Argentina

• Monday, February 9th 2026 - 04:09 UTC

  Argentina regulates ‘Inocencia Fiscal’ to bring ‘mattress dollars’ into the banking system

  

  Argentina’s government has issued the implementing rules for its Inocencia Fiscal law, formally activating a voluntary Simplified Income Tax Regime (RSG) aimed at encouraging taxpayers to bring undeclared savings —popularly known as “mattress dollars”— into the formal economy, while shifting enforcement toward compliance “going forward.”

• Saturday, February 7th 2026 - 23:24 UTC

  Argentina tightens illegal fishing enforcement, elevating satellite tracking as evidence

  

  Argentina has tightened its enforcement framework against foreign vessels suspected of illegal fishing inside its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), giving greater evidentiary weight to satellite records and other remote sensors to open proceedings and impose fines, under a new regulation published in the Official Gazette.

• Thursday, February 5th 2026 - 15:14 UTC

  Argentine scientists film rare “giant phantom jelly” measuring about 11 meters in the South Atlantic

  

  An Argentine-led deep-sea expedition has recorded rare footage of Stygiomedusa gigantea—the so-called giant phantom jellyfish—in waters off Argentina, offering an unusual look at a species seldom observed alive in its natural environment. The animal was filmed at around 250 meters depth by the remotely operated vehicle SuBastian during the “Vida en los extremos” campaign aboard the research vessel R/V Falkor (too), involving scientists from CONICET and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

• Thursday, February 5th 2026 - 12:34 UTC

  Argentina, US set to stage ‘Atlantic Dagger’ in high-profile special forces drill

  

  Argentina and the United States are finalizing plans for “Daga Atlántica” (Atlantic Dagger), a joint special operations exercise expected to become one of the most politically significant bilateral defense activities in recent years—aimed at boosting interoperability, shared procedures and combined planning.

• Thursday, February 5th 2026 - 05:41 UTC

  Pope Leo XIV set to visit Peru later in 2026, bishops say, as planning advances

  

  Peru’s Catholic bishops say preparations are under way for Pope Leo XIV to travel to Peru in November or the first week of December, a trip that would take the first U.S.-born pontiff back to a country where he served as a bishop and later obtained Peruvian citizenship.

• Thursday, February 5th 2026 - 00:36 UTC

  The RRS Shackleton incident when an Argentine destroyer opened fire on the research vessel

  

  On this day but in 1976 a very serious incident occurred in the South West Atlantic when the British research vessel RRS Shackleton was intercepted and fired upon by the Argentine destroyer ARA Almirante Storni, some 78 miles south of Cape Pembroke in the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2026 - 02:51 UTC

  Argentine shares slide in New York as country risk climbs above 500 points

  

  Argentine stocks and hard-currency bonds fell on Tuesday, hit by a risk-off turn in global markets and fresh domestic uncertainty tied to the stalled overhaul of inflation measurement following Marco Lavagna’s departure from INDEC.

• Tuesday, February 3rd 2026 - 12:34 UTC

  Argentina’s stats chief quits as Milei’s government freezes inflation index overhaul

  

  Argentina’s national statistics agency, INDEC, said its director, Marco Lavagna, stepped down on Monday after more than six years in the post, just as the country was preparing to launch a revamped consumer price index (CPI). Within hours, Economy Minister Luis Caputo confirmed the methodology change would be delayed indefinitely “until the disinflation process is consolidated,” with no new date set.

• Monday, February 2nd 2026 - 18:12 UTC

  First three weeks Illex squid catches in Argentina considered “encouraging”

  

  The Illex squid season in Argentina, taking into account catches of the three first seeks of 2026 can be considered, “encouraging”, according to Marcela Ivanovic, head of the Cephalopods’ Program from the Fisheries Research and Development Institute, INIDEP.

• Monday, February 2nd 2026 - 08:05 UTC

  New Epstein documents tie him to power and mention a prominent Argentine businessman

  

  A fresh release of Jeffrey Epstein-related records by the U.S. Department of Justice has reignited global scrutiny of the late financier’s web of contacts and influence. The trove—published under the “Epstein Files Transparency Act”—runs into millions of pages and also includes videos and images, according to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.