Argentina

• Thursday, August 20th 2020 - 10:58 UTC

  Falklands' return humanitarian flight: ample media coverage to the cancelling by Argentina

  

  The Argentine government decision to impede a return humanitarian flight from Montevideo to Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands received ample coverage in the Uruguayan and Argentine media.

• Thursday, August 20th 2020 - 10:55 UTC

  Investor's concern with the shaky Argentine economy, despite the deal with bond holders

  

  Argentine bonds extended a recent dip after the government formalized its US$ 65 billion debt restructuring offer, underscoring investor concern about the country’s shaky economy despite creditors’ rallying behind a deal.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands or Malvinas? Market-based referendum proposal

  

  By Steve Hank (*) – On August 4, Argentina, the world’s biggest deadbeat, announced that it had reached a deal with its creditors on its US$ 65 billion worth of defaulted debt. The next day, the United Nations Decolonization Committee — the C24 — unanimously passed a resolution urging the United Kingdom and Argentina to resolve their differences over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. Or, are they the Malvinas?

• Tuesday, August 18th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Thousands waving national flags demonstrate across Argentina to protest against government plans

  

  Thousands of demonstrators across Argentina's main cities defied social distancing rules to answer calls to protest against a government announcement last Friday to extend containment measures in the Buenos Aires region until Aug 30 and to condemn a controversial reform of the judicial branch.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  Argentina will formalize the bond restructuring offer to US Securities and Exchange Committee Monday

  

  The Argentine government formalized its amended bond restructuring offer on Saturday night, confirming in a presidential decree that it would submit the new deal to the US Securities and Exchange Commission this Monday.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 09:12 UTC

  Mexico besides AstraZeneca is also working with French, US and Chinese labs for a Covid-19 vaccine

  

  Mexico will need up to 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses, according to a senior government official, and inoculation of its 120 million inhabitants could start as early as April if clinical trials and regulatory approvals for pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca go as planned.

• Saturday, August 15th 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentina's social distancing extended until August 30; daily infections are above 7,000

  

  Argentina extended until Aug 30 restrictions taken against the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said on Friday, underlining that the country's lockdown would continue in its current form in and around capital city Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, August 15th 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  Argentine soy oil contracts under pressure from “wash out” by Chinese importers

  

  Chinese importers have started to practice “wash out” with Argentine soy oil contracts, which is having an impact on the local industry.

• Friday, August 14th 2020 - 09:38 UTC

  Argentina inflation in July was 1,9% and the 12-month rate 42,4%

  

  Argentina's July inflation rate was 1.9%, the government's Indec statistics agency reported on Thursday, bringing the seven-month rate to 15,8% and the 12-month rate to 42.4%. During July the items which showed the main increase were Housing maintenance, 3,9% and Leisure and Culture, 3,3%, with a special emphasis in electronics and home appliances.

• Thursday, August 13th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Argentina and Mexico will produce and distribute the Covid-19 Oxford University vaccine in Latin America

  

  President Alberto Fernández, announced on Wednesday that Argentina together with Mexico, will produce for Latin America the coronavirus vaccine developed by the AstraZeneca laboratory in collaboration with the British University of Oxford.