Argentina

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  Argentina: Foreigner removed from urgent heart transplant recipients list

  

  The Federal Civil and Commercial Court of Appeals in Buenos Aires ordered a foreigner waiting for a heart transplant removed from the recipient's list administered by the National Central Institute for the Coordination of Ablation and Implantation (Incucai) on the grounds that the petitioner is not a permanent resident in the country as required by law.

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 04:58 UTC

  Milei team insists, if elected president “Falkland Islanders will be respected”

  

  “I reiterate it, I repeat it and I reaffirm it, the Islanders living in the Falklands/Malvinas will have their rights respected if Milei becomes president,” emphasized Diana Mondino, most probably foreign minister of Javier Milei, if he is finally elected as the next Argentine occupant of the Pink House in Buenos Aires in the October/November election.

• Friday, September 15th 2023 - 14:25 UTC

  “Malvinas are nonnegotiable, but we must contemplate the people living in the Falklands,” candidate Milei

  

  ”The Malvinas (Falkland) Islands are Argentine, and sovereignty non-negotiable,” underlined Javier Milei, the Argentine Libertarian candidate who next month could be elected as Argentina's next president, putting an end to two decades of Kirchnerism.

• Friday, September 15th 2023 - 11:30 UTC

  Massa announces VAT refunds and raffles to boost Argentina's economy

  

  Argentina's Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa Thursday announced a refund of the VAT paid on basic food basket items for 9 million workers. In a move to discourage unregistered transactions, he is willing to raffle cars and household appliances for retailers and customers, it was explained.

• Friday, September 15th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Argentine national stabbed in Bolivia dies after being denied medical attention

  

  The death of an Argentine national in Bolivia after being denied medical attention has sparked nationalistic anger and calls for retribution measures, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, September 14th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Argentina planning to become a major world exporter of natural gas

  

  Argentina’s government is focusing on stepping up exports of natural gas as production rises in the Vaca Muerta shale gas deposit, with the first goal to halt gas imports by 2024 or 2025 except at times of high winter demand, Energy Secretary Flavia Royon announced

• Thursday, September 14th 2023 - 10:47 UTC

  Paraguay said to have recognized Argentina's right to charge tolls along Paraná Waterway

  

  Argentina's Energy Secretary Flavia Royon said Wednesday that Paraguay had recognized her country's right to charge a fee (toll) to barges sailing along the Parana River Waterway and that the issue at this point was to discuss the price, for which a technical commission will be instated to assess the crossed claims between the neighboring countries for debts related to the Yacyretá Binational Entity (EBY).

• Thursday, September 14th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

  Argentina: August's inflation hits 12.4%

  

  Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) announced Wednesday that inflation for the month of August had reached 12.4% for a total of 124.4% in the last 12 months. The highest monthly rate in over 32 years came after the Aug. 14 devaluation of the Argentine peso. So far in 2023, the Consumer Price Index has accumulated an increase of 80.2%.

• Tuesday, September 12th 2023 - 08:40 UTC

  Paraná Waterway conflict: Paraguayan barge released after paying toll

  

  A Paraguayan barge with fuel seized by Argentine authorities for failure to pay the toll on the Paraguay-Paraná River Waterway has been released after posting nearly US$ 30,000, it was reported.

• Tuesday, September 12th 2023 - 07:23 UTC

  “We will never give up our struggle for Malvinas”, foreign advisor of Sergio Massa

  

  “For us, Malvinas is and must always be an absolutely nonnegotiable and inalienable axis of Argentine foreign policy,” said Argentine ambassador in Switzerland Gustavo Martinez Pandiani, who is acting as the foreign minister of presidential candidate Sergio Massa if he were to win the coming elections next October/November.