Argentina

• Monday, August 30th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Governor reelected in Argentine province of Corrientes heralds further defeats for President Fernández's party

  

  Incumbent Governor Gustavo Valdés of the Radical Civil Union (UCR) was reelected Sunday for a new four-year term in office at the helm of the Argentine province of Corrientes.

• Monday, August 30th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Argentine Senate approves the Fishing Unit, as the new index value for illegal fishing fines

  

  The Argentine Senate unanimously approved the bill which reviews and establishes new values for fines and sanctions for illegal fishing activities in the country's EEZ.

• Saturday, August 28th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Genetic material of Argentine 1982 combatants lands in Córdoba for DNA testing

  

  Argentine forensic anthropologist Luis Fondebrider, at the service of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Thursday landed in Córdoba in a private flight from the Falkland Islands carrying genetic material to be used in determining the identity combatants buried in grave C.1.10 at Darwin's military cemetery.

• Saturday, August 28th 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  Denmark to lift Buenos Aires embassy which covers Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay

  

  The European Kingdom of Denmark Friday announced a reshaping of its foreign policies and a series of measures pertaining thereto which included lifting its embassy in Buenos Aires, which encompasses Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. The measure will be effective within a year.

• Saturday, August 28th 2021 - 08:59 UTC

  Argentine intercity bus drivers go on strike for the entire weekend

  

  Argentine intercity bus drivers have gone on a 72-hour nationwide strike from Friday through Monday to demand better wages and labour conditions as well as overdue salaries.

• Friday, August 27th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentine President indicted for skipping lockdown, pleas to buy his way out of trial

  

  A federal prosecutor indicted Argentine President Alberto Fernández for violating the sanitary restrictions he had himself decreed, after evidence surfaced of a large gathering at the Olivos Residence in July 2020 to celebrate the First Lady's birthday while the rest of the country was placed under quarantine.

• Friday, August 27th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Legislator from the Argentine province of Corrientes shot during a campaign speech

  

  Peronist provincial lawmaker Miguel Arias was shot at during the party's closing ceremony not far from the town of Paso de Los Libres as the province of Corrientes gets ready for this coming Sunday's elñections where the offices of Governor and Vice Governor will be at stake.

• Friday, August 27th 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  Argentina and Uruguay ladies love and celebrate the Falklands

  

  Ladies support for the Falkland Islands in the River Plate is expanding. As happened just a few weeks ago in Buenos Aires when two historians, one of them with an international reputation, acknowledged the Falklands belong to the Falkland Islanders and doubt Argentina's claim, in Uruguay a member from a ruling coalition junior party last 14 August twitted the hashtag “HappyFalklandsDay”.

• Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Uruguayan meat exports surpass Argentina's thanks to restrictions

  

  Restrictions on meat exports imposed on producers by the Argentine administration of President Alberto Fernández, in a failed attempt to curb domestic prices, have led the country to lose ground to Uruguayan and Paraguayan competitors, Infobae reported Wednesday.

• Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Another suspect in Buenos Aires bombing case appointed into Iran's government

  

  A former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who is said to have been at the meeting in which it was decided to attack the Jewish AMIA association in 1994 in Buenos Aires has been appointed Vice President of Economic Affairs by President Ebrahim Raisi, it was announced Wednesday.