Argentina

• Friday, November 19th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina's ruling party retains Lower House majority

  

  Argentina's ruling coalition Everybody's Front (Frente de Todos - FdT) finally retained a majority within the Lower House after vote-counting in the province of La Rioja granted it the two seats still in doubt.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 21:21 UTC

  Ponant cruises operating Antarctic expeditions from Ushuaia

  

  French cruise company Ponant, specializing in Antarctic expeditions has two of its vessels in the port of Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina. L'Austral and Le Boreal twin vessels are 142 meters long with a capacity of 246 passengers and 140 crew.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 15:46 UTC

  Argentine art collector pays US$ 35 million for an emblematic feminist icon painting

  

  Argentine businessman and art collector Eduardo Constantini paid 35 million dollars for an iconic painting of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo at Sotheby's in United States. The record-breaking sum for a Kahlo masterpiece is a self-portrait, “Diego and me”, was painted in 1949 and was dedicated “to Florence and Sam with love from Frida”.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Argentine President diagnosed with brain disorder by Deputy-elect

  

  Neurologist Facundo Manes, who has just been voted into Argentina's Lower House on behalf of the opposition Together for a Change (JxC - Juntos por el Cambio) coalition, has said President Alberto Fernández had a cognitive deficiency known as “anosognosia.”

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 20:40 UTC

  Argentina: “Not penguins, dogs” covered in oil on Comodoro Rivadavia beach go viral

  

  Dogs covered in oil have appeared on the Comodoro Rivadavia beach in the Argentine province of Chubut, it was reported. Local residents insist poorly sealed oil wells are the reason for the environmental tragedy but say the problem is not new.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 19:06 UTC

  All Argentines will get a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine, health minister says

  

  Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Wednesday announced the country's “entire population will receive the booster dose” of the COVID-19 vaccine.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentine sixth-graders supplied educational material reading “East and West Falkland” in English

  

  Education authorities in the Argentine Province of Santa Fe were placed under investigation Tuesday after it was found that a booklet distributed among sixth-grade schoolchildren featured a map where the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands were depicted as British territory despite the country's claim otherwise.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

  Aeroflot to serve Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro

  

  Russia's flag carrier Aeroflot has announced a series of new routes as COVID-19 travel restrictions are being lifted internationally.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 07:32 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina leading the combat against African Swine Fever in the continent

  

  Brazil and Argentina are leading the combat against African Swine Fever, ASF, in the continent. Last week Tereza Cristina, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, announced the allocation of US$ 500,000 to fight the disease in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, countries where a repeat of outbreaks have been reported.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2021 - 22:50 UTC

  Argentine surrealism: turning a major defeat into a victory celebration

  

  “On Wednesday, I'm inviting you to celebrate this great triumph by filling the Plaza de Mayo with militants,” Argentine president Alberto Fernandez announced calling the trade unions and the organizations of picketers in support of Sunday's midterm election “great win”. Likewise one of his most loquacious candidates Victoria Tolosa Paz argued, actually “losing we are winning, and those winning are losing”.