Argentina

• Monday, November 15th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentina’s ruling party loses Congress majority

  

  Preliminary but seemingly conclusive results from Argentina's mid-term elections Sunday showed the ruling party of President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner would be losing its majority in Congress after 38 years.

• Saturday, November 13th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

  Mercosur agrees on a negotiating group to deal with climate change

  

  Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay Friday have announced in Glasgow that they had agreed on the need to create a negotiating group to tackle climate change.

• Saturday, November 13th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Cruise season starts in Buenos Aires with arrival of first ship

  

  Buenos Aires' cruise season has kicked off with the arrival at the Argentine capital's river port of the US-flagged World Navigator carrying some 100 passengers from Europe, the United States and Canada.

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 19:01 UTC

  Former Argentine Army officer arrested for a crime dating back to 1976

  

  Former Argentine Army officer Carlos Cialceta, prosecuted for a crime against humanity committed in 1976, has been captured in the city of Salta during a Gendarmería Nacional (Border Guard) raid. The fugitive was hiding in a closet.

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 11:04 UTC

  Opposition candidates in Argentina have 2023 elections in sight

  

  The opposition Together for a Change (JxC) coalition candidates have summed up their proposals for Sunday's mid-term elections with the 2023 presidential contest insight.

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

  The Government has heard the voice of the people, Argentine President says

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday assured his Government had listened to the demands of the people after the Mandatory, Simultaneous and Open Primary (PASO) elections in September and taken the necessary steps to deserve the popular support Sunday.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 18:44 UTC

  Presidents of Russia, Argentina discuss COVID-19 on the phone

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the fight against COVID-19 among other bilateral issues, it was reported.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 14:49 UTC

  Argentina donates UK-developed COVID-19 vaccines

  

  The Government of Argentina is donating almost a million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to five presidential decrees published in the Official Gazette.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Unofficial US dollar crosses 200-peso threshold in Argentina

  

  As next Sunday's mid-term elections loom over and the government of President Alberto Fernández seems headed for inevitable defeat, desperate Argentinians turned to the currency black market to convert their volatile pesos into US dollars, thus piercing the psychological AR $ 200 threshold for the first time.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  Opposition lawmaker wants Argentine teenagers accountable for their crimes

  

  Following the assassination of a candy store vendor over the weekend in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, rage got hold of most Argentines as the alleged perpetrators of the robbery gone bad were captured a few minutes after the attack.