Argentina

• Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Extension granted to companies searching for oil off Argentina's shores

  

  Argentina's Energy Secretariat extended until 2024 the oil offshore exploration permits of ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum (QP) to operate in the Argentine Sea, it was reported earlier this week in the Official Gazette.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Pesticides and heavy metals detected in Argentine river waters

  

  According to a report from the National Institute of Agropecuarian Technology (INTA) and the national universities of San Martín (Unsam) and of the Litoral (UNL), a high number of biocides was detected in the Salado River basin in the province of Santa Fe.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  Argentina to create yet another dollar exchange rate

  

  Argentina's Superminister of Economy, Industry, and Agriculture Sergio Massa Monday announced the creation of yet a new parity between the local currency and the US dollar to be applied to regional economies.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Argentine president turns to diplomacy

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández has withdrawn himself from domestic confrontations within the ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) by focusing on the international agenda that launches him onto the world's center stage in the coming days.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 08:39 UTC

  Mar del Plata fishermen go on two-day strike over wage bargaining

  

  Fishermen of Mar del Plata's deep-sea Monday launched a 48-hour strike in demand of wage increases of up to 100% to cope with Argentina's inflation and after negotiations with the Business Chambers Caabpa and Caipa yielded no results.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 20:14 UTC

  CFK too smart to run for President again, says Pepe Mujica

  

  Former Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica said Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) is too smart to run for the Casa Rosada next year, according to an interview published by Montevideo's El Observador.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  “Macri is the enemy,” Máximo Kirchner tells Peronist convention

  

  Argentine Deputy Máximo Kirchner said during a Justicialist Party (PJ) Convention in Mar del Plata that “the adversary of the Argentine society, and not only of Peronism, is former president [Mauricio] Macri.”

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  LGTB+ Groups celebrate 31st Pride Day in Buenos Aires

  

  LGBTI+ groups marching through the streets of Buenos Aires on Gay Pride Celebration Day Saturday demanded broader anti-discrimination laws be broader and other regulations benefitting transgender people.

• Saturday, November 5th 2022 - 11:06 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez reappears in public in electoral mode as crowds called her “President”

  

  For the first time since her assassination attempt on September 1, Argentina's Vice-President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), reappeared in public at an event that welcomed her with the chant “Cristina presidenta” (Cristina President). She replied that it was possible to repeat the bonanzas of her two consecutive four-year terms in office (2007-2015).

• Saturday, November 5th 2022 - 10:42 UTC

  Agreement between Argentina, U.S. on undeclared deposits ready to be signed

  

  Argentina's “Superminister” of Economy, Industry, and Agriculture Sergio Massa is counting on an agreement to be signed with the United States shortly to detect undeclared bank accounts abroad which would allow holders to evade taxes.