Argentina

• Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 22:37 UTC

  Maradona buried without his heart, TV anchorman says

  

  Argentine neurologist and TV host Nelson Castro has said former football legend Diego Armando Maradona has been buried but his heart was not in his coffin.

• Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  Fears of devaluation loom over Argentina as Central Bank reserves run almost dry

  

  Argentine Economy Minister desperately needs to reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week, because the Central Bank (BCRA) has only US $ 800 million left in cash with which to intervene in the local exchange market, which is pressing for a devaluation.

• Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 09:31 UTC

  Malvinas Islands' crest in all Tierra del Fuego sportswear and school uniforms

  

  In anticipation of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War, in 2022, the Argentine Tierra del Fuego province legislative passed several bills making it mandatory that all teams' sportswear in all the different competitions representing the province must have the Malvinas Islands crest, “and hopefully this initiative will also be implemented by other provinces”.

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina's National Sovereignty Day: “We won't trade the islands for vaccines,” President says

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday insisted the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands belonged to his country, which would never trade them “neither for vaccines nor for debts.”

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Millions of Argentines do not show up for their second doses of Covid-19 vaccines

  

  Argentine Health authorities Friday expressed a growing concern after over 8 million people who received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine failed to show up at their scheduled appointments to complete the immunization cycle, it was reported.

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego soul searching: 25 November, “Day of Selk-nam indigenous people genocide”

  

  The Tierra del Fuego provincial legislative has done some soul searching and has voted unanimously to declare next November 25, “Day of the Selk'nam people genocide.” It will be a day of provincial mourning with flags at half-mast and a non-working day in the extreme south province of Argentina.

• Friday, November 19th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina's ruling party retains Lower House majority

  

  Argentina's ruling coalition Everybody's Front (Frente de Todos - FdT) finally retained a majority within the Lower House after vote-counting in the province of La Rioja granted it the two seats still in doubt.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 21:21 UTC

  Ponant cruises operating Antarctic expeditions from Ushuaia

  

  French cruise company Ponant, specializing in Antarctic expeditions has two of its vessels in the port of Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina. L'Austral and Le Boreal twin vessels are 142 meters long with a capacity of 246 passengers and 140 crew.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 15:46 UTC

  Argentine art collector pays US$ 35 million for an emblematic feminist icon painting

  

  Argentine businessman and art collector Eduardo Constantini paid 35 million dollars for an iconic painting of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo at Sotheby's in United States. The record-breaking sum for a Kahlo masterpiece is a self-portrait, “Diego and me”, was painted in 1949 and was dedicated “to Florence and Sam with love from Frida”.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Argentine President diagnosed with brain disorder by Deputy-elect

  

  Neurologist Facundo Manes, who has just been voted into Argentina's Lower House on behalf of the opposition Together for a Change (JxC - Juntos por el Cambio) coalition, has said President Alberto Fernández had a cognitive deficiency known as “anosognosia.”