Argentina

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 15:41 UTC

  Moody's warns Argentina's unwritten IMF deal does not avert default

  

  Credit rating consultants Moody's Friday issued a report according to which Argentina's ”long history of failure when implementing International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs” meant the risk of default had not been averted.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 14:03 UTC

  Ambassador Stanley holds talks with Argentine Cabinet Chief Manzur

  

  Following Argentine President Alberto Fernández's remarks to his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin in Moscow, according to which the South American country needed to be freer from the United States and the International Monetary Fund, Washington's envoy to Buenos Aires held a meeting Friday with Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 13:28 UTC

  Argentina closer to producing Sinopharm vaccine locally

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández and directors of the Chinese laboratory which produces the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine met Friday in Berlin in another stop of the head of state's tour.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 10:22 UTC

  Argentina expects more support from the EU on the “Malvinas issue” after Brexit

  

  Since the Falkland Islands ceased to be a European Union (EU) Community overseas territory after the Brexit, Argentina seeks more support from the bloc in the negotiation claim with the United Kingdom on the South Atlantic British territory. It was explained by the Argentine Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica, and South Atlantic, Guillermo Carmona in an interview with EFE.

• Friday, February 4th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Argentine navy rescues stranded Russian scientific vessel in Antarctica

  

  An Argentine Navy vessel from the Antarctic Combined Patrol shared with Chile, and currently on duty, helped to rescue the Russian scientific vessel “Professor Logachev”, which was stranded and with no self-propulsion at Lasserre Bay, next to the Polish Antarctic Station Arctowski in King George Island.

• Thursday, February 3rd 2022 - 23:00 UTC

  Argentina's dependency on US needs to stop, President Fernández tells Putin

  

  President Alberto Fernández Thursday told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow that “Argentina has to stop having such a great dependency on the IMF and the United States.”

• Thursday, February 3rd 2022 - 18:01 UTC

  20 dead, many others hospitalized due to tainted cocaine in Argentina

  

  Authorities in the Argentine town of Hurlingham, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Wednesday reported 20 people had died and 74 others had been hospitalized after consuming tainted cocaine.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 - 21:00 UTC

  Fuel goes up 9% in Argentina after long price freeze

  

  Argentina's state-run oil company YPF announced a price increase of around 9% in the price of fuel at pumps as of Wednesday, with 2 additional percentage points in the case of premium products.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 - 20:49 UTC

  IMF concerned over future of Argentine deal due to political turmoil

  

  Argentina's representative to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Sergio Chodos Wednesday said in a radio interview the multinational body was concerned after Deputy Máximo Kirchner's resignation as majority leader, which might jeopardize the Congressional approval of the preliminary understanding reached last week.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 - 11:44 UTC

  Recommended reading, updated Argentina Travel Advice by FCDO

  

  The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office has updated its Travel Advice on Argentina. Among other issues, the TA points out that 126,548 British nationals visited Argentina in 2019 and most visits are trouble-free.