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Argentina

  • Tuesday, June 24th 2025 - 10:12 UTC

    IMF mission arriving in Buenos Aires to monitor progress

    Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo's management fell short of the IMF's reserve target

    A technical mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Bikas Joshi, is due in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to conduct the first review of Argentina's new economic program. The proceedings were initially set for June 15 but postponed to allow more time for the Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei to meet reserve targets.

  • Monday, June 23rd 2025 - 10:51 UTC

    “We are on the right side of history”: Milei defends bombings in Iran

    Milei endorsed Petri's statements

    The Argentine Government of President Javier Milei has publicly supported the recent US and Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    Flag Day showcases rift between Milei and Vilarruel

    Milei spoke from the polo field in Buenos Aires, citing agenda problems to go to Rosario

    The June 20 National Flag Day commemorating another anniversary of General Manuel Belgrano's passing further showcased the rift between Argentine President Javier Milei and Vice President Victoria Villarruel, who appeared at different celebrations hundreds of kilometers apart.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:51 UTC

    CFK sends crowds away from her home and delivers a recorded message

    Milei's is an “unsustainable model,” CFK argued

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner told her followers Friday in a recorded message from her house arrest in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución that Security Minister Patricia Bullrich was seeking “to provoke chaos” and insisted that Javier Milei's policies could collapse sooner or later.

  • Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:24 UTC

    CFK may show up at balcony, court says

     The former President needs to make sure not to alter the neighborhood's normal life

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), under house arrest for a conviction in the Vialidad corruption case, has been fitted with an electronic anklet to monitor her location, as ordered by Oral Federal Criminal Court No. 2 (TOF 2)

  • Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:15 UTC

    Jones Huala's detention too strict, lawers say

     Jones Huala's lawyers say he is endyring humiliating conditions

    Facundo Jones Huala, leader of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), is being held under extremely severe conditions following his June 8 arrest in the Argentine Patagonia city of El Bolsón for encouraging acts of violence, a group of lawyers representing him claimed Thursday.

  • Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:07 UTC

    Argentina: unemployment hits record figures

    Unemployment grew 0.2% yoy in Q1 of 2025

    Argentina's unemployment rate rose to 7.9% in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2021, up 0.2% from Q1 2024 and 1.5% from Q4 2024, according to a report from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) released Thursday in Buenos Aires.

  • Thursday, June 19th 2025 - 10:02 UTC

    Lula and Maduro stand behind the home-incarcerated CFK

    Lula will visit CFK next month during the Mercosur Summit, Pimenta explained

    Presidents Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil Wednesday expressed their solidarity with former Argentine head of State Cristina Fernández de Kirchner after her sentence to six years under house arrest for corruption in the so-called Vialidad scandal was upheld earlier this week.

  • Thursday, June 19th 2025 - 09:15 UTC

    Flybondi has new major stockholders

    The low-cost airline needs to bounce back from its poor public image following numerous delays and cancellations

    A US-based international investment fund has bought a stake in Argentine budget carrier Flybondi, becoming now the company's main stockholder. COC Global Enterprise seeks to strengthen Flybondi's positioning amid plummeting public perception following numerous delays and cancellations. The new co-owners also hope to add new aircraft and expand the company's route network.

  • Thursday, June 19th 2025 - 09:02 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas dispute must be resolved through peaceful and negotiated means, reiterates UN C24

    Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Gerardo Werthein is a very close confident and advisor of President Javier Milei

    The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization on Wednesday adopted a new resolution reiterating its position that the sovereignty dispute over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands between Argentina and the UK, must be resolved through peaceful and negotiated means.