Argentina

• Tuesday, October 11th 2022 - 20:32 UTC

  Argentina: No visitors allowed for hospitalized Hebe de Bonafini

  

  Plaza de Mayo Mothers leader Hebe de Bonafini, aged 93, was hospitalized in La Plata late Monday. Although she was said to be in good health, she will remain at La Plata's Hospital Italiano for monitoring purposes, it was reported.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2022 - 17:56 UTC

  Argentina burdened by high inflation and multiple exchange rates

  

  Argentina's economy seems to have a dark future ahead, according to reports in Buenos Aires media highlighting that inflation in the first week of October alone reached 2.8 % in the price of food.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentina has ten companies in the “bad boys” list for involvement in Falklands oil activities

  

  The Argentine Secretary of Malvinas affairs has included another oil company with interests in the Falklands hydrocarbons industry in the “list of bad boys” for allegedly operating without authorization from Argentina.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2022 - 10:35 UTC

  Argentine president picks 3 women for ministerial posts

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez chose three women to fill the recent vacancies within his cabinet.

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  China increasingly aggressive on the Falklands: “UK stubbornly clings to its colonial sin”

  

  The following is the lead editorial of China Daily's 6 October edition, a newspaper belonging to the Chinese Communist Party editorial and refers to the recent Organization of American States declaration in support of Argentina's claims of Falkland Islands sovereignty.

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:43 UTC

  Chilean Senator outraged at Argentine ministers' Antarctica trip

  

  A Chilean opposition Senator has voiced his concern over the recent presence of Argentine Ministers Jorge Taiana, Daniel Filmus, and Carla Vizotti in Antarctica, as both countries' claims over the territory overlap

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:34 UTC

  Argentine gov't facing cabinet reshuffle

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández is facing a cabinet reshuffle after two other ministers followed up on Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta's resignation last week as Minister of Women, Gender, and Diversity.

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:31 UTC

  Madrid mayor pledges not to allow Peronism 'fiscal populism' into Spain

  

  The mayor of Spain's capital Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and a rising star among the conservative Popular Party has condemned the Spanish Socialist government accusing it of following Argentine Peronism populist policies, underlining that “here in Spain people want to be free”

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Suggested improvements to the Argentine toothfish fisheries if an MSC certification is to be achieved

  

  Argentine scientists from INIDEP have presented a paper on toothfish biologic-catches in the Argentine dissostichus eleginoides fisheries, based on data collected from operations in 2021. The information for the paper originated in official Argentine stats data and that supplied by observers on longliners with ITQ for the species.

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Argentine ministers convene in Antarctica

  

  Argentine Ministers Daniel Filmus (Science), Carla Vizzotti (Health), and Jorge Taiana (Defense) convened at Antarctica's Marambio Base to announce the construction of three new laboratories and other undertakings in the area.