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Montevideo, December 13th 2025 - 16:38 UTC

Argentina

  • Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 08:29 UTC

    Massa among world's top economy personalities of 2022, says Folha

    Massa (L) became some sort of prime minister who saved Alberto Fernández'(R) s government from a political crisis, Folha said

    Argentina's Sergio Massa has been named among the 10 most influential people of the year in the economic and financial world by the leading Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo. The list also includes Elon Musk, Jerome Powell, Bernard Arnault, and Christine Lagarde.

  • Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 01:49 UTC

    Financial mismanagement reported at Argentina's Health Ministry

    Ginés González García was Health Minister at the time of the irregularities

    Serious irregularities have been detected by Argentina's National General Comptroller (AGN) in the handling of Health Ministry funds during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 19:41 UTC

    No casualties in private boat fire off Buenos Aires

    The black smoke could be seen from various parts of Buenos Aires

    All three occupants of a boat that caught fire Tuesday morning off Buenos Aires were rescued alive and in good condition, the Argentine Coast Guard (Prefectura Naval Argentina - PNA) reported.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

    Argentina to receive bivalent Covid-19 vaccines in first quarter of 2023

    So far, the only bivalent vaccines developed and approved for use in humans are the adapted versions of Moderna Spikevax and Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty

    Argentina's Health Ministry Carla Vizzotti insisted that people needed to get an additional shot of Covid-19 vaccine if the last application was over 120 days ago, regardless of the number of doses taken previously, and announced the country would have bivalent vaccines available in the first quarter of 2023.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

    Lula plans to rebuild bridges with South America

    Lula's first trip after his inauguration will be to Argentina

    Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will seek to rebuild ties with its South American neighbors and regain a leading role in the fight against climate change under future Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira, Agencia Brasil reported Monday.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

    Venezuela closer to Mercosur and Argentina

    Ambassador Oscar Laborde has already organized several trade missions to Caracas

    Venezuela's return to Mercosur, the resumption of flights between Buenos Aires and Caracas, and an invitation to President Nicolás Maduro to attend the CELAC summit in Buenos Aires next month are some of the signs showing the Argentine government's rapprochement with Chavismo. In addition to that, a rise in bilateral trade of up to 60% is expected.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 08:11 UTC

    Opposition not happy with President Fernández paying CABA with bonds

    “The TX31 bond with which Alberto Fernández wants to pay CABA is a payment that is not quoted in the market and is not negotiated,” UCR Deputy Mario Negri pointed out

    After Argentine President Alberto Fernández announced Monday that the federal government would abide by last week's Supreme Court (CSJN) ruling and pay the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) its share of the so-called co-participation funds but not with pesos, Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta's administration filed a complaint before the Supreme Court.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 08:05 UTC

    More funding for Argentine-developed Covid-19 booster jab

    The ARVAC Cecilia Grierson vaccine was named after Argentina's first female physician

    Argentina's National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technological Development and Innovation (Agencia I+D+i) granted funding worth AR$ 1.1 billion (around US$ 3.18 million at the unofficial exchange rate) to carry out clinical studies of phases II and III of the “ARVAC Cecilia Grierson” Covid 19 vaccine, it was reported.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 20:41 UTC

    Convicted Colombian drug lord waiting for clearance to enter Argentina

    Ignacio Alvarez Meyendorff is banned from the Argentine territory but claims it is a humanitarian issue due to his diabetes

    A Colombian drug lord was denied entry into Argentina, where he was seeking to avoid deportation. Ignacio Alvarez Meyendorff, 62, arrived at the Ezeiza airport on Avianca's Flight 87 on Dec. 23 from Bogotá but the alarms went off the minute his name was punched into the migrations screens. He has remained at the airport since. He has a wife and four children in Buenos Aires. He

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 20:40 UTC

    Argentine gov't now says it will pay City of Buenos Aires's tax share

    Fernández said he will use bonds instead of pesos

    The Argentine government announced Monday that it will pay the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) its share of the so-called co-participation funds after saying last week that the Supreme Court ruling ordering the measure was untenable and that further appeals “in extremis” would be filed.