Argentina

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Pepe Mujica receives yet another honorary university degree

  

  Former Uruguayan President (2010-2015) José Mujica has been awarded Wednesday an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC) in the Argentine province of Córdoba for being “one of the main voices critical of savage capitalism.” Teachers, authorities, and students of the UNRC proposed the distinction for Mujica's “extensive career in political and social militancy.”

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 09:21 UTC

  Fifth case of monkeypox detected in Argentina

  

  Argentine health authorities have confirmed a fifth case nationwide of monkeypox, it was reported Wednesday.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 08:00 UTC

  Longest-living woman in Argentina dies aged 115

  

  Although born in Paraguay, Casilda Benegas de Gallegos used to be Argentina's longest-living woman. She died in Mar del Plata at the age of 115, after surviving a bout of COVID-19 in 2020.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 02:11 UTC

  Argentine opposition Congressman meets with Uruguayan President

  

  Argentine Congressman Rogelio Frigerio of the opposition JxC coalition held meetings with Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou and other Multicolor Coalition leaders to discuss the situation of the Uruguay River as well as the need to improve integration processes between the two countries, including possible changes to Mercosur.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 21:09 UTC

  Argentine President visits hospitalized convicted social leader

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Wednesday traveled to the province of Jujuy to pay a visit to social leader Milagro Sala, who has been hospitalized after suffering a deep vein thrombosis while under arrest.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Russia endorses Argentine, Iran joining BRICS

  

  Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Tuesday said his country would welcome the enlargement of the BRICS bloc made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa by adding Argentina and Iran to the list of member nations.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  IMF wires nearly US$ 4bn to Argentina's coffers

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has wired US$ 3,980 million to Argentina, thus boosting the country's reserves to US$ 42,139 million, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 21:09 UTC

  Argentine Minister shown plans for automaker recovery

  

  Argentina's Productive Development Minister Daniel Scioli has been delivered an investment plan by automaker Renault with which the company intends to boost its presence in the country and help reactivate the economy.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentine President tells G7 dialogue was needed to solve Ukraine crisis

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday told attendees at the G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany, that tax havens “generate social hells,” and called for a new international financial architecture that would be inclusive of “the peripheries of the world.”

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Unemployment for skilled laborers finds new ground in Argentina

  

  The German magazine Der Spiegel published back in 1993 an issue with a drawing on its cover mentioning “Dr. Arbeitslos” (Dr. Unemployed) which reported on the dubious future of holders of post-graduate degrees in a labor market that seemed to have no need for them.