Argentina

• Tuesday, September 19th 2023 - 08:09 UTC

  Does Chaco's result herald the demise of Kirchnerism?

  

  Last Sunday's results in the gubernatorial elections in the Argentine province of Chaco seem to be heralding new winds of change, as the demise of Peronism and its most recent version -Kirchnerism- appear to be on their way out, according to political analysts in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, September 18th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  Washington's help called for in Paraná Waterway crisis

  

  With too much negotiating and no solution on the radar, the US-Paraguayan Chamber of Commerce (Usapacc) has asked President Joseph Biden's administration to get involved in the brokering of an answer to Argentina's decision to charge tolls to barges sailing through the Paraná River Waterway.

• Monday, September 18th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

  Relatives of Argentine squad fallen during Falklands War return from humanitarian trip

  

  Relatives of Argentine combatants of the Alacran squad fallen in the 1982 South Atlantic conflict returned Saturday after visiting the graves of their loved ones following the Second Humanitarian Project Plan (PPH2) agreed with the United Kingdom and the International Committee of the Red Cross work which gave proper names to what was previously labeled under the generic “soldiers known only to God.”

• Sunday, September 17th 2023 - 08:09 UTC

  “The Falklands problem is not the Islanders or the English, but us Argentines,” points out Cisneros

  

  The Falklands/Malvinas will eventually be returned to Argentina but that is going to be a long, long road, forecasted Andres Cisneros a retired Argentine diplomat expert in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute and deputy foreign minister with Guido Di Tella in the nineties.

• Sunday, September 17th 2023 - 08:04 UTC

  Against all odds Milei team insists Falkland Islanders rights must be respected, “they are Argentine citizens”

  

  “I reiterate it, I repeat it and I reaffirm it, the Islanders living in the Falklands/Malvinas will have their rights respected if Milei becomes Argentine president,” emphasized Diana Mondino underlining her statements in an interview with The Telegraph which was considered highly controversial and criticized in Argentina by politicians and the media.

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 11:23 UTC

  Malvinas Council rejects Libertarian candidate's statement on Falklanders' rights

  

  Argentina's Malvinas Council issued a statement condemning the stance of presidential candidate Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party regarding the “self-determination” of the Falkland Islanders and insisted that “the pretended reference of the islanders as a third party to the dispute is a central component of the British diplomatic strategy.”

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  Milei's interview with Tucker Carlson reaches record audiences

  

  With over 300 million screenings in 24 hours, Argentine Libertarian Congressman and presidential candidate Javier Milei's interview with controversial US journalist Tucker Carlson has become the most-viewed video on X, Elon Musk's social platform formerly known as Twitter, it was reported Friday.

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

  Fernández thanks G77+China for supporting Argentina's claim over Falkland/Malvinas

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández warned Friday in Cuba that there is still “a dominant world and a dominated world” while calling all countries attending the G77+China Summit in Havana to “put an end to it forever.”

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  Argentina: Foreigner removed from urgent heart transplant recipients list

  

  The Federal Civil and Commercial Court of Appeals in Buenos Aires ordered a foreigner waiting for a heart transplant removed from the recipient's list administered by the National Central Institute for the Coordination of Ablation and Implantation (Incucai) on the grounds that the petitioner is not a permanent resident in the country as required by law.

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 04:58 UTC

  Milei team insists, if elected president “Falkland Islanders will be respected”

  

  “I reiterate it, I repeat it and I reaffirm it, the Islanders living in the Falklands/Malvinas will have their rights respected if Milei becomes president,” emphasized Diana Mondino, most probably foreign minister of Javier Milei, if he is finally elected as the next Argentine occupant of the Pink House in Buenos Aires in the October/November election.