Argentina

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 04:34 UTC

  Rosario still hopes Messi will return some day to play for Newell's Old Boys

  

  Argentina's third-largest city had dared to dream but was left disappointed after the city's most celebrated son Lionel Messi announced he was staying at Barcelona. When Messi told the Spanish giants last week he wanted to quit the club, some back in his home town and at Newell's Old Boys, the club where he played junior football, allowed themselves to imagine the 33-year-old superstar returning home to play for his boyhood team.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina and UK agree on new stage of Humanitarian Plan to identify fallen combatants in the Falklands

  

  UK and Argentina exchanged notes on Thursday in order to advance to a new stage in the Humanitarian Project Plan, which between 2017 and 2019 enabled the identification of 115 Argentine soldiers who died in the Falkland Islands during the 1982 conflict.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil/Argentina spat over non automatic import licenses delaying Mercosur bilateral trade

  

  Brazil expressed its disenchantment with the Argentine policy of delaying the approval of the so-called nonautomatic import licenses which has seen millions of dollars in sales held at the border. This situation has been increasing in recent months, in what is considered a breach of bilateral accords in the framework of Mercosur agreements, and the World Trade Organization, WTO, rules.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentina/China accord to produce nine million tons of pork delayed by environmentalists

  

  The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between China and Argentina scheduled for this week has been delayed until November, the Argentine foreign ministry announced officially on Tuesday. The delay will enable to add an “article referred to the protection of the environment, natural resources, and bio-security”, added the release.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina restructures 99% of US$ 66bn debt issued under foreign legislation: now IMF and debt in local legislation

  

  Recession-hit Argentina has managed to restructure 99% of US$ 66 billion in debt issued under foreign legislation, Economy Minister Martin Guzman announced on Monday.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Argentina's ruling coalition planning a one time “solidarity tax” on 12,000 wealthy contributors

  

  Argentina’s ruling coalition, Frente de Todos, is seeking to impose a one-time tax on wealthy citizens as part of a strategy to solidify the alliance’s populist credentials while boosting government revenue amid a deteriorating economic crisis.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Argentine president would like Messi to finish his career in Newell's Old Boys

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez has urged Lionel Messi to finish his career in his home country. The Barcelona forward spent several years in the academy at Newell's Old Boys in Rosario before moving to Europe as a teenager.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina preparing to draft an oil exploration round in its extended South Atlantic continental shelf

  

  Oil and fisheries will spearhead Argentina's new efforts in its sovereignty claims over the Falkland Islands, according to Martin Dinatale, an Argentine columnist with good contacts in the foreign ministry and who has followed the Islands dispute for years.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Argentina confirms that the humanitarian flights policy with Falklands, stands

  

  Despite denying a recent air trip from Montevideo to the Falkland Islands, the Argentine foreign ministry stated that the “humanitarian flights policy” for the Islanders stands, and said that last Friday a flight from the Islands to Chile, with health risk patients, crossing Argentine space had been approved.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentina determined to promote oil and gas production and exports

  

  Argentina’s new energy secretary Dario Martinez plans to promote oil and natural gas production with a view to increasing exports as part of a strategy to pull the economy out of one of its worst crises on record.