Argentina

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 20:20 UTC

  EU removes Argentina, Canada and Australia from “safe countries” list

  

  The European Union Monday removed Argentina, Canada, and Australia from its list of COVID-19 safe countries from where people could travel without sanitary restrictions.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Annual inflation in Patagonia reached 51,6% in 2021, despite many government regulated prices

  

  The Consumers Price Index in Argentine Patagonia, mainly Tierra del Fuego, was 3,1% in December accumulating 51,6% in the twelve months of 2021, in the range of the overall Argentine inflation last year, 50,9%.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Buenos Aires road safety boss dies in highway car crash

  

  Oscar Astoreca, director of Road Safety in the Argentine Province of Buenos Aires, died in a car crash last Saturday down National Route 2 (highway between Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata) near the town of Lezama, some 163 kilometers south of the country's capital.

• Saturday, January 15th 2022 - 13:51 UTC

  Argentine boat owners trapped in Punta del Este

  

  Dozens of Argentine-flagged private boats have been left stranded after mooring at the Uruguayan most exclusive port of Punta del Este because there is no COVID-19 corridor for their voyage back home, it was reported.

• Friday, January 14th 2022 - 20:13 UTC

  Former Spanish PMs support dialogue between Argentina, UK over Falklands

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday thanked former Spanish Prime Ministers for their support to resuming dialogue with the United Kingdom over the Falklands / Malvinas issue.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 21:05 UTC

  Argentine Government decrees two days of teleworking for public employees

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández has decided that all civil servants go back to teleworking for two days -Jan. 13 and 14- as a result of the heat wave and the numeous problems with electricity supply.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 19:10 UTC

  Argentina: Milei's salary as a lawmaker goes to Kirchnerite construction worker

  

  Newly-elected Argentine Deputy Javier Milei hast kept his word and put out his salary on a raffle to prove he was not into politics for the money. The 40-year-old Federico Nacarado, who is far from being a Milei voter, entered the competition due to pressure from his spouse and will now be able to make some payments on his debts.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Meat consumption in Argentina fell despite cap on exports

  

  Argentina has recorded a 4.8% decline in meat consumption per inhabitant despite caps on exports imposed by the administration of President Alberto Fernández, which allegedly sought to prioritize the domestic market.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Fifty years since the air link between Falkland Islands and Comodoro Rivadavia

  

  Half a century ago, on 12 January 1972, a seaplane from the Argentine Air Force landed in Stanley harbor establishing the first regular flight between Comodoro Rivadavia and the Falkland Islands. From then onwards, ”sanitary, passenger and general cargo (mail, fresh food, and medicines) became regular flights”.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentina: Indigenous communities want to bury ancestors in Nordelta

  

  The bodies of 42 members of an indigenous community who were removed from their resting places by US archaeologist Samuel Lothrop in 1925 are to be restored to their historical land in what will be the largest restitution carried out so far in Argentina and which has been approved Monday by the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI).