Argentina

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  YPF to build lithium batteries in Catamarca

  

  Argentina's state-run Y-TEC YPF plans to install a lithium battery manufacturing plant in the province of Catamarca, according to a deal signed this week between Governor Raúl Jalil and YPF's President Pablo González, it was announced. Also signing the document was Y-TEC (YPF's technological institute) Chief Roberto Salvarezza.

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 01:16 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego fires still smoldering

  

  One month after the forest fires started in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, the authorities are still unable to put down the flames as new “hot spots” keep being found with over 100 firefighters deployed. Over 9,000 hectares of native forests burned down, it was reported.

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Scioli: Brazil once again Argentina's main trading partner

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Brazil and former Vice President Daniel Scioli Wednesday highlighted the importance of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's victory and how it will help consolidate trade between South America's two largest countries.

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Chilean timber company leaves highly volatile Argentina

  

  Chilean timber company Masisa Wednesday announced it had liquidated all its assets in Argentina to abandon all its operations in the highly volatile neighboring country.

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Argentina: New Plaza de Mayo grandson found within one week

  

  Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Wednesday announced that the 132nd grandson taken away from his blood family during Argentina's military dictatorship (1976-1983) had been found just 6 days after the discovery of Grandson # 131.

• Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 19:08 UTC

  Argentina: Colombian drug lord returns home pending legal proceedings

  

  Colombian drug lord Ignacio Álvarez Meyendorff, who spent several days at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport finally decided not to wait for the Argentine's Judiciary decision regarding his rejection by Migration authorities and flew back to his native country, it was reported Wednesday.

• Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 10:57 UTC

  CFK insists there is a proscription on her running for office

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) insisted there was “neither resignation nor self-exclusion” on her part because “here there is proscription,” which is why she claimed she would not be running for any office in 2023.

• Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Argentine peso keeps falling against unofficial US dollar

  

  The unofficial “blue” dollar traded for AR$ 355 Tuesday in Argentina, thus reaching a new record high. It was an AR$ $9 increase in one day, AR$ 30 in one week, and AR$ 41 so far in December.

• Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Argentine wheat crop, one of the least productive in recent history

  

  The Argentine wheat crop, 2022/23 is again suffering the consequences of a prolonged drought and lack of sufficient rain, which means that the overall estimate volume has again been reduced by 300,000 tons to a total of 11,5 million tons, according to the Rosario Grains Exchange.

• Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 09:13 UTC

  Rules for 5G technology approved by Argentine authorities

  

  Argentina's National Communications Bureau (Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones - Enacom) Tuesday approved the General Regulations for the Reliable and Intelligent Telecommunications Service, which will regulate the allocation of frequency bands for the provision and deployment of fifth-generation (5G) systems, it was reported.