Argentina

Friday, April 14th 2023 - 10:53 UTC
Minister Fernández sees “blood and corpses” should the opposition win

Argentina's Security Minister Aníbal Fernández Thursday warned of the consequences of the opposition winning this year's presidential elections and foresaw “streets full of blood and dead people” should either Patricia Bullrich or Javier Milei reach Casa Rosada.
Friday, April 14th 2023 - 10:40 UTC
Argentina: “Blue” dollar hits psychological AR$ 400 mark

The unofficial exchange rate known as “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) between the Argentine peso and the US dollar crossed the psychological US$ 1 / AR$ 400 barrier Thursday just a few days after the “agro” rate was implemented in a move to curb the volatile parity.
Friday, April 14th 2023 - 09:43 UTC
Former Uruguayan President Lacalle Herrera hospitalized in BA

Former Uruguayan President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera has been hospitalized in Buenos Aires to receive antibiotic treatment for a spider bite, according to local press reports.
Friday, April 14th 2023 - 09:25 UTC
Scioli insists he will make new attempt to reach Casa Rosada

Former Argentine Vice President Daniel Scioli insisted Thursday that he would make another attempt to reach Casa Rosada after losing the 2015 runoff to Mauricio Macri.
Friday, April 14th 2023 - 09:14 UTC
Taiana visits Brazilian submarine shipyard

Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana toured a Brazilian shipyard in Rio de Janeiro, the official news service Télam reported Thursday. The state-owned facilities are specialized in submarines and were opened in 2009.
Thursday, April 13th 2023 - 10:57 UTC
Argentina working with dengue as with Covid-19

Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Wednesday said her country was treating the dengue outbreak with the same degree of concern with which the Covid-19 pandemic was handled.
Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 11:06 UTC
Another consequence of historic Argentine drought: it could lose its position as world's main soy meal exporter

Argentina could soon face the consequences of the historic drought ravaging its agricultural and industrial processing potential. This means the country may soon cease to be the world’s largest exporter of soy-meal, since domestic oilseed production, because of the historic drought is likely to reduced by 36% year-on-year to just 27 million tons in the 2022/23 cycle, said the Rosario Stock Exchange (BCR).
Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 10:37 UTC
Buenos Aires Mayor distances himself from party leadership

Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodíguez Larreta's decision to hold municipal elections concurrently with the federal ones albeit with different (and electronic) ballot boxes has sparked friction among Argentina's opposition Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) coalition, particularly from former President Mauricio Macri.
Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:59 UTC
Argentine politicians invited to Cambridge University symposium on governance (Malvinas issue expected to creep in)

A group of Argentine politicians, have been invited to a political symposium organized by the University of Cambridge in UK, to address among other issues governance, environment and the impact of new technologies.
Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:53 UTC
Dengue positive cases in Argentina double in a week

According to public health numbers from the Health Ministry, mosquito-transmitted Dengue cases in Argentina have grown exponentially, reaching 28,235 which represents a 74% increase over the previous epidemiological report.