Argentina

• Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Argentina: unofficial dollar crosses psychological AR$ 300 barrier

  

  The unofficial exchange rate between the local peso and the US dollar most commonly used by Argentines, also referred to as “blue,” Tuesday crossed the iconic AR$ 300, reaching an all-time high.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:35 UTC

  A decommissioned C 130 Hercules to honor Argentine combatants fallen in the Falklands' war

  

  A decommissioned Hercules C 130 from the Argentine Air Force and which was involved in combat, transport, surveillance, and supply operations during the Falkland Islands war has arrived at Pilar, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, where there is a monument to the fallen during the 1982 conflict.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:27 UTC

  CFK insists Argentina's Judiciary needs reforms

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Tuesday released a video on social media underlining the reasons why in her view the country's Judiciary needed major reforms.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 22:37 UTC

  Founding member of Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers dies

  

  Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo founding member Delia Giovanola passed away Monday at the age of 96, it was announced in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Argentines dump their currency in northern provinces and trade with Bolivian money

  

  With the Argentine economy in shambles, inflation out of control heading for hyper inflation, daily increases of prices, and new clamps to have access to some strong currency, --such as the US dollar, which Argentines love--, along the provincial border towns, particularly with neighboring Bolivia and Paraguay trade is done mostly with Pesos, but Bolivianos.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  FT critical of IMF leniency towards perennial defaulter Argentina

  

  A column published by the Financial Times has stressed that the administration of President Alberto Fernández needed “stricter targets” from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to keep a “weak and populist” government from running astray.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Yet another AMIA bombing anniversary and nobody jailed

  

  Relatives of the 85 casualties and the entire Argentine society Monday wondered once again how it could be that 28 years after the bombing of the AMIA welfare Israeli Association nobody has ever been held accountable.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  Another low-cost airline makes it to Argentina

  

  Wingo, a Colombian budget subsidiary carrier of Panama's Copa Airlines, has been cleared by Argentina's National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) to start operating in the country, although it still needs to confirm its schedules before being allowed to sell tickets.

• Monday, July 18th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Somber future ahead for Argentina's economy

  

  Foreign Analysts do not see a bright future ahead for Argentina's economy. While some place it among the countries most likely to default its debt, others fear it might not survive a new adjustment to the basic interest rates by the United States.

• Monday, July 18th 2022 - 08:45 UTC

  Argentina looks out to the Sea, and celebrates its maritime space is double the land territory

  

  Argentina on Sunday celebrated the “Day of Argentina's Sea interests,” instated in Law 25,860 in honor of Admiral Segundo Storni, who is considered the great sponsor of a national debate on sea issues and seafaring activities, focused as a State policy.