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Argentina

  • Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentina's intelligence bureau to digitize State terrorism files

    The preservation of these documents is essential to enact the rights to truth, justice, reparation, and non-repetition of human rights violations, Pecar explained

    Argentina authorities have announced a plan to digitize over 250,000 documents on State terrorism carried out under various military regimes in the country's history, it was announced in Buenos Aires.

  • Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

    Argentina's Central Bank raises reference rate to cope with inflation

    Argentina has the region's worst inflation and is second only to Russia worldwide

    Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) has adjusted the basic interest rate by 250 basis points to 47% per annum in nominal terms in a move to counter the effects of rampant inflation.

  • Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

    Argentina: CFK acquitted in gas overpricing case

    Expert testimony persuaded Judge Ercolini that there was no fraud

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) has been acquitted in the case of alleged overpricing in the purchase of Liquefied National Gas. Judge Julián Ercolini's ruling also reached her former aides Julio De Vido, Roberto Baratta, and other officials of her administration.

  • Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

    Buenos Aires: EuroLat due to vote on agreed topics

    CFK stressed that international law must be respected by all countries

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernàndez de Kirchner (CFK) welcomed to Buenos Aires' Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) the more than 100 lawmakers who participated in this year's Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) sessions under the slogan “A fair, inclusive, and peaceful economic recovery.”

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

    “Argentina never created conditions for Falkland Islanders to become Argentine citizens”, lawmaker Milei

    Javier Milei, a libertarian politician, economics professor who is shaking the Argentine political establishment or “political cast”, as he calls both the ruling and opposition coalitions

    “Malvinas sovereignty negotiations are going to be very long. it's a complicated issue”, and although a territorial claim, “Argentina never created the conditions for Falkland Islanders to want to become Argentine citizens”, said Javier Milei, an Argentine member of the Lower House who was the sensation of last October's midterm election

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

    “It's going to be a long cold winter in Buenos Aires”

    The Vaca Muerta shale deposits in Patagonia, globally rich but mostly un exploited

    By Haley Zaremba, Oilprice.com – A fuel shortage is causing political turmoil and social unrest in Argentina, and could even result in a food shortage as the South American nation’s grain transporters call or a strike in the face of sky-high fuel prices during the harvest season for soy and corn.

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

    Latin America’s New Pink Tide? Or three brands of “Left” regimes

    After AMLO's victory in 2018, came Alberto Fernández in 2019, Bolivian President Luis Arce in 2020, and Peruvian President Pedro Castillo and Chilean President Gabriel Boric in 2021.

    By Jorge G. Castañeda (*) – Like the wave of leftist victories in the early 2000s following Hugo Chávez’s rise to power in Venezuela (1999-2013), the success of left-wing leaders across Latin America in recent years has been interpreted as a broader political paradigm shift. But these leaders’ substantive differences are more significant than their similarities.

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:28 UTC

    Argentina's Antarctic office looking for 2023 campaign scientists

    The call for applications is renewed every year, Ortúzar explained

    Argentina's National Antarctic Directorate (DNA) is looking for engineers and students of computer and electronic engineering to fill a dozen technical positions during the winter at the permanent bases Orcadas, Belgrano II, San Martín, Marambio, and Carlini in 2023.

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:13 UTC

    The majestic Norwegian tall ship marked the end of Ushuaia's cruise season

    With the departure on Monday of the Norwegian flagged three-mast tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina, considered the “successful” 2021/22 cruise season over. According to local port authorities from the province of Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia received more than 200 calls and some 60,000 visitors, since the arrival last 7 November of NatGeo Endurance, and was the only Latin American port that did not interrupt its summer activities.

  • Tuesday, April 12th 2022 - 23:32 UTC

    Argentine scientists plant sapling of Newton's tree to celebrate Researcher's Day

    April 10 was Doctor Bernardo Houssay's birthdate

    A sapling of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree has been planted in Argentina's Science Park as part of the festivities marking the April 10 Researcher's Day held by the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), The National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), the Ministry of Science, and the Science Cultural Center.