Argentina

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 19:04 UTC

  Argentine doctors highlight steep drop in COVID-19 vaccination

  

  Argentine physicians have voiced their concern after detecting a low number of children vaccinated against COVID-19 nationwide at a time when the pandemic is not over, it was reported.

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 19:02 UTC

  Real estate prices fall in 90% of Buenos Aires

  

  According to a survey published by Buenos Aires' daily Ámbito, 90% of Buenos Aires' areas recorded a drop in the sale price of real estate property in September of 2022 when compared to the previous month.

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Plan for first binational Conservationist Park underway in Uruguay River

  

  American billionaire Gilbert Butler has purchased some land he intends to hand over to the Argentine province of Entre Ríos and to the government of Uruguay for eco-tourism purposes, it was reported during the weekend.

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine Supreme Cout judge hit by bicycle in the street

  

  Argentine Supreme Court Justice Juan Carlos Maqueda has been hospitalized after being run over Saturday by a cyclist in Buenos Aires' Recoleta neighborhood. Maqueda suffered “a slight traumatism and a superficial cut on his chin,” which was later reported to have required medical stitching.

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Criminal charges filed against Argentine Health Minister

  

  Conservative groups in Argentina have filed a criminal case against Health Minister Carla Vizzotti and other government officials for promoting sterilization among teenagers at the age of 16, it was reported.

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 08:54 UTC

  Lula is the Brazilian version of Alberto Fernández, Bolsonaro's son claims

  

  Brazilian Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro likened Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva to Argentine President Alberto Fernández during a trip to Buenos Aires where he met with local Liberal Congressman Javier Milei in an attempt to boost his father's reelection campaign.

• Saturday, October 15th 2022 - 14:55 UTC

  Argentine State admits responsibility for impunity and cover-ups in AMIA case

  

  Argentina's Justice Ministry Friday admitted during an Inter-American Human Rights Court hearing in Montevideo that the State had “violated rights and was not able to ascertain the truth” in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish welfare association AMIA in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, October 15th 2022 - 14:48 UTC

  Petrobras leaving Argentina to seek more profitable investments

  

  Brazilian oil company Petrobras Friday announced its intention to leave Argentina and has therefore launched the sale of its stake in Posa, its local subsidiary, which holds a 33.6 % of the Río Neuquén Field.

• Saturday, October 15th 2022 - 14:39 UTC

  Last 5 members of Emtrasur freighter's crew acquitted

  

  Argentine Federal Judge Federico Villena Friday ruled in favor of acquitting the remaining five crewmembers of the Venezuelan-Iranian Boeing 747-300 seized at the Ezeiza International Airport citing a lack of evidence to prosecute them for financing terrorist activities.

• Saturday, October 15th 2022 - 14:00 UTC

  Mapuche rebels stage new attack in Argentine Patagonia

  

  A watchman at a Villa la Angostura road construction site was held at gunpoint early Friday by hooded assailants as they set fire to heavy machinery and left a note demanding the release of “Mapuche political prisoners” including the women arrested in the eviction of Villa Mascardi.