Argentina

• Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Buenos Aires: Two arrested in first mass rally against the government

  

  Two people were arrested Wednesday in Buenos Aires as leftwing groups staged a demonstration at Plaza de Mayo to commemorate another anniversary of the 2001 killings of protesters during the uprising against then-President Fernando de la Rúa who eventually resigned.

• Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:43 UTC

  Pot-banging protests surge after Milei's announcement

  

  Many Argentines took to the streets or their balconies Wednesday evening banging pots and pans in rejection of President Javier Milei's emergency decree DNU providing for the deregulation of the country's economy.

• Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:38 UTC

  First human case of equine encephalitis reported in Argentina

  

  Argentine authorities confirmed Wednesday the first case of Equine Encephalitis in a human patient who was hospitalized in Reconquista, in the province of Santa Fe. The last records of humans affected by this disease in the country date back to 1983 and 1996. No vaccines are effective in humans.

• Wednesday, December 20th 2023 - 10:42 UTC

  Argentina: Milei to explain drastic measures

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei will go on national television on Wednesday to explain the scope of his most-encompassing emergency decree (DNU) to deregulate the economy with more than 600 provisions.

• Tuesday, December 19th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  Brazil sees bilateral trade with Argentina falling in 2024

  

  Brazil's main financial and business publication, Valor Economico is forecasting that bilateral trade with Argentina is expected to fall in 2024, based on the recent measures announced by the government of president Javier Milei. In the eleven months of 2023, bilateral trade between Argentina and Brazil reached US$ 27 billion, with Brazilian exports totaling US$ 17bn, and Argentina US$ 11bn.

• Monday, December 18th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  Unprecedented storm: Roof collapses in Bahía Blanca killing 13

  

  At least 13 people were reported dead in the city port of Bahía Blanca some 690 kilometers south of the Argentine capital and three others elsewhere in the province of Buenos Aires after Sunday's storms. Parts of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), where one victim was reported, and other provinces were left without electricity for hours.

• Monday, December 18th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Argentina to buy electricity from Brazil due to storm

  

  Following the disruption caused by last weekend's storms to the country's grid, Argentina will import electricity from Brazil on a transitory basis, it was reported Sunday, in addition to other emergency measures adopted to face the crisis and restore supply in parts of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CAMA) and its Metropolitan Area (AMBA).

• Monday, December 18th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Milei booed at Boca Juniors elections for supporting Macri

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei was jeered and called names Sunday when he cast his vote for Andrés Ibarra for president of Club Atlético Boca Juniors at the iconic Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires before leaving for the storm-hit Bahía Blanca.

• Sunday, December 17th 2023 - 15:59 UTC

  Argentina appoints a new Malvinas Secretary, an academic with vast experience in maritime issues

  

  Argentine foreign minister, Diana Mondino has named Paola Di Chiaro, an academic with a political science background, involved with domestic maritime think tank issues, and linked to German Christian Democrat foundation Konrad Adenauer, as the new head of the Malvinas Islands Secretariat.

• Saturday, December 16th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Argentine company wants to launch satellites from Uruguay

  

  The Argentine company Tlon Space S.A. has been reported to be involved in Uruguay's plans to build an aerospace launch platform on the coast of Rocha to send small satellites into space to collect images.