Argentina

Tuesday, April 13th 2021 - 14:32 UTC
Argentina finished Antarctica Summer Campaign without Covid-19 cases

Argentina's 2020/2021 Antarctic campaign successfully finished last week after the arrival of the Argentine Navy icebreaker “Almirante Irízar” at the port of Buenos Aires without registering any positive case of Covid-19 among its 392 crew members, military and scientists.
Tuesday, April 13th 2021 - 09:54 UTC
Argentina: Experts advise further restrictions necessary to curb coronavirus spread

Argentine Chief of Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero and Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Monday met online with a committee of experts to assess the country's current covid situation. The recommendation was, as expected, harsher restrictions.
Monday, April 12th 2021 - 10:20 UTC
Argentine Government to discuss further restrictions as coronavirus cases soar

Argentina's Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero and Health Minister Carla Vizzotti are to hold a meeting Monday to discuss additional measures as the spread of the coronavirus pandemic seems increasingly out of control.
Monday, April 12th 2021 - 09:55 UTC
Argentine Journalist Mauro Viale dies of covid-19 aged 73

Famous Argentine TV-radio host and former sportscaster Mauro Viale has died in Buenos Aires at the age of 73 due to covid-19 complications, it was reported. He had received the first dose of the vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus last week.
Saturday, April 10th 2021 - 10:53 UTC
Argentine inflation forecast at 46% for year 2021, 3.9% for March alone

Argentina's Central Bank Friday announced the yearly inflation for 2021 was expected to reach 46%, while figures for the past month of March were around 3.9%. The official peso/US dollar exchange rate was foreseen at $ 115/ US$ 1 by the end of this year.
Saturday, April 10th 2021 - 10:03 UTC
Prince Philip's death in times of virtual life and social media

The death of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and the growing popularity of social media and online contact, has led to a scenario completely different from the one seen at the last royal funeral, King George VI's in 1952.
Saturday, April 10th 2021 - 08:30 UTC
Argentina strongly opposes UK's firing of missiles in the Falklands

Argentina Friday expressed its government's utmost rejection of the announcement by British authorities that missiles were to be launched at the Falkland Islands. The Foreign Ministry warned that the “alleged defensive condition of the British military base in the South Atlantic is not only totally unjustified, but also represents a threat to the entire region.”
Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:56 UTC
Argentine Senate passes Income Tax reform with all votes but one

Argentina's Upper House Thursday passed by 66 votes in favour and one abstention the tax reforms proposed by the government of President Alberto Fernández, which would rid workers with a monthly gross income of 150,000 pesos (around 1,100 US dollars at the unofficial exchange rate) of paying the income tax.
Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:55 UTC
Argentine officers accused for torturing own troops during 1982 war

The Federal Court of Appeals of Comodoro Rivadavia Thursday upheld in a 2-1 vote the arraignment of former Argentine officers Eduardo Gassino, Belisario Affranchino Rumi, Gustavo Calderini and Miguel Ángel Garde for “imposition of torments” on soldiers under their command during the 1982 armed conflict with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands.
Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:54 UTC
Brazil Vice-President dubs Argentina “an eternal beggar”

In a statement supporting the government's proposed fiscal adjustment, Brazil's Vice President Hamilton Mourao Thursday labelled Argentina an “eternal beggar,” which might spark another diplomatic incident, of which the administration of President Alberto Fernández has had a handful in the past few days.