Argentina

• Tuesday, March 29th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego Debit cards with the Falklands map for Malvinas Veterans

  

  The Tierra del Fuego province bank has issued special debit plastic cards for Malvinas veterans with a picture of the East and West Falklands map, to mark the fortieth anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict, and reaffirmation of the Argentine claim over the Islands.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Argentine Senators launch bid to tax assets abroad and pay off the IMF

  

  Argentina's ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) lawmakers Monday suggested a new tax on assets and money not declared to the local Treasury and kept abroad be levied in order to pay the country's debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

• Saturday, March 26th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Argentine shipyard Tandanor to handle maintenance of French-built OPVs

  

  Argentina's Navy top brass have met with executives from France's Naval Group and the local shipyard Tandanor to move on with the training of technicians for the maintenance of the four ocean patrol vessels (OPVs) purchased in the last year.

• Saturday, March 26th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  KLM to resume route between Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile

  

  Effective March 27, Dutch carrier KLM will drop its nonstop route between Amsterdam and Santiago de Chile but will continue to serve that destination from Buenos Aires.

• Friday, March 25th 2022 - 16:09 UTC

  IMF Board unanimously approves Argentina deal

  

  The International Monetary Fund's board of directors Friday approved unanimously the latest US$ 45-billion program signed with Argentina, with which the South American country has avoided default.

• Friday, March 25th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentine President says March 24 brings Argentines together

  

  President Alberto Fernández Thursday stressed March 24 was the day when Argentines were stronger together. Hos words came during a ceremony marking a new anniversary of the 1976 coup d'etat aganst Constitutional President María Estela Martínez de Perón.

• Friday, March 25th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  CFK and her son praise Memory Day rally demonstrators

  

  Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Thursday sent a message through social media to the groups who marched onto Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo during the Memory Day commemorations of those fallen under the military dictatorship which came to power March 24, 1976.

• Thursday, March 24th 2022 - 22:40 UTC

  Thousands of Argentines march 46 years after coup d'état

  

  Tens of thousands of Argentines marched again to Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo (Mayo Square) on Thursday, 46 years after the coup d'état that installed a dictatorship responsible for tens of thousands of disappearances, exiles and executions in clandestine centers.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  President Fernández, Georgieva hold talk ahead of IMF's board vote

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Tuesday held a virtual meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, during which he ratified his Government's commitment to the new program agreed upon.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Rio Grande prepares for the Malvinas Vigil and a remake of the Falklands landing 2 April

  

  The municipality of the Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego province, together with the local branch of the Malvinas Veterans have organized an agenda of activities, with an open invitation to all residents from the province and former combatants from the 1982 Falklands war.