Argentina

Tuesday, January 5th 2021 - 09:36 UTC
Dry weather threatens southern Brazil and eastern Argentina

Dry weather across some of the major producing regions in South America is putting upward pressure on corn and soybean prices at the start the new year. Dryness is expected to continue through the short term across southern Brazil and especially in the main-producing states in Argentina.
Monday, January 4th 2021 - 05:15 UTC
Argentina's grain inspectors' union expect to reach a salary agreement this Monday

Argentina's grain inspectors' union, Urgara, said on the last day of 2020 that its members will continue to strike over the weekend after failing to strike a wage deal despite two meetings with the Chamber of Private and Commercial Ports (CPPC).
Friday, January 1st 2021 - 22:41 UTC
South Atlantic area of global contention? US Coast Guard off to South America to patrol for IUU fishing

The following piece by Gidget Fuentes in USNI News offers an account of the mission of USCGC (WMSL/758) Stone, fresh from Shipyard and Quarantine, and which departed Mississippi on 22 December for Southern Atlantic Patrol:
Thursday, December 31st 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Argentina's regulator approves the AstraZeneca and Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine

Argentina's regulator on Wednesday approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, AstraZeneca said in a statement.
Thursday, December 31st 2020 - 08:30 UTC
Argentina suspends corn export sales until March; farmers' surprised and furious

Argentina will suspend sales of corn for export until Feb. 28, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday, announcing the surprise move as part of the government's effort to ensure ample domestic food supplies.
Wednesday, December 30th 2020 - 09:10 UTC
Argentina approves bill to legalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy

Argentina's Senate voted to legalize elective abortion early Wednesday, marking a historic political shift in the heavily Catholic country and larger region.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:39 UTC
Malvinas Veteran in tears after his Argentine military ID was sold on the UK eBay website

By Heather Briley for MercoPress

LONDON, UK – Almost forty years after the Falklands conflict the identity document of an Argentine soldier has been sold on the UK eBay website. It belongs to the director of the Malvinas Museum in Buenos Aires, Edgardo Esteban, 58. He expressed his dismay at the sale and was moved to tears that it had surfaced after all this time.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:26 UTC
Argentina will begin inoculation with the Russian vaccine on Tuesday

Argentina will begin vaccinating its citizens against coronavirus on Tuesday using the recently delivered Russian Sputnik V vaccine, the government said on Saturday, following its approval by health authorities for emergency use.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:15 UTC
Argentine Senate debates abortion bill on Tuesday; tight vote but with good chances of passing

The Argentine Senate will on Tuesday debate a Bill that, if it passes into law, would make the country by far the largest in Latin America to legalize abortion. The proposed legislation would allow women to terminate pregnancies up until the 14th week. Currently, abortion is allowed only in cases of rape and when there is a threat to the life of the mother.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 08:30 UTC
Argentina's soy oil manufacturers and exporters unions' strike could end this week

Argentina's influential chamber of soy oil manufacturers and exporters on Sunday improved an offer to striking workers, seeking to end a more than two-week standoff that has bogged down exports from one of the world's main breadbaskets.