Argentina

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  OECD to evaluate Argentina, Brazil and Peru as potential members

  

  The Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has decided to discuss the admission into the group of Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 20:53 UTC

  Argentine President adds Barbados to his global tour next month

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández's upcoming tour has found a way to add some mileage after a stop in Barbados has been arranged to meet with Prime Minister Mia Mottley, it was announced Tuesday. Fernández's trip starts on Feb. with a visit to visit China and also to Russia.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Shrimp migrations in Argentine Sea to be monitored

  

  The Mar del Plata-based National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (Inidep), began the campaign aimed at establishing the migrations of shrimp (Pleoticus muelleri) in the Argentine Sea.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Ambassador says Jones-Huala may serve out his sentence in Argentina

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Chile Rafael Bielsa Monday said the newly-paroled Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala “could serve the rest of his sentence in Argentina.”

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Ambassadors gather at Buenos Aires' Holocaust Museum to remembers victims

  

  Ambassadors from 14 countries in Buenos Aires paid a tribute to the victims of Shoah, the Jewish Holocaust at the hands of the Third Reich in the 1930s and 1940s during a ceremony at the Museum in Buenos Aires Monday remembered the Holocaust

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  New US Ambassador presents his credentials to Argentine President

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday received the credentials from the new Ambassador of the United States to Buenos Aires.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 20:37 UTC

  Chile's Gov't appeals parole granted to Mapuche leader Jones-Huala

  

  Chilean authorities have fined an appeal against the court ruling which granted parole to Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala citing that “the convicted person does not meet the legal and regulatory requirements” to be eligible for the benefit, according to the brief from the Ministry of the Interior.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 20:33 UTC

  Trucks blocking trans-Andean traffic now add up to 3,000

  

  The conflict involving lorries trying to cross from Argentina into Chile through the Cristo Redentor-Libertadores pass has now escalated to the point of involving some 3,000 trucks stranded in the middle of the Andes, allegedly due to ultra meticulous sanitary requirements on the Chilean part.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:07 UTC

  Air Europa announces flights between Córdoba and Madrid via Asunción

  

  Just the week Aerolíneas Argentinas announced the return of seven weekly flights between Buenos Aires' Ezeiza and Madrid's Barajas, Spanish carrier Air Europa said it was coming back to the Argentine city of Córdoba, a service which had to be lifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  Argentine Defense Minister bids farewell to blue helmets off to Cyprus

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana last week bid farewell to the national troops to be deployed in Cyprus as a part of the United Nations peacekeeping Mission.