Argentina

• Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Argentina again forced to ramp LNG imports , as domestic gas production falls

  

  Argentina forced to quickly ramp up LNG imports in the coming winter months to meet its heating season, as domestic gas production dwindles and Bolivian pipeline imports slow.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentine president attacks opposition, Judiciary, media and economic powers

  

  In a defiant speech before the Legislative that launched the campaign for the October midterm elections, Argentine president Alberto Fernandez on Monday opened the 139th Congressional period of ordinary sessions with a barrage of attacks on the opposition, Judiciary, media and the concentrated economic powers.

• Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 13:50 UTC

  Argentina's health minister in quarantine

  

  Argentina’s health minister Carla Vizzotti said on Friday she had tested positive for COVID-19 and would quarantine for several days. Vizzotti, a week on the job, replaced former minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia who resigned following reports that VIPs in Argentina had jumped the line to receive vaccination shots early.

• Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 10:21 UTC

  Thousands in Argentina express indignation at the VIP vaccination scandal

  

  Thousands took to the streets in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires and other main cities on Saturday to protest against the government of Alberto Fernandez following the VIP vaccination scandal, which meant a privileged few, mainly politicians, families, and cronies, were able to skip queues and receive the Covid 19 jabs.

• Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 10:15 UTC

  Pope Francis expects to die in Rome, “I will not return to Argentina”

  

  Pope Francis expects to die in Rome, still the Catholic pontiff, without returning to spend his final days in his native Argentina, according to a new book titled The Health Of Popes.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 13:54 UTC

  IMF admits discussions with Argentina continue but no meeting planned for May

  

  IMF has no date yet set for its next visit to Argentina to discuss replacement to a failed 2018 program, a spokesman for the Fund advanced on Thursday. The parties could next meet in Washington soon, as Argentine Economy Minister Martin Guzman will visit the U.S. capital next month, according to Buenos Aires sources.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 13:29 UTC

  Argentina receives 904,000 doses of China's Sinopharm vaccine

  

  Argentina has received 904,000 doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in its first delivery from the Chinese drugmaker, the government said on Thursday, which should help the country accelerate its inoculation program.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Kirchnerist businessman Baéz will remain under house arrest; family divided over harsh sentences

  

  Argentine businessman and associate of former president Néstor Kirchner, Lázaro Báez will not return to jail for the moment. He will continue with an electronic anklet under the modality of house arrest in a house located in a gated community in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, February 25th 2021 - 10:22 UTC

  Argentina: the icon of Kirchners' business friends sentenced to 12 years in jail for money laundering

  

  Argentine justice despite its disrepute has inflicted a mighty blow to the dominant force of the country's political system since 2003, the Nestor and Cristina Kirchner couple, currently headed by the widow Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Thursday, February 25th 2021 - 10:20 UTC

  Optimistic forecast in coming months for Argentina's economic activity

  

  Argentina’s economic activity was down 10% during 2020 after falling 2.2% in December versus a year earlier, but better than the average fall analysts forecasted and that the initial government projections.