Argentina

Wednesday, December 11th 2019 - 23:17 UTC
Argentina needs to get back on its feet first, says new President

Argentina's new president Alberto Fernández highlighted Tuesday in his opening speech that his country needs to get back on its feet before anything else after four years of inadequate management by his predecessor Mauricio Macri, as he launched a series of proposals to bounce back from recession and social fracture.
Wednesday, December 11th 2019 - 18:32 UTC
Search for missing Chilean aircraft becomes international matter

No progress has been reported by Wednesday afternoon in the search for the missing Chilean Air Force (FACh) Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft with which all radio contact was lost at 6.13 p.m. Monday.
Wednesday, December 11th 2019 - 03:10 UTC
Argentine president anticipates a close relationship with Brazil, no matter rulers' personal differences

Argentine president Alberto Fernández announced support for Mercosur and anticipated a joint ambitious all embracing agenda with Brazil, based on shared fraternal history and which he underlined is far beyond any personal difference of current rulers.
Tuesday, December 10th 2019 - 17:25 UTC
Brazilian VP attends presidential inauguration in Argentina, calls for mutual help

Brazil's Vicepresident Hamilton Mourao Tuesday said in Buenos Aires that his country and Argentina must help each other as he attended President Alberto Fernández' inauguration after news reports had heralded the Jair Bolsonaro administration was not sending any dignitaries for the occasion.
Tuesday, December 10th 2019 - 13:52 UTC
Mexico pulls ambassador from Buenos Aires after being caught red handed

Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Monday ordered the prompt return of Ambassador Oscar Ricardo Valero Recio Becerra from his Argentina commission after surveillance footage caught the diplomat red-handed trying to shoplift a nine-US-dollar book from an iconic Buenos Aires bookstore.
Tuesday, December 10th 2019 - 11:30 UTC
Peronism is back in Argentina: Alberto Fernández assumes as President

Peronism will return to power in Argentina from Tuesday. The political force will do it in the hands of the elected President, Alberto Fernández, who will go to the Casa Rosada, the presidential headquarters, at noon after presenting the oath in the Congress to the outgoing vice president, Gabriela Michetti
Monday, December 9th 2019 - 09:56 UTC
Brazil will send no delegate to Argentine president Fernandez inauguration, media reports

Brazil’s government scrapped plans to send a delegate to Alberto Fernandez’s inauguration ceremony in Argentina, representing an escalation in tensions between South America’s top economies.
Monday, December 9th 2019 - 09:55 UTC
Macri and Fernandez embrace, for a few seconds, at the Lujan Basilica

Outgoing Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his successor Alberto Fernandez embraced for a few seconds on Sunday at the Lujan Basilica, the country's main sanctuary to the Virgin Mary. The gesture was minimum and a few seconds but it was done on request from the Catholic Church.
Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:58 UTC
Fernandez unveils his cabinet and heterodox economic team with a growth led recovery plan

Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernandez unveiled his cabinet and new central bank chief on Friday evening, laying out his core team days before the center-left leader takes office facing a stalled economy, rising debt fears and painful inflation.
Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:50 UTC
Future Argentine economy minister is US trained and an academic expert in sovereign debt

Argentina’s Martin Guzman, a whiz-kid economist with close ties to influential U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz, will bring a sharp academic intellect but little policy-making experience to the daunting task of reviving Latin America’s third-largest economy and averting a damaging default.