Argentina

• Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentine President already in Barbados for PM meeting

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday landed in Barbados for a meeting Tuesday with Prime Minister Mia Mottley amid strong COVID-19 restrictions for reporters. It is the South American head of state's last stop of an international tour which included Russia and China.

• Monday, February 7th 2022 - 20:14 UTC

  Argentina's YPF to invest US $ 90 million in solar energy

  

  Argentina's Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur Monday presided over the ceremony during which the State-run oil company YPF announced it will invest U$S 90 million to develop a solar energy park in Ullum, in the province of San Juan, where radiation suits best these type of undertakings.

• Monday, February 7th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  “China must respect Falklands' sovereignty”, foreign secretary Truss message to Beijing

  

  Foreign Secretary Liz Truss defended the Falkland Islands as “part of the British family” after Beijing backed Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the South Atlantic islands.

• Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina's closeness to China, Russia worries London amid Ukraine crisis

  

  London is noticing Argentine President Alberto Fernández's foreign policy, particularly Sunday's joint written statement whereby the South American country backed China's claim over Taiwan and, in return, the Government of Xi Jinping supported Argentina's sovereignty quest regarding the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  COVID-19 not the only infectious threat in Argentina

  

  Argentine vacationers can catch diseases other than COVID-19, which can even bring on worse symptoms, it was reported after the Health Ministry announced it had detected cyanobacteria in AMBA (City of Buenos Aires and territories around it) and in the provinces of Entre Ríos, Córdoba and Santa Fe

• Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentina joins Belt and the Silk Road as Fernández and Xi meet in Beijing

  

  President Alberto Fernández has rounded up the Chinese stop of his new international tour by arranging Argentina's entry into the Belt and the Silk Road which will represent financing in excess of US $ 23 billion for the South American country.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 15:42 UTC

  Argentine Judge rules Mapuche group entitled to State-owned land

  

  Bariloche Federal Judge María Silvina Domínguez has ruled that State-owned lands must be handed over to members of a local Mapuche community in a decision many fear might constitute dangerous case-law for future claims, it was reported Friday.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 15:41 UTC

  Moody's warns Argentina's unwritten IMF deal does not avert default

  

  Credit rating consultants Moody's Friday issued a report according to which Argentina's ”long history of failure when implementing International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs” meant the risk of default had not been averted.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 14:03 UTC

  Ambassador Stanley holds talks with Argentine Cabinet Chief Manzur

  

  Following Argentine President Alberto Fernández's remarks to his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin in Moscow, according to which the South American country needed to be freer from the United States and the International Monetary Fund, Washington's envoy to Buenos Aires held a meeting Friday with Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 13:28 UTC

  Argentina closer to producing Sinopharm vaccine locally

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández and directors of the Chinese laboratory which produces the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine met Friday in Berlin in another stop of the head of state's tour.