Argentina

Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 18:18 UTC
Argentine minister vows to halt speculative imports of unnecessary items

Argentina's Productive Development Minister Daniel Scioli has announced he would step in to curb speculative imports and stop those who take advantage of the existing dual exchange rate between the local peso and the US dollar.
Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 10:44 UTC
More poverty and misery ahead for most Argentines as food prices soar

An Argentine household needs a monthly income of at least 100,000 Pesos equivalent to US$ 781 at the official rate, (128 Pesos to the dollar) or US$ 454 (free market, 220 Pesos to the dollar) to remain just above the poverty line, according to the latest estimate from the government's Stats Office, Indec.
Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 09:31 UTC
Prosecutors launch terrorism probe on Emtrasur 747's captain

Argentine Prosecutors have decided to charge the Iranian captain of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 seized at the Ezeiza international airport in Buenos Aires, it was announced Tuesday.
Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 22:12 UTC
Argentine Army second lieutenant dies after officers' party

Argentine Army Second Lieutenant Matías Ezequiel Chirino has died in the province of Corrientes following a cardiac decompensation after an initiation party known as “baptism,” it was reported.
Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:50 UTC
“We have an enormous future,” Argentine President says

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday said “Argentina is not the country without destiny that some people say it is.” He made those remarks during a celebration marking the national Flag Day holiday (commemoration of Flag creator General Manuel Belgrano's death on June 20, 1820).
Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:50 UTC
Uruguay never jeopardized Emtrasur's 747, FM claims

Uruguay's Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo Monday stressed his country never put the Venezuelan-Iranian plane currently seized in Buenos Aires at risk.
Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:11 UTC
RAM strikes again in Argentine Patagonia

The Mapuche Armed Resistance (RAM) Group has claimed responsibility for Monday's burning of the Forestry offices in the Argentine province of Chubut, with pamphlets of the radicalized organization scattered all over the area.
Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Argentine Army Panhard AML90 refurbished in time for Falklands 40th anniversary

A French built armored reconnaissance vehicle which saw service during the 1982 Falklands conflict by the Argentine Army has been painstakingly refurbished in time for the Falklands 40th Anniversary.
Monday, June 20th 2022 - 10:54 UTC
Alberto Fernández accuses opposition of seeking political gain from 747 case

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Saturday argued the opposition had tried to make a political gain out of the Venezuelan-Iranian aircraft scandal by linking it “with such painful events as the AMIA bombing.”
Monday, June 20th 2022 - 09:30 UTC
A numerous Argentine multi-party delegation to UN C24, arrives Wednesday to New York

The Argentine government will be claiming this week before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, the resumption of negotiations with the United Kingdom for a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.