Argentina

• Saturday, January 18th 2025 - 10:15 UTC

  Villarruel in charge of Argentina's Executive due to Milei's trip

  

  Argentina Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni posted on X Friday that Vice President Victoria Villarruel was to be briefed shortly that she was to take over the Executive Branch given President Javier Milei's trip to Washington to attend Donald Trump's inauguration and to Davos for a World Economic Forum (WEF) convention, among other engagements.

• Friday, January 17th 2025 - 21:42 UTC

  Power cuts hit Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area and other parts of Argentina

  

  Several areas in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and Rosario in the province of Santa Fe have been suffering prolonged power cuts which enraged residents who, in addition, were deprived of state subsidies on their electricity bills and are therefore paying full fare in exchange for... literally nothing.

• Friday, January 17th 2025 - 09:15 UTC

  Argentina accepting other currencies besides pesos

  

  Effective Friday, Argentines will be allowed to fill out price tags in the currency of their choice (most likely US dollars), the Central Bank (BCRA) announced Thursday, in what has been regarded as a first step towards the dollarization of the economy, one of President Javier Milei's electoral promises.

• Friday, January 17th 2025 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina to blend Montevideo diplomatic missions into one

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei's “chainsaw” policies reached the South American country's diplomatic efforts: After recalling Ambassador Martín García Moritán from Uruguay citing “service reasons,” Buenos Aires announced it would be unifying its presence in Montevideo under one single Ambassador who would also be representing the country before the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).

• Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 10:14 UTC

  Argentina recalls Ambassador in Montevideo due to “service reasons”

  

  Ambassador Martín García Moritán has been removed from the Argentine mission in the Uruguayan capital and ordered back to Buenos Aires, according to Presidential Decree 29/2025 published Wednesday in the Official Gazette. The measure was adopted barely over a month before President-elect Yamandú Orsi's March 1 inauguration. The career diplomat had been appointed on Feb. 19, 2024.

• Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

  Alleged Islamist terrorist arrested in Argentina

  

  Argentine authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of an Islamist individual who was allegedly planning an imminent attack on home soil. “The plan was very advanced, in its last stage...,” Security Minister Patricia Bullrich explained. The suspect posed “a concrete threat to national security,” she also pointed out. “We thwarted his plans before he could cause any harm,” she insisted.

• Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 10:29 UTC

  Indec announces Argentina's inflation in 2024 reached 117.8%

  

  Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI) went up 2.7% in December 2024 for an accumulated 117.8% last year, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) said Tuesday in a report released in Buenos Aires. It was the lowest monthly rate since July 2020 amid strict Covid-19 lockdowns, when inflation reached 1.9%.

• Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 09:48 UTC

  Busy cruise season for Ushuaia, 14 vessels in a week

  

  A busy week for Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina with some fourteen cruise vessels, mostly heading for Antarctica calling at the capital of Tierra del Fuego province, and involving 4,500 passengers.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2025 - 10:18 UTC

  Former Bariloche official shot in Rio dies

  

  A 51-year-old Argentine traveler who was mugged and shot in the head in a Rio de Janeiro favela on Dec. 12, 2024, after mistakenly following GPS directions, died Monday after nearly a month in the Souza Aguiar Municipal Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Gastón Burlón was a former Tourism Secretary in the Patagonian skiing resort of Bariloche until 2023.

• Monday, January 13th 2025 - 06:44 UTC

  IMF warns Milei about increasing poverty amid exchange rate controls

  

  Despite approving Argentine President Javier Milei's management in a broad way, the International Monetary Fund suggested the South American country should pay more attention to exchange rate arrears and the increasing poverty.