Argentina

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 20:23 UTC

  Argentine President welcomes Chilean colleague with whom he shares many views

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday welcomed his Chilean counterpart Gabriel Boric Font at the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires. It was the visiting head of state's first trip abroad since taking office on March 11.

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Chilean President lands in Buenos Aires

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font landed Sunday afternoon at BuenosAires' Ezeiza international airport for a two-day official visit which marks his first trip abroad as head of state.

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands' people have rights, but Argentina's 'cruel' attitude creates the feeling “war has not gone”

  

  Hugo Alconada Mon is a prestigious Argentine journalist, and lawyer, who has written several books, besides belonging to the international consortium of investigative journalists which among other things was involved in exposing the Panama Papers.

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Chilean minister apologizes for pro-Mapuche remarks

  

  Chile's Interior Minister Izkia Siches has conveyed her apologies to the Government of Argentina for statements that appeared to endorse the Mapuche claim to the “Wallmapu,” the indigenous ancestral lands which would challenge sovereignty over a large part of Patagonia.

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Argentina back to pre-pandemic migration requirements

  

  The Government of Argentina has decreed a return to the prepandemic status regarding border controls. Travelers will have now the same requirements as before March 2020, Interior Minister Wado de Pedro and Migrations Director Florencia Carignano announced.

• Sunday, April 3rd 2022 - 11:58 UTC

  Argentine President praises fortitude of 1982 war veterans

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Saturday delivered the main speech during the ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the Puerto Argentino / Port Stanley landing which triggered the South Atlantic armed conflict with the United Kingdom.

• Sunday, April 3rd 2022 - 11:41 UTC

  Malvinas meant the end of the “military party” - Argentine VP stresses

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and Lower House Speaker Sergio Massa presided over Congress' ceremony Saturday marking the 40th anniversary of the Falklands / Malvinas war.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  “The saddest page of history between Argentina and Britain”, Ambassador Hayes

  

  Kirsty Hayes, current British ambassador in Argentina wrote a column, published in Buenos Aires main daily, La Nacion pointing out that April 2nd was the beginning of the saddest page of the wide history of relations between Argentines and British. A painful date that brings sad memories to many families and sensitizes us all who some way or another work to build bridges between our nations, Ambassador Hayes begins her column.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina focused on ties with US

  

  Argentina's Economy Minister Martín Guzmán met Friday with US Ambassador Marc Stanley at the Treasury Palace in Buenos Aires to discuss the bilateral agenda regarding cooperation between the two countries.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Bolivia and Argentina postpone decision on gas supply contract

  

  Bolivia's Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) and Integración Energética Argentina Sociedad Anónima (IEASA) agreed to postpone the decision on a sixth addendum to the contract for the supply of natural gas for yet another month, according to a YPFB statement relesed Friday. Negotiations had been previously extended for two months, which ended on March 31.