remain unfilled until the change of government.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 07:57 UTC

    Argentine Patagonia wildfires man-caused

    Accelerants were detected where the fires are believed to have started

    Argentine authorities determined that the fires currently ravaging through the Patagonian enclaves of El Bolsón (Río Negro) and Epuyén (Chubut) were arson. The announcements were made after the sites of the initial outbreaks were found and accelerants were detected. Governors Ignacio Torres (Chubut) and Alberto Weretilneck (Río Negro) pledged to investigate the matter and hold those responsible accountable.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 09:47 UTC

    Milei says anti-fascist LGBT+ protesters duped by “edited” version of his speech

    Participating in Saturday's LGBTQ+ march was Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof, among other opposition leaders

    Argentine President Javier Milei said Sunday that he was saddened by how those participating in the Feb. 1 Gay Pride demonstration in Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo were “used with an edited video.”

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 19:09 UTC

    Worst feared as Argentine national goes missing in Brazil

    Federico Bruni's van was found on the banks of the Do Ponche River

    Brazilian Police keep looking for 32-year-old Argentine national Federico Bruni who went missing as he went on a tour in the São Bonifácio jungle. Bruni's pick-up truck and his dog have already been found.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 10:35 UTC

    Argentine national among the dead in Potomac River air crash

    The Argentine national's 13-year-old son was, like almost half of the airliner's passengers, involved in figure skating and had attended an event in Kansas

    US authorities announced Thursday that there were no survivors in the mid-air collision between an American Eagle CRJ-700 jetliner and an Army helicopter near Washington DC's Ronald Reagan / National Airport. Among the deceased was an Argentine national and his Chilean son. The airplane was carrying 60 passengers plus a crew of 4 while 3 servicemen were aboard the helicopter.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2025 - 13:28 UTC

    BOFA report predicts relative stability in Argentina until mid-term elections

    IMF “disbursements should be used primarily to pay the IMF itself,” the BOFA reckoned

    A Bank of America (BOFA) report released this week forecast that Argentina's Libertarian administration of President Javier Milei would be lifting the so-called exchange rate stocks in December this year. By that time, the rate was projected to stand at AR$ 1,400 = US$ 1. The study also deemed a US$ 20 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) plausible, to endorse Milei's “chainsaw” State spending cuts policies amid greater exchange rate flexibility.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2025 - 11:35 UTC

    Argentina launches a month assessment of Illex squid along the Patagonian shelf

    The cruise will be done onboard the fisheries research vessel Victor Angelescu

    Argentina this week launched a month long cruise assessment of the sub-Patagonic squid, Illex Argentinus, on board the Ocean Fisheries Research Vessel, Victor Angelescu. The area of research will extend between parallels 46 and 51 degrees south.

  • Wednesday, January 29th 2025 - 20:39 UTC

    Milei’s Davos speech triggers political and social uproar

    In his 30-minute speech, the Argentine president said he had a much bigger task than reforming the chronically crisis-ridden South American country.

    Argentine President Javier Milei generated a wave of criticism after his statements at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he linked homosexuality with pedophilia. His words triggered the call for an “anti-fascist” march, which is expected to be massive in Buenos Aires and other cities of the country