Argentina

Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:22 UTC
Argentine seminar of South Atlantic fishery challenges and the “Malvinas Question”

The legal and political challenges in the South Atlantic fishery, particularly those related to the fishing activities neighboring Argentina's EEZ, and implications of the Falklands/Malvinas Question were the central discussion of a seminar held at the Argentine foreign ministry.
Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 10:18 UTC
Argentine authorities highlight actions taken against human trafficking

Argentine Ministers Santiago Cafiero (Foreign Affairs) and Martín Soria (Justice and Human Rights) Friday highlighted the implementation of the Fund for Direct Assistance to Victims of Trafficking, during a series of roundtables at the San Martín Palace marking World Day against People Trafficking.
Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 10:09 UTC
IDB changes mind, and is again prepared to extend development loans to Argentina

Only last Monday Mauricio Claver-Carone, president of the Inter American Development Bank, IDB, published a letter in the Wall Street Journal blasting “Argentina's tumultuous financial record”, adding that IDB ”cannot rubber-stamp loan requests, without prudently ensuring it has a development impact.”
Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 09:06 UTC
Despite the political upheaval, Argentine farmers are expecting plentiful corn and wheat crops

Despite the political upheaval in Argentina, which seems to have temporarily quietened, whether preparing for an even worse storm, or heading for a reasonable path of rationality yet to be seen, the country one of the world's most efficient breadbasket, is again managing extraordinary crops of corn and wheat.
Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 08:10 UTC
No call, just a message from Argentine President to IMF Chief

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez sent International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva a message explaining the cabinet reshuffle currently underway.
Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 07:42 UTC
Prosecutor wants Emtrasur plane and crew to stay pending lab reports

Argentine prosecutors handling the case of the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 seized at the Ezeiza international airport Friday objected to the aircraft's crew being allowed to leave the country.
Friday, July 29th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Who's who in Argentina after Thursday's cabinet reshuffle

After Thursday's announcement of a large-scale cabinet reshuffle at Casa Rosada, the administration of President Alberto Fernández also announced the new destinations of the departing officials.
Friday, July 29th 2022 - 09:40 UTC
Argentine health authorities devise strategies against monkeypox

Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti convened a meeting with “experts” to generate “strategies to strengthen epidemiological surveillance, work together with the jurisdictions to decentralize diagnosis, train health teams and generate information actions for society.”
Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 21:43 UTC
It is official: Massa to head Argentina's new superministry

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday decided to finally launch a cabinet reshuffle which basically consists of blending the ministries of Economy, Productive Development and Agriculture, and Livestock and Fisheries into one office (known as “superministry”) to be headed by Lower House Speaker Sergio Massa.
Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 20:28 UTC
Argentina: Strategic Secretary resigns from Fernández's administration

Gustavo Béliz Thursday turned in his resignation as Secretary of Strategic Affairs to President Alberto Fernández amid a political crisis at Casa Rosada, where an imminent cabinet reshuffle has already started, including the appointment of Lower House Speaker Sergio Massa as Economy Minister despite him denying the possibility Wednesday.