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Argentina

  • Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 10:40 UTC

    Argentina, US sign agreement on security cooperation

    Ambassador Stanley said the agreement was “an evolution of our cooperation and understanding”

    Argentina's Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with US Ambassador Marc Stanley to strengthen security cooperation.

  • Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    Argentine democracy in danger, Lula tells Biden

    “I've never seen an American president speak so much and so well of workers as you have,” Lula also pointed out to Biden

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday warned his US colleague Joseph Biden in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations 78th General Assembly that democracy in Argentina was in danger as “extremist sectors” were gaining ground.

  • Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 09:48 UTC

    Mercosur's future at stake in Argentina's elections, Brazilian minister says

    “I don't know what will become of Mercosur if the agreement isn't closed and we have an 'exotic' election result in Argentina,” Haddad said

    Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said in New York that he believed the future of Mercosur hinged on the outcome of this year's presidential elections in Argentina, Agencia Brasil reported. He also denounced France's attempt to delay the Mercosur-EU trade agreement from becoming effective.

  • Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 09:44 UTC

    Argentine president insists the world needs more equality

    “The global financial architecture only serves to concentrate income and to marginalize vast regions of the world,” Fernández said

    In his last appearance before the United Nations General Assembly, Argentine President Alberto Fernández, who will be leaving office comes Dec. 10, Tuesday called for a change in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) by-laws and and urged greater global equality.

  • Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 08:05 UTC

    Tension between Argentina and Paraguay on the rise

    Massa is trying to confuse the public opinion, Alliana argued

    Tension between Argentina and Paraguay is on the rise after Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa argued that his country had paid for the construction of the Yacyretá Dam between the 1980s and 1990s and was still owed “billions of dollars” for it.

  • Tuesday, September 19th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

    Argentine President asks UN Chief to insist of UK on Islands issue

    Fernández participated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández asked United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres to “renew the good offices efforts” with the United Kingdom regarding the Malvinas/Falklands question, it was reported in New York.

  • Tuesday, September 19th 2023 - 08:19 UTC

    Grim future ahead for CFK

    CFK will have no immunity, parliamentary or otherwise, after Dec. 10.

    Chaco Governor Jorge Milton Capitanich's failure in his reelection bid has triggered a series of setbacks for Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, whose aura is beginning to wane, marking the end of Kirchnerism as the main line within Peronism.

  • Tuesday, September 19th 2023 - 08:09 UTC

    Does Chaco's result herald the demise of Kirchnerism?

    The femicide of Cecilia Strzyzowski two weeks before the provincial PASO tipped the scale against Capitanich

    Last Sunday's results in the gubernatorial elections in the Argentine province of Chaco seem to be heralding new winds of change, as the demise of Peronism and its most recent version -Kirchnerism- appear to be on their way out, according to political analysts in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, September 18th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

    Washington's help called for in Paraná Waterway crisis

    The interests of US companies operating in Paraguay have been affected by Argentina's decision

    With too much negotiating and no solution on the radar, the US-Paraguayan Chamber of Commerce (Usapacc) has asked President Joseph Biden's administration to get involved in the brokering of an answer to Argentina's decision to charge tolls to barges sailing through the Paraná River Waterway.

  • Monday, September 18th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Relatives of Argentine squad fallen during Falklands War return from humanitarian trip

    The Alacran squad's Puma helicopter was shot down at Mount Kent in 1982 but the bodies were not identified until 2021

    Relatives of Argentine combatants of the Alacran squad fallen in the 1982 South Atlantic conflict returned Saturday after visiting the graves of their loved ones following the Second Humanitarian Project Plan (PPH2) agreed with the United Kingdom and the International Committee of the Red Cross work which gave proper names to what was previously labeled under the generic “soldiers known only to God.”