Argentina

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.
Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:54 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas: Red Cross presents final report after six Argentine soldiers are identified

The International Committee of the Red Cross presented on Monday, in Geneva, its final report on forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.
Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:54 UTC
Uruguay calls Nicaraguan elections “illegitimate” – Argentina does not want to interfere

Uruguay's Foreign Ministry Monday said the electoral process in Nicaragua which led to a new five-year term for the incumbent President Daniel Ortega and his Vice President wife Rosario Murillo lacked “legitimacy.”
Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 08:44 UTC
Antarctica cruise season 2021/22 launched in Ushuaia with National Geographic vessels

Argentine Minister of Tourism Matias Lammens and Tierra del Fuego governor Gustavo Melella officially opened the 2021/22 cruise season this Monday, in Ushuaia, with the arrival of “National Geographic Endurance”, which tomorrow leaves for Antarctica.
Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 08:03 UTC
Argentine pharmaceuticals agree to freeze meds prices

The Government of Argentina and the local pharmaceutical companies have agreed to freeze the price of medications until Jan. 7, 2022, the Health Ministry and the Domestic Trade Secretariat announced Monday.
Monday, November 8th 2021 - 19:54 UTC
Health care professionals in charge of Maradona booked for murder

All seven health care professionals who were treating Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona when he underwent surgery and eventually died have been charged with malpractice and other crimes by a San Isidro (Greater Buenos Aires) court Monday.
Monday, November 8th 2021 - 14:00 UTC
Argentine health ministers support national gov't's decision to vaccinate children

Health Ministers of jurisdictions other than the federal government have lined up together behind their national colleague Carla Vizzotti after the latter was accused of lying when she recommended vaccinating children aged 3 to 11 with Sinopharm.
Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:23 UTC
Lower export taxes on hake, squid and shrimp, as long as they are processed in Argentina

The Argentine government has issued Decree 754/2021 which lowers fisheries export taxes, particularly referred to hake, shrimp and squid as long as they are processed in the country including added value, to the benefit of Argentine industry and labor.