Argentina

• Saturday, October 15th 2022 - 14:00 UTC

  Mapuche rebels stage new attack in Argentine Patagonia

  

  A watchman at a Villa la Angostura road construction site was held at gunpoint early Friday by hooded assailants as they set fire to heavy machinery and left a note demanding the release of “Mapuche political prisoners” including the women arrested in the eviction of Villa Mascardi.

• Saturday, October 15th 2022 - 06:27 UTC

  Mercosur wheat: Argentina lack of water, in Brazil is has been pouring for the last month

  

  Extreme situations with the Mercosur wheat crop: while in Argentina drought is drastically cutting production volumes, in Parana, one of the leading wheat states in Brazil, rainfall has plagued harvests.

• Friday, October 14th 2022 - 20:37 UTC

  Argentine President meets South Korea's Prime Minister at Casa Rosada

  

  South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was welcomed Friday at Casa Rosada by Argentine President Alberto Fernández after arriving Thursday in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, October 14th 2022 - 20:34 UTC

  IAHRC hearing on Argentine State's responsibility in AMIA case

  

  The Argentine State's negligence in the July 18, 1994, bombing of the AMIA Jewish society and the subsequent investigation is under trial in Montevideo before the Inter-American Human Rights Court.

• Friday, October 14th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Argentina close to new deal with Paris Club

  

  Economy Minister Sergio Massa Thursday announced he was close to reaching an agreement with the Paris Club for the repayment of Argentina's debt due by May 2020, which was affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 21:30 UTC

  Macri reminds he has not signed up for next year's Argentine primaries

  

  Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri Thursday said in a radio interview that he would not be a candidate in the 2023 elections, despite all signs pointing in that direction after the announcement of his new book to be released on Oct. 18.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  IDB grants Argentine US$ 700 mn loan

  

  Argentina is to receive US$ 700 million to increase the Central Bank's reserves after the IDB Board of Directors agreed Wednesday to a Special Development Financing (SDL) package in light of Superminister Sergio Massa's presence in Washington DC for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Argentina: Pichetto to make presidential bid in 2023

  

  Argentina's comptroller and former Vice-Presidential candidate Miguel Ángel Pichetto Wednesday launched his 2023 bid for Casa Rosada on behalf of “Encuentro Republicano Federal,” the Peronist leg to enter the primaries within the Together for Chance (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) opposition alliance.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:47 UTC

  President of the Mexican Hunting Federation dies in Argentina after being rammed by a buffalo

  

  The president of the Mexican Hunting Federation, Mario Alberto Canales, died in Argentina when he was rammed by a buffalo he was trying to hunt in the province of Entre Ríos, in the northeast of the country, police sources reported Wednesday.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:41 UTC

  Mayor of Buenos Aires wants federal gov't to quit improvising

  

  Following the President Alberto Fernández administration's creation of a so-called “Qatar dollar” for transactions abroad with credit cards, Buenos Aires Mayor and potential presidential candidate said nobody will “invest in Argentina with so many exchange rates.”