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Montevideo, June 6th 2025 - 06:56 UTC

Argentina

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

    YPF to sell Metrogas stake to focus on Vaca Muerta

    Now it is the right time, Marín argued

    Argentina's state-run oil company YPF announced Tuesday that it plans to sell its shares in cooking gas distributor Metrogas to invest those funds in Vaca Muerta. YPF CEO Horacio Marín also outlined before the Inter-American Council of Trade and Production (Cicyp) the strategy to increase by fourfold the company's value over the next four years.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Argentine workers carry out major strike

    These strikes are “harming those who want to work,” Adorni argued

    Argentina's leading public workers labor union Association of State Workers (ATE) launched at noon Tuesday a 36-hour strike to protest against the Libertarian administration of President Javier Milei's recent layoffs and spending cutbacks, in addition to demanding wage adjustments to cope with inflation. The measure is also fueled by a 24-hour stoppage affecting air, railroad, and underground services.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 22:25 UTC

    Punta Tombo penguin massacre trial begins

    The prosecution seeks 4 years in jail for La Regina

    The trial against Argentine Patagonian rancher Luis Alberto La Regina started this week in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia in the province of Chubut. He is prosecuted for the destruction of 175 nests, with an average of two eggs per nest, in addition to crushing chicks and adult animals in a natural sanctuary to open a rural road in what became known as the Punta Tombo Massacre. The defendant was denounced by his nephew back in 2021.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

    Mondino says conditions are in place to resume flights from Córdoba to Mount Pleasant

    “The mainland and the islands should have better connections,” insisted Mondino

    Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino insisted Monday in an interview published by the Financial Times that ”the conditions are in place to resume flights to the Malvinas (Falklands)” from Córdoba. These flights were halted during the COVID-19 pandemic and never resumed due to tensions between the former governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom, both of which are no longer in power.

  • Monday, October 28th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    CFK poised to become Peronist Party Chairwoman

    Barring the Judiciary ruling otherwise, CFK will be the sole contender at the Nov. 17 party elections

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) will be appointed chairwoman of the Justicialist (Peronist) Party (PJ) after La Rioja Governor Ricardo Quintela failed to produce the required number of endorsing signatures leaving the two-time head of state as the sole contender.

  • Monday, October 28th 2024 - 07:45 UTC

    Argentine mayor says hitmen chased him while in Paraguay

    Basualdo insisted he was not aligned with Insfrán's faction within Formosa's Peronist Party

    Atilio Basualdo, the Mayor of the Argentine city of Las Lomitas in the province of Formosa said Sunday that hitmen had tried to kill him while visiting neighboring Asunción in Paraguay on Saturday afternoon. He also hinted Formosa's Peronist Governor Gildo Insfran could have been involved.

  • Sunday, October 27th 2024 - 00:12 UTC

    Argentina’s Copa de la Liga odds for Canadian bettors

    The official name of this event is Copa de la Liga Profesional, but most people just call it Copa de la Liga

    Many people consider Brazil to be the greatest football nation, but we personally believe that Argentina adds something even more unique to the global sport. Okay, they are the reigning world champions with one and only GOAT Lionel Messi, but the real magic of Argentinian soccer is best seen from the inside.

  • Friday, October 25th 2024 - 19:45 UTC

    Argentina discloses identity of alleged Hezbollah Chief in South America

    “Hussein Ahmad Karaki oversaw the logistics of the two bombings against Argentina,” Bullrich said during a press conference

    Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich Friday released a picture and data of the alleged Hezbollah leader in South America, who she also claimed was involved in the bombings in Buenos Aires of the Israeli Embassy in 1992 and the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) in 1994. The suspect was identified as Hussein Ahmad Karaki and was said to be currently in Lebanon.

  • Friday, October 25th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

    IMF to think about what is best for Argentina, says Georgieva

    “We see the improvements,” Georgieva admitted

    Argentina's Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo met Thursday in Washington DC with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, who then announced that “we have an objective, which is to think together, as a single team, what is best for Argentina”.

  • Thursday, October 24th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina to sack whoever used the “Falklands” in an official document

    Referring to the Malvinas as “Falkland” was a “malicious” and “serious” error, the Argentina authorities claimed

    Argentina's Defense Ministry will be sacking the person responsible for using the word “Falklands” on the Argentina.gob.ar website when it should have been “Malvinas.”