Argentina

• Monday, November 25th 2024 - 10:24 UTC

  Venezuelan regime keeps targeting Argentine Embassy in Caracas

  

  Argentine authorities denounced during the weekend that the diplomatic mission in Caracas -now under Brazil's protection following the diplomatic breakup between the governments of Nicolás Maduro and Javier Miei- has been placed under siege, targetting the six aides of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado who sought asylum there earlier this year.

• Monday, November 25th 2024 - 09:48 UTC

  Former Argentine FMs condemns Milei's decision regarding Papal invitation

  

  Five former Argentine Foreign Ministers signed a declaration condemning their successor Gerardo Werthein's absence at Monday's ceremony with Pope Francis marking the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship which Chile, whose top diplomat Alberto van Klaveren will be attending the event.

• Monday, November 25th 2024 - 06:10 UTC

  “The Magellan Strait belongs to Chile“, underlines US Ambassador

  

  “The United States has been very clear that the Magellan Strait belongs to Chile, and I can assure you there is no intention of holding naval exercises with Argentina along the Magellan Strait,” US ambassador in Chile Bernadette Meehan said point blank during a visit to Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, following on rumors published in the neighboring country media.

• Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 19:27 UTC

  Eight former Argentine Army officers convicted for death of 2nd Lt in ritualistic party

  

  Former Argentine Army officers Rubén Darío Ruiz, Claudio Andrés Luna, Hugo Reclus Martínez Tárraga, Exequiel Emanuel Aguilar, Darío Emanuel Martínez, Luis Facundo Acosta were sentenced Thursday to 8 years in jail for the crime of abandonment of person in concurrence with abuse of authority in the death of Second Lieutenant Matías Ezequiel Chirino in a ritualistic initiation known as “baptism” at the Artillery Group 3 in Paso de los Libres in the province of Corrientes on June 19, 2022. Meanwhile, former privates Gerardo Sebastián Bautista, Franco Damián Grupico, and Claudia Daniela Cayata were acquitted.

• Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:53 UTC

  Milei regrets ICC's measure against Netanyahu

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday expressed his “profound disagreement” with the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In the Libertarian leader's view, the ruling “distorts the spirit of international justice.”

• Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:20 UTC

  Praise for Milei’s stabilization program: IDB approves 2 billion dollars in loans for Argentina

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Executive Board approved four operations, totaling over 2 billion US dollars to support Argentina's strategy to promote fiscal sustainability and lay the groundwork for sustainable and equitable growth. The loans will assist the country in key measures to strengthen public finances, energy sector sustainability, and child development. Additionally, the IDB will support the City of Buenos Aires in improving access to public health services.

• Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:13 UTC

  Argentine Air Force Chief sacked for improper conduct

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Luis Petri Thursday sacked Air Force Chief of Staff Brigadier Fernando Luis Mengo for allegedly using State resources for personal purposes. Mengo allegedly used Air Force aircraft to transport his partner between Paraná and Buenos Aires. In addition, he is facing complaints of sexual harassment.

• Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 09:20 UTC

  Pope Francis wants South Atlantic to remain a region of peace

  

  Pope Francis, the Argentine-born leader of the Catholic Church, urged Rio Grande Mayor Martín Pérez Wednesday in a private audience to defend with “much strength” the sovereignty of the South Atlantic and continue “working for peace” in that area, it was reported Thursday. The Pontiff highlighted the region's fundamental role in the “balance of the Common Home.”

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  The relationship between Milei and Villarruel is reduced to institutional matters

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei admitted implicitly in a TV interview Wednesday that no love is lost between him and Vice President Victoria Villarruel. The Libertarian leader acknowledged that the Senate's Speaker decided no longer to participate in cabinet meetings and claimed that she belonged to the so-called “red circle” of power, which we call “the caste.”

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:54 UTC

  “Stop making politics with Malvinas”, yelled a crowd against Tierra del Fuego officials

  

  “Stop making politics with Malvinas,” openly complained municipal staff from the city of Ushuaia, capital of Tierra del Fuego, who were obliged to attend a conference on the “Malvinas” issue, and allegedly had to stand for political comments from national Senator Maria Eugenia Dure.