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Montevideo, June 5th 2025 - 20:28 UTC

Argentina

  • Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 10:52 UTC

    Argentine judge rules travel agency should not advertise Malvinas as UK destination

    Judge Cánepa ruled that advertising the United Kingdom as the country of destination when traveling to the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands was misleading

    Judge Guillermo Patricio Cánepa of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) ruled this week that Cruiseline S.R.L. should not mislead potential customers by advertising cruise services to the United Kingdom's “Islas Malvinas.” The magistrate ordered the company to pull its advertising campaign in that regard and recognize Argentina's sovereignty over the archipelago.

  • Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentina: Lower House gives thumbs down to open primaries

    The PASO elections were created in 2009 under CFK and held for the first time in 2011

    Argentina's Lower House approved this week by 162 votes in favor, 55 against, and 28 abstentions, the elimination of the so-called Mandatory, Simultaneous, and Open Primary (PASO) Elections whereby the country's constituencies chose each party's candidates. The measure proposed by the ruling La Libertad Avanza (LLA) of President Javier Milei now needs to be passed by the Senate before it can be implemented in this year's mid-terms.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 12:47 UTC

    Barenboim admits he has Parkinson's Disease

    Barenboim has been a long-time promoter of dialogue between Israel and the Arab world

    Argentine-born conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, KBE, confirmed that he has Parkinson's Disease but nevertheless intends to “maintain as many musical engagements as possible.”

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 09:04 UTC

    Argentina: BCRA REM report foresees 2.3% CPI in January

    The latest REM report showed a slight improvement from its previous issue's projections

    Argentine Central Bank's (BCRA) monthly Market Expectations Outlook (REM) released Thursday foresaw January's Consumer Price Index (CPI) would stand at 2.3%. Back in December 2024, the REM expected it to be 2.5%.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 08:32 UTC

    Covid 19: Milei wants WHO Chief tried for human rights violations

    “We will never forget” what the WHO under Tedros did, Milei warned

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced Thursday that he intends to hold World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accountable “for crimes against humanity” given the measures recommended and adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, the South American country left the WHO, thus following in on US President Donald Trump's steps.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 07:13 UTC

    Brazil needs to purchase 3,5 million tons of wheat, despite higher yields in domestic production, says CEPEA

    Argentina is Brazil’s largest wheat supplier, and the President Milei government has reduced export taxes which should help sales to its Mercosur partner

    Wheat production 2024/2025 in Brazil fell by 2.6% compared to the previous year, with the National Supply Company (Conab) forecasting a harvest of 7.89 million tons in 2024. This also represents an 11.9% reduction in the cultivated area, which shrank to 3.06 million hectares.

  • Thursday, February 6th 2025 - 08:30 UTC

    Milei now wants Argentina to quit the Paris Agreement

    Milei's government keeps taking stage countering progressive measures adopted under previous administrations

    After pulling his country from the World Health Organization (WHO), Argentine President Javier Milei admitted Wednesday in an interview with a French outlet that he intended to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit greenhouse gas emmissions to preserve the planet's temperature from rising. “The environmentalist agenda is a real fraud,” said Milei, thus echoing similar recent statements from US President Donald Trump. To withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Law 27.270 would have to b e repealed by Congress.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 23:06 UTC

    Milei pulls Argentina out of WHO

    Leaving the WHO does not mean leaving the PAHO, Health Minister Mario Lugones explained

    Argentine Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni announced Wednesday during his morning press briefing that his country would be following in on Donald Trump's steps and withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO), which entailed disbursements totaling around US$ 10 million annually.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 13:28 UTC

    Argentine authorities take action against RAM for Patagonia fires

    “I am a militant of the Mapuche cause,” Jones-Huala insisted

    Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said Tuesday that the Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei would be declaring the Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) a terrorist group, in addition to other measures against lonko (leader) Facundo Jones-Huala, who claimed responsibility for the arson-caused wildfires in the Patagonian province of Chubut and urged his comrades to up the armed struggle because all those “tools are valid for the liberation of our people.” Jones-Huala also denied any involvement in the fire affecting El Bolsón in the province of Río Negro. “Against landowners yes, but not against our environment,” Jones Huala said earlier this week.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 09:01 UTC

    Orsi evaluating candidates for Buenos Aires Embassy

    Cánepa is reportedly the frontrunner for the position

    Uruguay's future government to be inaugurated on March 1 is evaluating candidates for the Embassy in Buenos Aires. According to local media, former Assistant Presidential Secretary Diego Cánepa seems to be the leading candidate to fill the vacancy left by Carlos Enciso, who resigned to focus on his possible candidacy for the Florida City Council. Foreign Minister Omar Paganini confirmed the position would remain unfilled until the change of government.