Argentina

Thursday, December 31st 2020 - 08:30 UTC
Argentina suspends corn export sales until March; farmers' surprised and furious

Argentina will suspend sales of corn for export until Feb. 28, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday, announcing the surprise move as part of the government's effort to ensure ample domestic food supplies.
Wednesday, December 30th 2020 - 09:10 UTC
Argentina approves bill to legalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy

Argentina's Senate voted to legalize elective abortion early Wednesday, marking a historic political shift in the heavily Catholic country and larger region.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:39 UTC
Malvinas Veteran in tears after his Argentine military ID was sold on the UK eBay website

By Heather Briley for MercoPress

LONDON, UK – Almost forty years after the Falklands conflict the identity document of an Argentine soldier has been sold on the UK eBay website. It belongs to the director of the Malvinas Museum in Buenos Aires, Edgardo Esteban, 58. He expressed his dismay at the sale and was moved to tears that it had surfaced after all this time.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:26 UTC
Argentina will begin inoculation with the Russian vaccine on Tuesday

Argentina will begin vaccinating its citizens against coronavirus on Tuesday using the recently delivered Russian Sputnik V vaccine, the government said on Saturday, following its approval by health authorities for emergency use.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:15 UTC
Argentine Senate debates abortion bill on Tuesday; tight vote but with good chances of passing

The Argentine Senate will on Tuesday debate a Bill that, if it passes into law, would make the country by far the largest in Latin America to legalize abortion. The proposed legislation would allow women to terminate pregnancies up until the 14th week. Currently, abortion is allowed only in cases of rape and when there is a threat to the life of the mother.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 08:30 UTC
Argentina's soy oil manufacturers and exporters unions' strike could end this week

Argentina's influential chamber of soy oil manufacturers and exporters on Sunday improved an offer to striking workers, seeking to end a more than two-week standoff that has bogged down exports from one of the world's main breadbaskets.
Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Argentina authorizes Sputnik V vaccine; first batch of 300.000 doses expected on Thursday

Argentina's health ministry said on Wednesday it has given the controversial Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine “emergency” authorization, making the country the first in Latin America to do so. The first shipment of the total 25 million doses of the vaccine bought by the Argentine government is due to arrive on Thursday.
Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:46 UTC
Argentina lockdown until 8 January

Argentina established new requirements for entering and leaving the country, starting on Friday through January 8, the Interior Ministry said in a statement issued on Wednesday, in a bid to rein in the coronavirus.
Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:30 UTC
Two weeks of industrial action in Argentina's soy crushers and export ports

Soymeal manufacturers in Argentina presented late on Tuesday a proposal aimed at ending a two-week strike by oil and port workers unions that has thrown a wrench in the flow of agricultural exports from one of the world’s main bread baskets.
Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina extends emergency approval to the Pfizer anti Covid-19 vaccine

Argentina's medicine and food regulator extended on Tuesday an emergency use for the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine in the country. These vaccines are expected to arrive in Argentina sometime between January and March.