Argentina

• Saturday, June 28th 2025 - 10:39 UTC

  IMF team rounds up mission to Argentina

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded a four-day technical mission in Buenos Aires to review Argentina’s compliance with a new US$20 billion agreement signed in mid-April 2025, it was announced Friday in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, June 28th 2025 - 10:23 UTC

  Milei calls Kicillof a “eunuch donkey”

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei launched the electoral campaign for his party, La Libertad Avanza (LLA), in the province of Buenos Aires ahead of local elections on September 7, 2025. During a party congress in La Plata, Milei harshly criticized Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof, a Peronist, calling him “Stalin's chick” and a “eunuch donkey.”

• Saturday, June 28th 2025 - 09:36 UTC

  Brazil's ANAC imposes heavy sanction on Aerolíneas Argentinas

  

  Brazil's National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) imposed a provisional administrative measure against Aerolíneas Argentinas this week, banning the neighboring country's flag carrier from establishing new operating bases in Brazil and increasing flight frequencies at Brasília, Galeão, Salvador, Curitiba, and Florianópolis.

• Friday, June 27th 2025 - 19:34 UTC

  CFK claims Milei's model is on the brink of collapse

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) said in an audio recording from her house arrest played during the bank workers' La Bancaria union’s National Congress that President Javier Milei’s economic model was “unsustainable” and “on the verge of collapse.”

• Friday, June 27th 2025 - 10:57 UTC

  Argentina: In absentia trial of AMIA bombing suspects to proceed

  

  Buenos Aires Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas ordered a trial in absentia for ten Iranians suspected of being involved in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association's (AMIA) headquarters in the Argentine capital, killing 85 people and injuring over 150. The attack has been deemed a crime against humanity, falling under the Rome Statute.

• Friday, June 27th 2025 - 10:02 UTC

  Uruguayan La Libertad Avanza fails to overcome first hurdle

  

  The Uruguayan version of Argentine President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) failed to secure the 1,350 valid signatures required by Uruguay's Electoral Court to register as a political party, particularly after many signatures were ruled unacceptable. The group, led by Nicolás Quintana, has 20 days to gather additional signatures.

• Friday, June 27th 2025 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentine music legend Lalo Schifrin dies aged 93

  

  Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin, who authored the iconic Mission: Impossible theme and other film and TV scores, including Dirty Harry, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, Voyage of the Damned, The Amityville Horror, The Sting II, and Mannix, died Thursday from pneumonia complications in Los Angeles, aged 93.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2025 - 19:54 UTC

  Argentina: Milei to suppress Civil Servants' Day off

  

  The Argentine Government of President Javier Milei will be suppressing the June 27 Civil Servant Day off for the people of the sector, Spokesman Manuel Adorni announced Wednesday.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2025 - 09:24 UTC

  Argentina begins evacuating nationals stranded in Israel

  

  The Argentine government launched a repatriation operation to evacuate around 450 nationals of the South American country stranded in Israel amid the conflict with Iran, which has nevertheless been reported to have ended, at least for now.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2025 - 09:07 UTC

  Contaminated fentanyl kills 48 so far in Argentina

  

  This week's issue of Argentina's National Epidemiological Bulletin reported 48 deaths from contaminated fentanyl across 11 of 19 affected healthcare facilities. The contaminated batches, linked to Pharma Group SA and Ramallo SA laboratories, caused fatal invasive infections due to Klebsiella pneumoniae and Ralstonia mannitolilytica bacteria.