Argentina

Thursday, November 10th 2022 - 09:42 UTC
Foreign travelers flock to Argentina

Argentina welcomed 410,000 foreign travelers in October, 76% more than in 2019, the last “normal” year before the COVID-19 pandemic and its ensuing restrictions, the Tourism Ministry reported Wednesday.
Thursday, November 10th 2022 - 09:38 UTC
Argentina's industries highlight exports needed to make up for lack of US dollars

Leaders of Argentina's Industrial Union (UIA) Wednesday highlighted the country's export potential, particularly that of Vaca Muerta, to make up for the loss of foreign currency affecting the nation's coffers.
Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 23:04 UTC
Travel expenses to Falklands' Darwin Cemetery are not “abroad,” Argentine taxpayer cries

An Argentine national who visited the Darwin Cemetery on the Falkland Islands to pay his respects to the combatants fallen in the 1982 war was outraged upon his return that his credit card was billing him the surcharges recently created by Superminister of Economy Sergio Massa for expenses abroad.
Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 10:34 UTC
Lawmaker criticized that Argentine national team travels to Qatar with Uruguayan yerba mate

Argentine opposition Congressman Luis Mario Pastori of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), a party forming the Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) coalition, Tuesday noted on social media that the Argentine national football team taking part in the upcoming World Cup finals in Qatar had not prioritized home-made products.
Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 09:44 UTC
Extension granted to companies searching for oil off Argentina's shores

Argentina's Energy Secretariat extended until 2024 the oil offshore exploration permits of ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum (QP) to operate in the Argentine Sea, it was reported earlier this week in the Official Gazette.
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:34 UTC
Pesticides and heavy metals detected in Argentine river waters

According to a report from the National Institute of Agropecuarian Technology (INTA) and the national universities of San Martín (Unsam) and of the Litoral (UNL), a high number of biocides was detected in the Salado River basin in the province of Santa Fe.
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:28 UTC
Argentina to create yet another dollar exchange rate

Argentina's Superminister of Economy, Industry, and Agriculture Sergio Massa Monday announced the creation of yet a new parity between the local currency and the US dollar to be applied to regional economies.
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:24 UTC
Argentine president turns to diplomacy

Argentine President Alberto Fernández has withdrawn himself from domestic confrontations within the ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) by focusing on the international agenda that launches him onto the world's center stage in the coming days.
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 08:39 UTC
Mar del Plata fishermen go on two-day strike over wage bargaining

Fishermen of Mar del Plata's deep-sea Monday launched a 48-hour strike in demand of wage increases of up to 100% to cope with Argentina's inflation and after negotiations with the Business Chambers Caabpa and Caipa yielded no results.
Monday, November 7th 2022 - 20:14 UTC
CFK too smart to run for President again, says Pepe Mujica

Former Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica said Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) is too smart to run for the Casa Rosada next year, according to an interview published by Montevideo's El Observador.