Argentina

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:52 UTC

  Argentine Lower House passes bill legalizing abortion; a harder battle forecasted in the Senate

  

  Argentina’s lower house of Congress approved a bill to legalize abortion in the early hours of Friday morning, a big step forward for the legislation that could set the tone for a wider shift in conservative Latin America.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Argentina takes over the Mercosur chair for six months next 16 December

  

  Uruguay will hand to Argentina next 16 December the pro tempore chair of the South American trade bloc Mercosur. The ceremony as happened six months before with Paraguay will be virtual given the coronavirus pandemic, according to a release from the Uruguayan Executive Office.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentine businessman awarded an OBE for helping with Falklands/Malvinas humanitarian project

  

  An Argentine businessman, president of one of the country's largest corporations, has been awarded the Order of the British Empire, OBE, for “his services to relations between the United Kingdom and Argentina.”

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 23:47 UTC

  Argentina will begin inoculation with the Russian vaccine; President Fernandez will receive first shot

  

  Argentina said it has secured doses to begin administering Russia’s Sputnik vaccine before year-end and President Alberto Fernandez will be the first to take it. The government is planning to give the shot to 10 million vulnerable Argentines before March, Fernandez said.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 19:58 UTC

  Argentine grain inspectors and oilseed workers extend the wage strike

  

  Argentine grains inspectors and oilseeds workers extended on Friday a wage strike as stalling contract negotiations threaten to interrupt exports from one of the world's main grain producers.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Brazilian and Argentine beef exports to China suspended after Covid-19 in packaging

  

  Two beef producers from Brazil and one from Argentina have had their exports to China suspended for one week after packaging of their products tested positive for traces of COVID-19, customs said. China's General Administration of Customs (GAC) made the announcement.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 10:39 UTC

  Quito officially complains statements by Cristina Fernandez questioning democracy in Ecuador

  

  The Government of Ecuador announced that it has presented a protest note before a statement by Argentina’s Vice-President Cristina Fernández on the alleged obstacles to the candidacy of Andrés Aráuz, the Ecuadorian progressive candidate.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Argentine oilseed and grains exports stalled with new wage strike

  

  Argentine grains inspectors and oilseeds workers started a new wage strike on Wednesday, organizers said in a joint statement, as stalling contract negotiations threatened to interrupt exports from one of the world's main bread baskets.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Argentina Covid-19 cases topped 40,000 deaths on Tuesday

  

  The death toll from the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, in Argentina has topped 40,000, the country's Health Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  International Contact Group reject Venezuelan election, but Argentina did not sign the statement

  

  The International Contact Group issued a statement on Tuesday to reject the parliamentary elections organized by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro last Sunday in Venezuela. The block indicated that the electoral process did not comply “with the conditions accepted internationally, nor with the Venezuelan laws.”