Argentina

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  Argentine Defense Minister bids farewell to blue helmets off to Cyprus

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana last week bid farewell to the national troops to be deployed in Cyprus as a part of the United Nations peacekeeping Mission.

• Saturday, January 22nd 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Aerolíneas Argentinas announces return of daily flights to Madrid

  

  Starting in the coming month of April, Aerolineas Argentinas will resume its daily flights between Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport to the Adolfo Suárez-Barajas terminal in Madrid. The frequency had been interrupted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis.

• Saturday, January 22nd 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Buquebús workers stage protest at Buenos Aires port

  

  The Argentine union of maritime workers SOMU Friday staged a protest at the Buquebús terminal in the port of Buenos Aires to keep ships from sailing off to Uruguay in demand of a due wage increase of 23% agreed upon last year.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 20:38 UTC

  Convicted Mapuche leader granted parole in Chile

  

  A Chilean court from Temuco Friday granted parole to Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala, who was serving a prison sentence for the burning of a house and also for possessing firearms.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  First case of flurona in Argentina spotted in Santa Fe

  

  Health officials in the Argentine province of Santa Fe Thursday confirmed the first case of flurona (inFLUenza + coRONAvirus) had been detected in the country in a 3-year-old boy hospitalized in the provincial capital.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 20:16 UTC

  December 2021 marks record oil output for Argentina in last 9 years

  

  In the last month of 2021, Argentina has recorded a total oil output of around 559,000 barrels per day (BPD), thus reaching the highest production for the country over the past nine years, it was reported Thursday.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  OAS condemns presence in Nicaragua, of Iranian official accused of aggravated murder by Argentine justice

  

  Twenty-two-country members from the Organization of American States, OAS, on Wednesday approved a strong statement condemning the presence of the Iranian official Mohsen Rezai in Nicaragua during the taking office ceremony of president Daniel Ortega. Rezai has been indicted by Argentine Justice for his alleged masterminding of the 1994 attack on the Jewish organization Amia in Buenos Aires killing 85 people and injuring dozens.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Seven years after, death of Argentine special prosecutor and alleged Iran connection remain unresolved

  

  On a rainy evening Tuesday 18th January, dozens toured the streets of Buenos Aires in memory of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of his death, a case which remains unresolved by Argentine justice. With umbrellas, dressed in black some carrying candles, flashlights, and flowers, the march reached the Le Parc flats complex, in a posh area of Buenos Aires, where Nisman was found dead with a shot in the head, and an investigation that still has to decide if it was a homicide or suicide.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Soap opera foreign policy: US tells Argentina keep up negotiations with IMF

  

  Last October when Argentine president Alberto Fernandez left for Rome to the G20 leaders' summit, his office informed that he was expecting to meet with US president Joe Biden to among other issues address support for Argentina in its ongoing exhausting negotiations with the IMF.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Argentine lorry drivers stage protest due to Chile's tight sanitary controls

  

  After the Government of Chile reinstated the requirement that people must undergo a PCR test -which must come out negative- to get across the border crossings through the Andes, some 2,000 lorry drivers have been lining up along the Cristo Redentor-Los Libertadores international crossing, which links Mendoza to Valparaíso.