Argentina

• Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 21:33 UTC

  Several flights in Argentina grounded due to strike

  

  Union protests kept the ARA Libertad from docking on time, union measures halted tire production, and labor measures led to either the cancelation or postponement of several flights Tuesday at Buenos Aires' two airports, as well as in other air terminals nationwide.

• Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentina's economic activity grows 5.6% YoY in July

  

  Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) Monday released a report according to which the country's economic activity grew 5.6% interannually in July.

• Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine President's son stalker to take courses on sexual diversity

  

  An Argentine man in the province of La Pampa will have to take courses on sexual diversity after threatening President Alberto Fernánddez's son last year on social media, as per a plea deal between the plaintiff and the defendant's legal teams announced Monday in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Argentine tires: no solution in sight

  

  Argentine tire manufacturers Monday told the government that “the rights of the companies” were being violated as labor unions seized their plants and prevented work from continuing.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 18:56 UTC

  Argentine Grand North Governors off on trade mission to the US

  

  Argentina's Interior Minister Wado De Pedro and governors of the Grand North Provinces are leaving Monday on a business trip to the United States in search of opportunities during meetings in Washington and New York.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  All tire-manufacturing plants in Argentina close down

  

  Argentina has ceased to be a tire-manufacturing country as labor conflicts resulted in the closing of all three plants nationwide, although some of these measures have been reported to be a temporary issue.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  ARA Libertad held off Buenos Aires due to port workers' strike

  

  Argentina Navy's training vessel ARA Libertad (Q2) was held off Buenos Aires for several hours after a 5-month trip due to a union strike by port workers.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine lab announces local production of Sputnik V vaccine ends

  

  The Argentine laboratory manufacturing Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine has announced it would halt the line to target other types of diseases, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, September 24th 2022 - 10:43 UTC

  CFK links her corruption trial to the murder attempt against her

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Friday told the court judging her for alleged corruption in the awarding of public bids to build roads while she was President (2008-15), that the case under treatment was linked to her assassination attempt earlier this month.

• Saturday, September 24th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Argentina limits door-to-door purchases abroad

  

  Argentina's Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP) tax bureau has lowered the cap from US$ 3,000 to US$ 1,000 on door-to-door online purchases effective Sept. 23, in a move to curb foreign currency expenditures that drain the Central Bank's reserves.