Argentina

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  Boom year for Brazilian farmers with record soybean crop and drought punishing Argentine production

  

  Brazil’s soybean output and exports in 2023 will be higher than expected, Brazilian oilseed lobby Abiove announced this week, as local farmers harvest a bumper crop. Abiove now estimates Brazil’s soy production at a record 153.6 million tons, one million more than the last projection last January.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

  Dengue kills 6 in Argentina

  

  Health authorities in the Argentine province of Tucumán Tuesday reported three more deaths due to dengue, which after last week's casualties, brings the total number of fatalities to six nationwide.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2023 - 11:11 UTC

  Argentina becoming net importer of soybean to feed its grain processing industry

  

  Argentina’s soybean imports are expected to more than double this season due to the devastating impacts of the historic drought on the country’s 2022/23 harvest, the country’s Rosario grains exchange said in a report.

• Monday, March 27th 2023 - 19:45 UTC

  Argentina bans the sale and import of e-cigarettes

  

  The Ministry of Health of Argentina has prohibited the importation, distribution, commercialization, and advertising of different types of electronic cigarettes and their accessories “throughout the national territory”, due to their potential harm to health.

• Monday, March 27th 2023 - 10:56 UTC

  Macri will not be running again for president of Argentina in 2023

  

  Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri Sunday announced through a video posted on social media that he will not be making a new attempt to reach Casa Rosada this year.

• Monday, March 27th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

  Declaration of Santo Domingo supports Argentina's claim over South Atlantic islands

  

  The XXVIII Ibero American Summit -the first to be held on-site after the Covid-19 pandemic- concluded Saturday with the so-called “Declaration of Santo Domingo” whereby the group reportedly supported Argentina's claim to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands together with other issues such as gender equality, energy transition, and the promotion of Spanish / Portuguese bilingualism.

• Sunday, March 26th 2023 - 14:55 UTC

  Fernández thanks Ibero-American Summit support on Malvinas

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Saturday thanked att attendees at the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit for their unanimous support in a joint declaration urging the United Kingdom to resume talks regarding the Falklands/Malvinas Islands issue.

• Saturday, March 25th 2023 - 10:57 UTC

  Argentina: Human Rights groups commemorate 24M at Plaza de Mayo

  

  Human rights and leftwing militants convened Friday at Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the last military coup d'état in the country and to insist that “Never Again” should democracy be taken away from Argentines.

• Friday, March 24th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentina's 2022 GDP shows improvement from previous year

  

  Argentina's Gross Domestic Product (GDP - the sum of all products and services traded) grew by 5.2% in 2022, a 1.9% improvement from 2021, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) reported Thursday in a study that also showed that last year's fourth quarter GDP was 1.9% higher than that of the same period of 2021, but 1.5% below the third quarter of 2022.

• Thursday, March 23rd 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Argentine gov't to pesify state-held securities in foreign currency

  

  Argentina's Economy Minister Sergio Massa and his aides held a working lunch Wednesday with a group of businessmen from banks, insurance companies, and investment funds, during which the new measures adopted to control a ballooning exchange rate between the local currency and the US dollar were outlined.