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Argentina

  • Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 19:07 UTC

    Circulation of Covid-19 increasing in Argentina

    “We started 2023 with a very high circulation of Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, concomitantly with influenza,” Rearte said

    Argentine health authorities Tuesday warned of an increase in the number of cases of Covid-19 and insisted there was “very high circulation” of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, due to which people were advised to update their vaccination scheme since immunity lasts about 4 months.

  • Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 10:04 UTC

    Argentine President highlights Brazil's return to international forums

    Lula is now due in Buenos Aires on Jan. 23 for another round of talks with Fernández

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday celebrated Brazil's “return” to all international forums and announced that “we have clearly decided to put the link between Argentina and Brazil back on track with full force,” following his meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva.

  • Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 23:59 UTC

    US favors supplying Argentina with vintage F16s to counter Chinese influence and despite UK's objection

    Hostility reached its peak in 2019 when Argentina planned to purchase FA-50 jets from South Korea, but the operation was vetoed because these aircraft have UK-manufactured parts

    A leading US Navy think tank feels it is imperative for the US to pay close attention to the South Atlantic given China's growing trade, financial, investment influence in countries such as Argentina, and suggests a joint security cooperation investment with the UK, but especially overcoming an “outdated United Kingdom post-Falklands War security policy”

  • Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 10:50 UTC

    Argentine President to meet personally with Lula on Monday

    “The dream came true,” Fernández told Lula on social media

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández, who was one of the few South American leaders to visit Luiz Inácion Lula Da Silva during his 580-day incarceration for his alleged involvement in the Lava Jato scandal, Sunday congratulated the Workers' Party activist on his return to the Planalto Palace and announced both heads of state are to hold a one-on-one meeting Monday in Brasilia

  • Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 09:40 UTC

    Buenos Aires residents welcome New Year in the dark

    The electricity company said the problem was caused by fireworks

    Thousands of residents in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires saw the New Year's celebrations brought to an abrupt end when a power cut hit several neighborhoods in the Argentine capital between around 0.30 and 2 am on Jan. 1.

  • Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 09:37 UTC

    Argentine President wants Supreme Court Chief Justice impeached

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Sunday announced he would seek to have Supreme Court (CSJN) Chief Justice Horacio Rosatti impeached while the conduct of the remaining members of the country's highest court is to be investigated.

  • Saturday, December 31st 2022 - 09:54 UTC

    President Fernández's new chief advisor chosen

    Aracre met with Fernández at the Olivos Presidential residence on Dec. 19

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández is to have a new chief advisor following Julián Leunda's resignation on Dec. 6, it was reported Friday in Buenos Aires.

  • Friday, December 30th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

    Argentina wheat exports at their lowest, but record year for fertilizer consumption

    Total consumption of fertilizers in Argentina added to 4.54 million tons in 2021/22, setting a record, reported the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange

    Bad and good news from Argentina. Wheat exports are expected to hit their lowest point in eight years because of climate effects, especially La Niña ravaging the country’s crops for the third consecutive reason, points out the Rosario Grains Exchange (BCR)

  • Friday, December 30th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

    YPF to build lithium batteries in Catamarca

    “We must move from salt to batteries, and from there to the change of the electric system,” Jalil said

    Argentina's state-run Y-TEC YPF plans to install a lithium battery manufacturing plant in the province of Catamarca, according to a deal signed this week between Governor Raúl Jalil and YPF's President Pablo González, it was announced. Also signing the document was Y-TEC (YPF's technological institute) Chief Roberto Salvarezza.

  • Friday, December 30th 2022 - 01:16 UTC

    Tierra del Fuego fires still smoldering

    It has been already a month since a bonfire apparently went out of control

    One month after the forest fires started in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, the authorities are still unable to put down the flames as new “hot spots” keep being found with over 100 firefighters deployed. Over 9,000 hectares of native forests burned down, it was reported.