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Montevideo, September 8th 2026 - 14:59 UTC

Argentina

  • Thursday, August 27th 2026 - 08:09 UTC

    Argentine lawmakers travel to Brasília to repair relations with Brazil

    Among the Argentine interests he considers to be at stake, Massot cited the functioning of Mercosur and Brazil's backing for Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falklands.

    A delegation of Argentine deputies and senators from opposition parties will travel to Brasília next Wednesday with the aim of repairing bilateral relations, strained since President Javier Milei referred to his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in offensive terms. The group is due to meet the Brazilian Senate's foreign relations committee, the foreign ministry and representatives of the presidency.

  • Tuesday, August 25th 2026 - 21:39 UTC

    Argentine trips abroad fall 21.2% as Brazil and Uruguay lead arrivals

    Among tourists arriving in Argentina, 36.1% came from Brazil and 16% from Uruguay

    The number of Argentine residents leaving the country in July fell 21.2% year on year, to 1.22 million people, according to the international tourism statistics report released on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. In the opposite direction, 830,200 foreign visitors entered the country, 17.9% more than a year earlier.

  • Tuesday, August 25th 2026 - 21:28 UTC

    Argentina acknowledges the Magellan treaties and seeks to defuse friction with Chile

    The 1881 treaty recognised Chilean sovereignty over the strait and established its perpetual neutralisation, with free navigation for vessels of all nations

    Argentina's foreign ministry issued a statement on Tuesday reaffirming that its position on the Strait of Magellan is the one established by the 1881 Boundary Treaty and the 1984 Treaty of Peace and Friendship, a day after Chile announced it would send a note of protest over remarks by the head of the Argentine Air Force General Staff.

  • Tuesday, August 25th 2026 - 06:04 UTC

    Chile protests to Argentina over a military chief's remarks on the Strait of Magellan

    He did not specify which country he was attributing that sovereignty to, but Chilean authorities and media interpreted his words as an Argentine claim over the southern passage

    Chile's foreign ministry announced on Monday it will send a note of protest to the Argentine government over remarks by the head of the Argentine Air Force General Staff, Brigadier General Gustavo Javier Valverde, in which he mentioned the Strait of Magellan while referring to sovereignty matters.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:44 UTC

    Man detained in Buenos Aires after driving a stolen bus, saying it was his dream

    The situation came to light when the bus scraped another vehicle belonging to the same company

    A man was detained on Sunday in the western part of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area after driving a city bus for several kilometres, having taken it without authorisation from a depot, following the line's regular route and picking up passengers at stops.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:26 UTC

    Milei links Lula to the case of the Argentine former adviser detained in Bolivia

    The remarks come during the worst diplomatic crisis between the two countries since the return to democracy

    Argentine President Javier Milei has attributed the criminal case against his former adviser Fernando Cerimedo, detained in Bolivia over an attempted femicide, to a regional plot in which he included Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former Bolivian president Evo Morales and Argentine lawmaker Marcela Pagano. He offered no evidence to support the claim.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 07:44 UTC

    Unemployment displaces inflation as Argentines' main concern

    Fear of job loss extends into households: 64% said they were concerned a member of their family could lose their job in the coming months

    Unemployment has become the leading problem Argentines want the government to solve, well ahead of inflation, according to the economic expectations report by the polling firm Opina Argentina released over the weekend. Thirty-six percent of respondents placed it first, followed by corruption on 32%, while inflation fell to 11% and insecurity to 9%.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 06:53 UTC

    Two newly detained men testify in the case over the shooting of the Bolivian lawyer

    Beller was shot three times on August 10 outside a hotel in Santa Cruz and spent five days in hospital

    Two men held as part of the investigation into the shooting of Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller gave statements to prosecutors in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on Sunday. One is accused of supplying the weapon used in the ambush; the other, a Colombian national identified as a possible gunman, turned himself in after learning he was being sought.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 06:22 UTC

    Argentina retires the jets that sank two British ships in the 1982 war

    The retirement forms part of the Plan Dédalo, a five-year restructuring of Naval Aviation drawn up from a study begun in 2025 and approved by the Navy's General Staff

    Argentina's Navy has announced the definitive retirement of its Super Étendard strike aircraft, the French-built jets that attacked the British fleet with Exocet missiles during the 1982 Falklands war. The announcement was made on August 20 by the commander of Naval Aviation, Rear Admiral Román Enrique Olivero, at a ceremony at Punta Indio Naval Air Base. The withdrawal will take place this year, on a date yet to be set.

  • Sunday, August 23rd 2026 - 22:41 UTC

    Argentina votes this week on the reform barring the central bank from funding the Treasury

    The bill also prohibits the purchase of national, provincial or municipal government bonds on the primary market, the mechanism through which the central bank has historically financed the Treasury

    Argentina's Chamber of Deputies will on Wednesday debate the reform of the central bank's charter promoted by Javier Milei's government, which bars the monetary authority from financing the fiscal deficit through money creation and restores preservation of the value of the currency as its sole objective.