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Montevideo, April 28th 2025 - 09:13 UTC

Argentina

  • Thursday, August 29th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina's ruling party lawmakers keep leaving the boat

    Paoltroni questioned Milei's overly discretional handling of funds to the detriment of the needy

    Just one day after the departure of Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta from the ruling La Libertad Avanza's (LLA) Lower House bloc, Formosa's Francisco Paoltroni was expelled Wednesday from the party's grouping on the Senate citing “irreconcilable differences,” which would corroborate that an alliance built up in haste to endorse Javier Milei's presidential bid was not achieved seamlessly.

  • Thursday, August 29th 2024 - 08:32 UTC

    Argentina betting on lithium and copper projects to overcome recession

    Minister Luis Lucero said Argentina was pushing to become a global supplier of lithium and copper with significant foreign investment

    With electric battery lithium leading, Argentina mining exports are expected to double to some US$ 10 billion in three years time, according to minister Luis Lucero who anticipated that copper is the other metal that will also have a huge boost given its importance in powering electric vehicles and artificial intelligence.

  • Thursday, August 29th 2024 - 08:18 UTC

    Case in Comodoro Rivadavia not mpox, lab tests show

    People who have had mpox in the past “are more likely to have some immunity than others,” the WHO explained

    Health authorities in the Argentine Patagonian city of Comodoro Rivadavia admitted Wednesday that a suspected case of monkeypox was ruled out after the laboratory results came in.

  • Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 19:02 UTC

    FACh triggers alert over unidentified aircraft neat Strait of Magellan

    When the F-5s reached the area there were no signs of the intruding aircraft

    Chile's Air Force (FACh) deployed two F-5 fighter jets from the Chabunco air base in Punta Arenas after unidentified traffic was detected Tuesday at around 7 pm local time in the vicinity. Some Chilean outlets said the alleged intruder stemmed from Argentina but Defense Minister Maya Fernández never admitted (nor denied) the possibility.

  • Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei announces documentary about his path to Casa Rosada

    The six-episode production will be broadcast through X

    Argentine President Javier Milei Tuesday launched a film series on his fast political career to be made available through the social media platform X. The docuseries still has no premiere date and will be directed by Casa Rosada's regisseur Santiago Oría. The production will be titled “From Zero to President. The Phenomenon that Captivates the World.”

  • Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Argentina: Congresswoman Arrieta leaves LLA bloc – ruling party feebler?

    Menem fears that discrepancies within LLA's bloc fuels destabilizing rumors

    Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta announced Tuesday that she was resigning from La Libertad Avanza's bloc to form her one-seat force in the Lower House. After being involved in a series of incidents regarding the visit of a group of lawmakers to incarcerated human rights violators during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, Arrieta claimed that “I cannot be part of a party where I am not respected.”

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    Argentina: Breakup among Libertarian lawmakers imminent

    Arrieta said Martín Menem called her “a little whore”

    Libertarian Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta, who gained notoriety for claiming she did not know who the people she visited with a group of fellow lawmakers at the Ezeiza penitentiary because she had been born in 1993, keeps undermining whichever unity President Javier Milei's Parliamentarians might have left by denouncing House Speaker Martín Menem for allegedly labeling the female deputies of his bloc as ”whores.

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 23:13 UTC

    The Economist: Javier Milei's military splurge; many Argentines are asking why

    On 9th July, Argentina's national day president Milei was invited to the lead tank of the grand parade downtown Buenos Aires

    Self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalists ought to be skeptical of large standing armies. President Javier Milei of Argentina seems to relish them. Even as he tightens the government purse, he has committed to raising defense spending from 0.5% of gdp to 2% over the next eight years. He vows to “restore the prestige” of the army and transform it into a hi-tech force.

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 09:49 UTC

    US Embassy in Buenos Aires issues “black widow” travel alert

    Tourists were also suggested to trust their instincts and not hesitate to walk away from any awkward situation

    The United States Embassy in Buenos Aires Thursday issued an alert to American travelers willing to visit the Argentine capital given an increase in cases of “black widows,” women who drug their occasional partners to steal their belongings, particularly at bars and among users of dating apps.

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 09:28 UTC

    Fire at Argentine oil refinery contained in time

    First aid responders were summoned from the PNA and the municipalities of Ensenada and Berisso

    A tank at the Ingeniero Enrique Mosconi Refinery Industrial Complex in the city of Ensenada -south of Buenos Aires and east of La Plata- belonging to Argentina's State-run oil company YPF caught fire Thursday at around 4.30 pm. The high smoke clouds polluted a vast part of the densely populated area but no victims were mentioned in the preliminary report.