Argentina

• Friday, March 25th 2022 - 16:09 UTC

  IMF Board unanimously approves Argentina deal

  

  The International Monetary Fund's board of directors Friday approved unanimously the latest US$ 45-billion program signed with Argentina, with which the South American country has avoided default.

• Friday, March 25th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentine President says March 24 brings Argentines together

  

  President Alberto Fernández Thursday stressed March 24 was the day when Argentines were stronger together. Hos words came during a ceremony marking a new anniversary of the 1976 coup d'etat aganst Constitutional President María Estela Martínez de Perón.

• Friday, March 25th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  CFK and her son praise Memory Day rally demonstrators

  

  Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Thursday sent a message through social media to the groups who marched onto Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo during the Memory Day commemorations of those fallen under the military dictatorship which came to power March 24, 1976.

• Thursday, March 24th 2022 - 22:40 UTC

  Thousands of Argentines march 46 years after coup d'état

  

  Tens of thousands of Argentines marched again to Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo (Mayo Square) on Thursday, 46 years after the coup d'état that installed a dictatorship responsible for tens of thousands of disappearances, exiles and executions in clandestine centers.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  President Fernández, Georgieva hold talk ahead of IMF's board vote

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Tuesday held a virtual meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, during which he ratified his Government's commitment to the new program agreed upon.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Rio Grande prepares for the Malvinas Vigil and a remake of the Falklands landing 2 April

  

  The municipality of the Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego province, together with the local branch of the Malvinas Veterans have organized an agenda of activities, with an open invitation to all residents from the province and former combatants from the 1982 Falklands war.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentina to recruit additional voluntary soldiers to boost armed forces

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana has announced 10,000 new volunteer soldiers are o be recruited to boost the manning of military barracks. The country's armed forces currently have some 17,000 troops nationwide, it was reported.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Ushuaia creates a Malvinas Islands Secretariat, names a Veteran as head

  

  The municipal government of Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina and capital of the province of Tierra del Fuego has created a Malvinas Islands Secretariat, as part of the commemorations of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands' war.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentine President welcomes SK firm's brass ahead of lithium project start

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday welcomed a group of executives from South Korean company POSCO (Pohang Iron and Steel Company) who are in the country to build a commercial lithium plant in the province of Salta. POSCO is the world's sixth-largest steel producer.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  Brazil planning to become a net exporter of wheat, harvesting a volume similar to that of Argentina

  

  Brazil is working to reduce its dependence on foreign produce and hopes to take advantage of recent record exports to increase crops this year. In effect from December 2021 to March 2022, Brazil exported some 2.5 million tons of wheat, an unprecedented volume that benefited from a historically large harvest and, more recently, from additional demand generated by the war between wheat exporters Ukraine and Russia.