Argentina

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina complains of Uruguayan acquiescence to RAF transport aircraft

  

  Argentina filed a formal complaint Tuesday before Uruguay for allowing a British Royal Air Force transport aircraft serving the Falkland Islands to refuel at Montevideo on April 4, it was reported.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 07:17 UTC

  Mar del Plata's Sheraton Hotel closes for… ¿two months?

  

  The Sheraton Hotel in the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata Tuesday decided to shut down for two months and take advantage of a Labor Law clause that allows companies to keep their staff earning 75 per cent of their salaries in crisis such as the coronavirus pandemic.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguay formally requests meeting with Argentina to work on Mercosur's flexibilization

  

  Uruguay's Foreign Ministry Monday submitted a formal request to the Argentine government to hold a meeting to discuss the flexibility of Mercosur, it was reported.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2021 - 08:48 UTC

  Russia's Putin invites Argentine President over to discuss bilateral cooperation

  

  Russia's President Vladimir Putin Monday held a phone conversation with his Argentine colleague Alberto Fernández, whom he invited over to Moscow for talks to advance cooperation issues.

• Monday, April 5th 2021 - 10:20 UTC

  Argentina's economy can't afford another total lockdown, minister says

  

  Argentina's economy minister Martin Guzman said in a television interview on Saturday that his country could not afford a new total quarantine and made it clear that the government would have to find another way to deal with the new stage of the covid-19 pandemic.

• Monday, April 5th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Scania CEO in Argentina foresees record exports for 2021

  

  Scania CEO Andrés Leonard Sunday said in an interview he foresaw a 75% increase in “exports from Tucumán to the world” of bus and lorry gearbox parts.

• Monday, April 5th 2021 - 08:49 UTC

  Sales of used cars skyrocket in Argentina

  

  An increase of up to 65% in the sales of used cars was recorded this past month of March in Argentina, the Chamber of Automotive Commerce (CCA) reported.

• Saturday, April 3rd 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Argentine President Fernández turns 62, tests positive for Covid-19

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández announced late on this Good Friday that he had been tested positive for covid-19 as he was rounding up his 62nd birthday's celebrations.

• Saturday, April 3rd 2021 - 07:30 UTC

  Argentine government launches Covid-19 vaccine passport

  

  The Argentine government Friday announced the creation of a so-called coronavirus vaccine passport for domestic travel. The document, which runs within the Mi Argentina smartphone app, collects data from the Federal Registry of Nominalized Vaccination.

• Saturday, April 3rd 2021 - 07:04 UTC

  Next year's won't be just another Malvinas anniversary, Argentine Defense Minister Rossi vowed

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Agustin Rossi Friday presided over the ceremony where the Armed Forces commemorated the 39th anniversary of the military landing on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands which eventually led to the 1982 armed conflict with the United Kingdom and promised things will be different a year from now.