Argentina

• Wednesday, December 1st 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  Puerto Madryn refuses to allow cruise vessel Hamburg to dock or let people ashore

  

  The mayor of Puerto Madryn, Patagonia province of Chubut, Gustavo Sastre has asked the local port authority to prevent the cruise vessel Hamburg from calling and docking at the harbor. Hamburg is continuing with its southern cruise, after having left Buenos Aires on Monday

• Wednesday, December 1st 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  New Covid-19 case detected aboard controversial Hamburg cruise ship

  

  Argentina's Health Ministry Tuesday ordered everyone on board the cruise ship Hamburg must remain under quarantine after a new case of COVID-19 has been detected.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 19:00 UTC

  Unauthorized works kill hundreds of penguins in Chubut

  

  A landowner in the town of Punta Tombo in the Argentine Province of Chubut is to be prosecuted under the Law of Cruelk Treatment Against Animals after crushing several penguin nests and electrocuting over a hundred of the birds living at the local natural wildlife reserve some 110 kilometres south from Rawson, the provincial capital.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentine Border Health authorities learn Cape Verde is not in Asia

  

  As incoming trips from Africa were banned almost worldwide in light of the appearance of the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2, Argentine authorities had no trouble allowing a cruise ship steaming from Cape Verde to moor in Buenos Aires.... because “it came from Asia.”

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Thursday, D day for cruise Ultramarine and its delayed departure from Ushuaia on an Antarctic expedition

  

  Expedition cruise Ultramarine must remain in total confinement at the port of Ushuaia until next Thursday, following nine positive PCR tests among the 173 strong crew. No person is allowed on board or to disembark although water and supplies have been guaranteed, as well as all the necessary health support

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Argentine 2022 diplomatic strategy: promoting “Malvinas Support Groups” world wide

  

  Argentina's Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands Affairs Secretary, Guillermo Carmona was recently in Peru to prop support for the campaign planned to reinstate the Falklands/Malvinas dispute top of the country's international agenda, in coincidence with the 40th anniversary of the 1982 conflict that followed Argentina's invasion of the Islands.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: City of Ushuaia has its logo for the 40th anniversary of the war

  

  The City of Ushuaia has a logo and crest that will represent all activities organized by the city during next year when the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Malvina's war feat. The institutional image of the anniversary was circulated among some 67,000 residents and neighbours of the city, and finally, some 2,600 voted on the three images that were presented as options.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 03:06 UTC

  Messi wins 7th Ballon d'Or of his career, thanks Argentina teammates

  

  Argentine football star Lionel Messi has won his seventh Ballon d'Or award Monday and offered it to his national squad teammates with whom he achieved his first major professional title at country level.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 01:49 UTC

  Argentine Air Force cadet found dead

  

  A student at Argentina's Air Force academy for non-commissioned officers in the Córdoba area has been found dead in what appears to be a case of suicide, it was reported.

• Monday, November 29th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine Health Pass coming up, mandatory vaccination not compulsory “for now”

  

  Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti has admitted a Health Pass was coming up effective Dec. 1 as new strains of the coronavirus were being detected in other continents. The new pass would be mandatory for higher risk activities, events involving large crowds and indoor gatherings for people aged 13 and over.