Argentina

• Wednesday, January 19th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine FM holds meetings in DC as planned

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero was told Tuesday in Washington DC by his colleague, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, that the United States “strongly supported negotiations with the IMF.”

• Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 20:30 UTC

  South American countries might form “lithium OPEC”

  

  Developers in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and possibly Peru are evaluating the idea of creating an association of lithium-producing countries that will function like the mineral's OPEN for the region.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine FM in Washington DC seeking support for new IMF deal

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero is on a diplomatic mission to Washington DC where he is to hold meetings with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a move aimed at gathering some support ahead of new negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

• Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  World Economic Forum warns of dark future ahead for Argentina

  

  The World Economic Forum (WEF) has said Argentina's future was anything but promising as a result of the lethal combination of inflation and the state's financial collapse.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Argentine jiggers authorized to operate between parallels 44 and 48 South

  

  Since Saturday, January 15, zero hours, Argentine jiggers have been allowed to operate between parallel 44 and parallel 48 South, following the lack and/or minimum catches at the original specified area of parallels 49 to 52 S.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Low cost airline has started three weekly flights Buenos Aires/Ushuaia

  

  Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego is celebrating the arrival of a new airline which will have three weekly schedules, but equally significant is the fact it is low-cost Flybondi which opens greater options for residents and tourists planning to travel to the extreme south of Argentina, and the main cruise hub to Antarctica.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 20:20 UTC

  EU removes Argentina, Canada and Australia from “safe countries” list

  

  The European Union Monday removed Argentina, Canada, and Australia from its list of COVID-19 safe countries from where people could travel without sanitary restrictions.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Annual inflation in Patagonia reached 51,6% in 2021, despite many government regulated prices

  

  The Consumers Price Index in Argentine Patagonia, mainly Tierra del Fuego, was 3,1% in December accumulating 51,6% in the twelve months of 2021, in the range of the overall Argentine inflation last year, 50,9%.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Buenos Aires road safety boss dies in highway car crash

  

  Oscar Astoreca, director of Road Safety in the Argentine Province of Buenos Aires, died in a car crash last Saturday down National Route 2 (highway between Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata) near the town of Lezama, some 163 kilometers south of the country's capital.

• Saturday, January 15th 2022 - 13:51 UTC

  Argentine boat owners trapped in Punta del Este

  

  Dozens of Argentine-flagged private boats have been left stranded after mooring at the Uruguayan most exclusive port of Punta del Este because there is no COVID-19 corridor for their voyage back home, it was reported.