Argentina

• Monday, August 14th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Caller tells 911 there was a bomb in Casa Rosada

  

  Argentine authorities said that a security protocol was triggered Sunday when a phone call was received at the 911 line at around 6.20 pm saying there was a bomb at Casa Rosada. According to local media, the threat stemmed from somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires.

• Sunday, August 13th 2023 - 10:37 UTC

  Argentina holding primary elections leading up to Dec. 10 Casa Rosada changeover

  

  A total of 27 tickets have been competing since 8 am local time Sunday in Argentina's Open, Mandatory, and Simultaneous Primary (PASO) elections to decide who may run on Oct. 22 for the Casa Rosada's 2023-2027 term.

• Saturday, August 12th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  Argentina: “Blue” dollar still climbing on last working day before PASO elections

  

  The “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) dollar climbed AR$ 3 and reached AR$ 605 on the last working day before Sunday's Open, Mandatory, and Simultaneous Primary (PASO) elections in Argentina, it was reported Friday in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, the official exchange rate closed at AR$ 300.

• Saturday, August 12th 2023 - 10:47 UTC

  Bird flu detected in dead sea lions on Tierra del Fuego shores

  

  Argentine authorities Friday confirmed the detection of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 in sea lions found dead on the Tierra del Fuego shores.

• Friday, August 11th 2023 - 09:00 UTC

  Bolsonaro wishes Milei good luck for PASO elections

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Thursday released a video wishing Libertarian presidential candidate Javier Milei good luck for next Sunday's Simultaneous, Open, and Mandatory Primary (PASO) elections in Argentina.

• Friday, August 11th 2023 - 08:38 UTC

  Former FARC guerrilla fighter dies in Buenos Aires riots

  

  An Argentine national with a criminal record as a member of the dissolved Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) died Thursday in Buenos Aires after being arrested by the City Police amid riots staged by leftwing groups around the iconic Obelisk, it was reported.

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 11:45 UTC

  Argentina: “Blue” dollar reaches AR$ 600

  

  The “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) dollar in Argentina Wednesday pierced the AR$ 600 barrier for the first time just days ahead of Sunday's Simultaneous, Open, and Mandatory Primary (PASO) elections while the official quotation neared AR$ 300, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 11:37 UTC

  Killing of 11-yr-old girl halts all political rallying in Argentina

  

  All candidates, presidential or otherwise, have suspended their campaign closing rallies for Sunday's Simultaneous, Open, and Mandatory Primary (PASO) elections after Morena Domínguez, an 11-year-old girl, was killed Wednesday when motorbike robbers took her backpack at 7.20 am on her way to school in Lanús, a municipality in the province of Buenos Aires just south of the Argentine capital.

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Uruguayan orange producers said to be retaining cheap Argentine labor

  

  Agricultural producers in the Salto area have been reported to hire Argentine labor from Concordia just across the border and pay them three times less than they would local workers, Uruguay's National Union of Salaried, Rural, and Related Workers (Unión Nacional de Asalariados, Trabajadores Rurales y Afines - Unatra) denounced.

• Wednesday, August 9th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  UK warned EU of “Argentina's misinterpretation” on any Falklands reference

  

  The British press is revealing some of the facts surrounding the European Union/Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit, held in the third week of July in Brussels when Argentina celebrated that in the controversial final communiqué, a reference to the Falklands was changed to Malvinas Islands.