Argentina

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  No more home office for Argentine civil servants

  

  The times of home office for Argentine civil servants come to an end effective Monday following a decision by Secretary of Public Management and Employment, Ana Castellani, after COVID-19's critical stage has been deemed to be over.

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Chilean Gov't finally agrees to reopen land borders after 2 years

  

  Chilean authorities Sunday reopened 22 land border crossings with Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, The passages had been reshaped since March 17, 2020, so that only cargo was let through but no travelers, amid restrictive sanitary measures to avoid the spread of COVID-19 into the country.

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:12 UTC

  Uruguayan President makes unofficial one-day trip to Buenos Aires

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou last week took an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight and made a day trip to Buenos Aires Wednesday for “strictly family and private reasons,” it was reported.

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  ARA Libertad sets sail on her 50th instruction journey

  

  Argentina’s Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Saturday bid farewell to the ARA Libertad on her 50th instruction journey for newly-graduated officers of two promotions of the Naval Academy (Escuela Naval).

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Foradori/Duncan deal ignores Argentina: only reflects British interests in Malvinas, claims minister Taiana

  

  Argentine Defense minister Jorge Taiana said that leaving aside former Deputy Foreign minister's alleged conduct during negotiations with British diplomats, --if proven true would be “shameful”--, what is really “serious, negative and disturbing” is that the joint communiqué put an end to Argentine sanctions on foreign companies involved in illegal fishing and oil exploration activities in Malvinas Islands with the authorization of British authorities.

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  ARA Libertad to expose UK's 'disproportionate and provocative' military presence in Malvinas

  

  Argentina plans to reaffirm its sovereign rights over the Falkland Islands and expose the 'disproportionate' British military presence in the Islands when the instruction tall ship ARA Libertad calls on different ports of the world.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 22:26 UTC

  Buenos Aires' Aeroparque opens up to Colombian routes

  

  Argentina's National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) announced earlier this week that it was allowing flights to and from Colombia could operate at Buenos Aires' metropolitan Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport (AEP / SABE).

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 22:23 UTC

  China shares all data from base in Argentine Patagonia, ambassador says

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Beijing Sabino Vaca Narvaja said China shared all the information on the space program with Argentina. His remarks came after US Southern Command Chief, Gen. Laura Richardson, expressed her concerns over the space station the Asian nation runs near the town of Bajada del Agrio in the province of Neuquén.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Mercosur-Europe FTA now or never, EU diplomat in Buenos Aires says

  

  The European Union's Ambassador to Argentina said Thursday that if the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur was to be revived it was now or never.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Duncan downplays comments on Foradori, but damage to Falklands' 2016 Joint Statement has been done

  

  Ex Foreign Office minister for the Americas, Alan Duncan has said that former Argentine deputy foreign minister Carlos Foradori was a formidable negotiator, despite having written in a book on his memoirs that his counterpart in trade, cooperation and Falklands/Malvinas negotiations at the British embassy cellar in Buenos Aires, rang the following morning to say he “was pissed” since the night before he had drank too much.