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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 23:50 UTC

Argentina

  • Thursday, August 1st 2024 - 21:03 UTC

    Brazilian flag flies over Argentine Embassy in Caracas

    Brazil is also representing Peruvian interests in Venezuela

    The Brazilian flag was hoisted Thursday at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, where six Venezuelan asylum seekers were left behind by the departing diplomatic team.

  • Thursday, August 1st 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Brazil representing Argentine interests in Caracas

    The fate of the six opposition asylum-seekers is yet to be known when the Argentine Embassy is vacated

    Brazil's diplomatic mission in Caracas will be representing Argentina's interests starting Thursday at 9 am local time after the Venezuelan regime of President Nicolás Maduro expelled Buenos Aires' delegation given President Javier Milei's decision not to recognize the results of the elections announced last Sunday whereby the incumbent head of state would have been chosen for the 2025-2031 term.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 22:38 UTC

    YPF and Petronas announce joint LNG partnership in Argentine Patagonia

    The Rio Negro location offered numerous advantages over Bahía Blanca, it was explained

    Argentina's state-run oil company YPF and its Malaysian version Petronas will invest over US$ 30 billion to build a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant in the Patagonian province of Río Negro, it was announced, thus ending speculations according to which such a facility was to be or should have been settled in the Bahía Blanca area in the province of Buenos Aires.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Maduro's regime leaves Argentine Embassy powerless

    “We hold the regime responsible for the siege of this diplomatic headquarters, violating international law and the Caracas convention,” asylum seeker Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli wrote on X

    Venezuelan authorities left Argentina's Embassy in Caracas with no electricity supply Tuesday as diplomatic ties between the two countries came to a technical rift while the fate of opposition leaders Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli, Magalí Meda, Claudia Macero, Humberto Villalobos, Facundo Martínez Mottola, and Omar González, who had been granted asylum and were housed there pending a safe passage to the airport that never came was still in doubt.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 07:18 UTC

    Argentina farmers targeting a 2024/25 wheat crop of some 18,6 million tons

    With such a crop, exports are estimated at 12.4 million tons, with main markets in Brazil, followed by Indonesia and several African countries

    The US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture Service, (FAS) estimates that Argentina wheat production from the 2024/25 crop will reach an estimated at 18.6 million tons, up from 15.7 million tons in 2023-24. Planted area increased to 6.2 million hectares with improved conditions in April and May encouraging farmers to plant more than their original plans.

  • Monday, July 29th 2024 - 08:59 UTC

    Milei promises rural producers that things will get better

    “The economic program has times and conditions, we have to look at the movie and not just the photo,” Milei argued

    In his appearance Sunday at the Argentine Rural Society Annual Exhibition's main ceremony in Buenos Aires, President Javier Milei promised to remove all export taxes in due time, for which he asked producers to be patient.

  • Friday, July 26th 2024 - 17:31 UTC

    Milei and Macron discuss bilateral issues in Paris

    France might play a key role in the modernization of Argentina's Armed Forces after Friday's talks between Milei and Macron

    Presidents Javier Milei of Argentina and Emmanuel Macron of France got together Friday at the Elysee Palace ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to discuss ongoing world affairs and bilateral issues. It is the South American leader's 12th trip abroad since his inauguration on Dec. 10, 2023.

  • Thursday, July 25th 2024 - 19:50 UTC

    Argentine Economy Minister meets with IMF Chief in Rio

    Caputo was full of praise for Georgieva as he almost desperately needs fresh IMF funding

    Argentina's Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo met Thursday in Rio de Janeiro with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, who said the encounter had been “constructive.”

  • Thursday, July 25th 2024 - 08:41 UTC

    Fitch says default on Argentine bonds in foreign currency likely

    The scope of Minister Toto Caputo's plan is still unclear, Fitch stressed

    The credit rating agency Fitch outlined Wednesday the possible consequences of Argentina's latest measures, which would aggravate the uncertainty about the South American country's reserves, particularly after some of its gold was shipped abroad, in addition to other financial gambits that would allow for the creation of banking pesos that would jeopardize a return to “global capital markets.”

  • Wednesday, July 24th 2024 - 10:11 UTC

    Milei attending Paris Olympics amid rumors of rift with VP

    Milei was jeered and applauded at the Teatro Colón

    Argentine President Javier Milei is off to Paris to attend the inauguration of the 2024 Olympic Games, leaving Vice President Victoria Villarruel at the helm of the Executive Branch amid mounting rumors that things between the two of them are far from good.