Argentina

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Kirchnerite Senator wants more repression on parallel dollar traders

  

  Hardline Kirchnerite Senator Juliana Di Tullio has demanded Argentine police play a deeper role in chasing currency exchange parlors where US dollars are traded at the unofficial “blue” rate of around AR$ 337.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:49 UTC

  Biden-Fernández meeting put off due to US President's COVID-19

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández was told to wait for his one-on-one meeting with his US colleague Joseph Biden, who, despite announcements from the White House that he was doing well after testing positive for COVID-19, has been forced to rearrange his engagements involving personal appearances.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:40 UTC

  Alberto Fernández warns rural producers they “will not twist” his arm

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday insisted that many of the country's problems stemmed from the reluctance of agriculture exporters to liquidate the over US$ 20 billion they have collected from sales abroad over the past few months, out of speculation regarding the exchange rate between US currency and local pesos.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 23:04 UTC

  Argentine presidential spokeswoman enters Instagram contest to win a dildo

  

  Argentina's Presidential Spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti made the headlines Friday after she was spotted on Instagram entering a Friend's Day contest to win a dildo, which was promoted under the slogan “Your clitoris is your best friend. Give it a gift.”

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine Navy to auction decommissioned ships

  

  The Argentine Navy has announced it will auction seven vessels that have already been decommissioned, many of which had been unoperational since 2013, it was reported.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina's foreign trade balance yields deficit in June

  

  Argentina's foreign trade balance came out in the red in June of 2022 for the first time since 2018, it was reported in Buenos Aires by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC).

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Plenty of business opportunities available with China, Argentine report says

  

  A report released Thursday by Argentina's Undersecretary for Trade and Investment Promotion Pablo Sívori highlighted the progress over the past 20 years of trade between his country and China, which rose from US$ 1 billion to nearly US$ 20 billion yearly.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Ushuaia expects a record cruise season with 540 vessel calls confirmed

  

  Tierra del Fuego Ports' Authority has announced that climate permitting, this coming 2022/2023 cruise season Ushuaia is expecting some 540 vessel calls, making it probably a record season both in the number of passengers and vessels. At the height of the season, eighteen vessels will be visiting the Argentine extreme south city.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentina creates differential exchange rate for foreign travelers

  

  Argentina's monetary authorities Thursday launched an initiative whereby foreign tourists may sell up to US$ 5,000 through official banking channels at a rate as close as possible to the so-called “blue” dollar.

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 21:20 UTC

  Uruguay refuses to sign Mercosur Summit's joint statement

  

  The Government of Uruguay Thursday refrained from signing the joint document penned at the Mercosur Summit in Asunción, on the grounds that it lacked any mention of flexibilization, which the Luis Lacalle Pou administration needs to broker one-on-one deals with other blocs or countries or blocs of the block.