Argentina

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 20:35 UTC

  Argentina endorses request that Venezuela investigates human rights violations

  

  Argentina Wednesday supported from its role within the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) previous requests filed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who insisted the Venezuelan administration of Nicolás Maduro needed to investigate the numerous reports on violations and hold the perpetrators accountable.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 14:28 UTC

  Uruguay and Chile, the least corrupt “in a corrupt continent”

  

  Corruption in Latin America is one of the most notorious problems on the region's agenda after a decade of major judicial operations that exposed corruption schemes involving governments and companies alike. According to Transparency International (TI), corruption has been entrenched in Latin America for more than a decade with little progress and many setbacks in terms of democracy and human rights.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  No more PCR tests for fully vaccinated Argentines to return

  

  Argentina's health authorities have decided to stop requiring a negative PCR test on national citizens and residents entering the country as of Jan. 29, it was announced Tuesday. Other lighter measures will also become effective that day.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  ECLAC needs to set aside four rogue countries to measure inflation for year 2021

  

  Inflation in Latin America for the year 2021 was way above projections, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has said in a report issued from its Santiago headquarters.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  OECD to evaluate Argentina, Brazil and Peru as potential members

  

  The Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has decided to discuss the admission into the group of Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 20:53 UTC

  Argentine President adds Barbados to his global tour next month

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández's upcoming tour has found a way to add some mileage after a stop in Barbados has been arranged to meet with Prime Minister Mia Mottley, it was announced Tuesday. Fernández's trip starts on Feb. with a visit to visit China and also to Russia.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Shrimp migrations in Argentine Sea to be monitored

  

  The Mar del Plata-based National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (Inidep), began the campaign aimed at establishing the migrations of shrimp (Pleoticus muelleri) in the Argentine Sea.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Ambassador says Jones-Huala may serve out his sentence in Argentina

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Chile Rafael Bielsa Monday said the newly-paroled Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala “could serve the rest of his sentence in Argentina.”

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Ambassadors gather at Buenos Aires' Holocaust Museum to remembers victims

  

  Ambassadors from 14 countries in Buenos Aires paid a tribute to the victims of Shoah, the Jewish Holocaust at the hands of the Third Reich in the 1930s and 1940s during a ceremony at the Museum in Buenos Aires Monday remembered the Holocaust

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  New US Ambassador presents his credentials to Argentine President

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday received the credentials from the new Ambassador of the United States to Buenos Aires.