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Montevideo, October 27th 2025 - 10:44 UTC

Argentina

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    Presidential elections: Argentina's ruling party lines up behind Massa

    Unión por la Patria will join forces behind the economy minister with inflation above 100%

    Mighty Economy Minister Sergio Massa will be a presidential candidate in Argentina's upcoming mandatory, open, and simultaneous primary (PASO) elections on behalf of the ruling Unión por la Patria (UP) front, with Cabinet Chief Agustín Rossi as his running mate, it was announced Friday in Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

    Paraná Waterway: Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia back Paraguay

    Argentina's toll was found to be “notoriously excessive” and detrimental to many of the country's interests

    Brazil, Uruguay, and Bolivia Friday supported Paraguay's stance regarding Argentina's decision to charge tolls to barges sailing through the “Port of Santa Fe-Confluencia” section of the Parana River, it was reported in Buenos Aires after a new meeting of the Commission of the Paraguay-Parana Waterway Agreement.

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

    Former death flights aircraft back in Argentine territory

    The former Argentine Coast Guard aircraft is already in Argentine territory. Her last flight will be to Buenos Aires on Monday

    The British-built Shorts Skyvan PA-51 used by Argentina's military dictatorship to throw three Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and two French nuns alive into the sea in one of the so-called “death flights” in 1977 landed Friday at Tucumán and is expected in Buenos Aires by Monday to be added to a museum.

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    ARA Patagonia undergoes successful overhauling

    The Patagonia can carry large amounts of fuel and supplies

    Argentina has completed the overhauling of the ARA Patagonia logistics ship after five months' work at the Arsenal Naval Puerto Belgrano (ARPB) docks, Zona Militar reported.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 23:07 UTC

    China backs Argentina's Falklands claim and warns about “colonial thinking”

    Geng said this way of thinking has a “serious impact” on international relations and order and “seriously damages” the sovereignty, security and development interests of the countries involved.

    Chinese ambassador to the United Nations Geng Shuang has backed Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands and called on countries to abandon “colonial thinking”, warning of its serious implications for the international order.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:47 UTC

    Argentina did nothing to charge toll, Paraguay's Waterway Commission finds

    Argentina has not proven it has rendered any actual service to barges along the Parana River

    Paraguay's National Waterway Commission concluded that Argentina's technical explanations for charging tolls to vessels sailing through the Parana River between the Port of Santa Fe and the Confluence with the Paraguay River were inadequate and that there was no justification for such a unilateral measure, it was reported in Asunción.

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 11:27 UTC

    Argentina again calls on UK for peaceful solution to Falklands/Malvinas dispute

    Santiago Cafiero with part of the Argentine delegation addressing C24

    As announced the Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero on Tuesday morning, in New York, before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization again called on the United Kingdom for bilateral negotiations with Argentina for a pacific and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands.

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 10:34 UTC

    Buquebús ship banned from active service

    Buquebús' Eladia Isabel was found to be in a distressing condition, despite not being operational

    Argentina's Customs General Directorate Tuesday banned Buquebús' Eladia Isabel from River Plate shuttle services to Uruguay due to its “poor condition,” it was reported in Buenos Aires. The vessel's sailing certifications were also found to have expired.

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 04:34 UTC

    Short of US dollars, Argentina advances towards trading and hoarding in Yuan

    The fact that imports from China are paid in Yuan rather than dollars should help Argentina mitigate the loss of reserves in its central bank

    Argentina is increasing its use of Yuan to pay for imports from China, following the renewal and expansion of a currency swap agreement with Beijing. The use of the Chinese currency in bilateral trade amounted to 1.075 billion Yuan (US$ 150.5 million) in May this year. In the first ten business days of June, transactions worth 2.045 billion yuan ($286.3 million) were recorded, according to the Central Bank of Argentina Argentine Central Bank’s report on June 15.

  • Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Bolivia pumping nearly half the gas it used to sell to Argentina

    YPFB President Armin Dorgathen admitted that the gas not used in the ammonia and urea plant will be exported to the Argentine market

    Bolivia pumped last month nearly half the gas it used to send to Argentina in May of 2022 due to output problems as demand increases due to cold weather, it was reported by El Deber citing data from the Departmental Center for Monitoring and Control of Hydrocarbons of the Santa Cruz Government and the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy.