Argentina

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 21:26 UTC

  When Peron offered to buy the Falklands/Malvinas in a long term deal

  

  Some seven decades ago when the crowing of the princess to become Queen Elizabeth II, Argentine president General Juan Domingo Peron sent as his representative and envoy to the ceremony his vice president, Admiral Alberto Teisaire.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 10:58 UTC

  Alberto Fernández will be Venezuela's voice at Los Angeles Summit, Maduro says

  

  Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro said Argentina's President would represent all those countries excluded from the Summit of the Americas starting Monday in Los Angeles, California.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina: Scioli to take over as Productive Development Minister

  

  Former Argentine Vice President and current Ambassador to Brazil Daniel Scioli has been picked to replace Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas, after President Alberto Fernández acquiesced to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's advice to “use the pen.”

• Saturday, June 4th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Argentina: Alberto and Cristina make joint appearance again

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández and Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) spoke to each other once again Friday during the celebration of the state-run oil company YPF's 100th anniversary.

• Saturday, June 4th 2022 - 08:12 UTC

  Uruguay's inflation above target but exports hit new records

  

  Year-on-year inflation in Uruguay in the month of May of 2022 has been reported to still be nearly 35% above the target range set by the government of President Luis Lacalle Pou, while exports amounted to US$ 1.5 billion, which set a record high.

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Argentine Congressman Javier Milei favors trade of human organs

  

  Argentine Libertarian Congressman Javier Milei said he was in favor of the sale of human organs or transplants because “it is just another market.” After stirring controversies among authorities coordinating these operations, Milei insisted that under a free market, transplants “would work much, much better”.

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 21:33 UTC

  Argentina's Defense Minister welcomes new French-built OPV

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Thursday welcomed the French-built Ocean Patrol Vessel (OPV) ARA Contraalmirante Cordero, the last of the four ships purchased through the National Defense Fund (FonDef).

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  4th dose of covid-19 vax will be the last until next year, Buenos Aires Minister forecasts

  

  Buenos Aires City Health Minister Fernán Quirós said he believed it was “very likely” that the fourth dose of covid-19 vaccine would be the last this year and that the next immunization campaign will be ahead of the 2023 fall.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 22:00 UTC

  Falklands' War: Royal Marines cadre clear Top Malo House of Argentine special forces

  

  Forty years ago, British troops were advancing towards Port Stanley in the Falklands – most of them on foot. Standing in the way of the advance was Top Malo House, a property suspected of containing Argentine special forces that sat in a compromising high ground position.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 21:54 UTC

  Fuel relief to Argentine northern provinces on its way, Casa Rosada says

  

  Argentina's Presidential Spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti Thursday announced the supply of diesel to the northern provinces was “on the way to being solved” through “extra imports” of fuel.