Argentina

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Argentines dump their currency in northern provinces and trade with Bolivian money

  

  With the Argentine economy in shambles, inflation out of control heading for hyper inflation, daily increases of prices, and new clamps to have access to some strong currency, --such as the US dollar, which Argentines love--, along the provincial border towns, particularly with neighboring Bolivia and Paraguay trade is done mostly with Pesos, but Bolivianos.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  FT critical of IMF leniency towards perennial defaulter Argentina

  

  A column published by the Financial Times has stressed that the administration of President Alberto Fernández needed “stricter targets” from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to keep a “weak and populist” government from running astray.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Yet another AMIA bombing anniversary and nobody jailed

  

  Relatives of the 85 casualties and the entire Argentine society Monday wondered once again how it could be that 28 years after the bombing of the AMIA welfare Israeli Association nobody has ever been held accountable.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  Another low-cost airline makes it to Argentina

  

  Wingo, a Colombian budget subsidiary carrier of Panama's Copa Airlines, has been cleared by Argentina's National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) to start operating in the country, although it still needs to confirm its schedules before being allowed to sell tickets.

• Monday, July 18th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Somber future ahead for Argentina's economy

  

  Foreign Analysts do not see a bright future ahead for Argentina's economy. While some place it among the countries most likely to default its debt, others fear it might not survive a new adjustment to the basic interest rates by the United States.

• Monday, July 18th 2022 - 08:45 UTC

  Argentina looks out to the Sea, and celebrates its maritime space is double the land territory

  

  Argentina on Sunday celebrated the “Day of Argentina's Sea interests,” instated in Law 25,860 in honor of Admiral Segundo Storni, who is considered the great sponsor of a national debate on sea issues and seafaring activities, focused as a State policy.

• Monday, July 18th 2022 - 08:25 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego awards Chilean and Nicaraguan ambassadors Malvinas Feat 40th anniversary medallion

  

  Ambassadors from Chile and Nicaragua in Argentina visited the province of Tierra del Fuego where they were awarded medals commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Malvinas Feat, and were congratulated for their respective governments' unrelenting support to the Malvinas Cause.

• Monday, July 18th 2022 - 08:09 UTC

  CFK pushes for universal income for Argentines

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) has been reportedly pressing Economy Minister Silvina Batakis to move forward with a proposal to create the so-called Basic Universal Wage (BUW), as a way out of the current scheme of handouts in the form of endless unemployment subsidies.

• Friday, July 15th 2022 - 22:48 UTC

  Espionage charges against Macri in ARA San Juan case dismissed

  

  A Buenos Aires Federal Court Friday dismissed all charges against former President Mauricio Macri for allegedly spying on the relatives of the crew members of the ARA San Juan submarine killed when the vessel sank in the South Atlantic.

• Friday, July 15th 2022 - 22:40 UTC

  Argentina insists Uruguay-China FTA must go through Mercosur

  

  Argentina's Foreign Ministry Friday issued a statement according to which Uruguay's negotiations with China towards a Free Trade Agreement must go through Mercosur.