Argentina

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 13:08 UTC

  Argentine president and agro-exporter Vicentin CEO scheduled to meet on Thursday

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez will receive this Thursday the board members of one of the country's largest agro-exporter groups, Vicentín, following the government's decision to intervene the company, a controversial measure that triggered an immediate reaction from congressional opposition and public opinion.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Argentine couple finally collects their child in Kiev born to a surrogate Ukrainian mother

  

  For parents Jose Perez and Flavia Lavorino, the wait is finally over. On Wednesday, the couple from Buenos Aires met their baby son Manu for the first time, 71 days after he was born to a surrogate mother 12,875km away in Ukraine.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 07:53 UTC

  Falklands: Three Argentine bills to reaffirm rights over the South Atlantic Islands

  

  Three bills referred to Argentina's sovereignty claim over South Atlantic islands and adjoining maritime spaces will be sent to Congress, announced president Alberto Fernández on Wednesday from the official Olivos residency next to foreign minister Felipe Solá, according to an official release.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  Argentina's economy could contract 9,5% in 2020, according to central bank poll

  

  Argentina’s economy is seen shrinking 9.5% in 2020, according to a monthly poll of analysts by the central bank released on Friday, compared with an estimated 7% decline in the previous survey, as the activity gets walloped by a nationwide lockdown against the coronavirus pandemic.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 07:40 UTC

  Argentina's Vicentin soy giant claims government never informed it of taking over the group

  

  Late Monday the Vicentin soy crushing giant group, which Argentine president Alberto Fernandez had previously announced it would take over to ensure jobs and food sovereignty, made public a release denying any job losses and revealing it was in talks with interested parties to overcome the current under administration situation.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

  Argentina will take over soy-crushing giant, currently under administration

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced Monday evening a plan to seize crop trader Vicentin SAIC in a move that is anticipated will ring alarm bells in soy markets, among investors in the country and even the current foreign debt negotiations.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 11:04 UTC

  Argentina extends quarantine to 28 June in metropolitan Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina decided to prolong the quarantine linked to the COVID-19 pandemic until 28 June in the areas most affected by the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday. The president made the announcement next to Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires province, which concentrates 40% of the country's population, and most virus cases.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina's industrial output collapsed 33,5% in April compared to April 2019

  

  Argentina's industrial output crashed 33.5% in April from the same month last year, the government's statistics agency said on Thursday, as the national lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic bludgeoned Latin America's No. 3 economy.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 07:31 UTC

  Argentina auto industry rebounding gradually from zero production in April

  

  The Argentine auto industry bottomed out in April, the first full month of the quarantine in force in the country since March 20. With all its factories closed since that day, not a single vehicle left the assembly lines, a catastrophe without historical precedent. But little by little, last week they came back to life under strict sanitary protocols, with only one shift per day and production at one-third of the installed capacity.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Argentina extends debt negotiations deadline to 12 June: “adjustment margin remains thin”

  

  Argentina extended the deadline to negotiate with its creditors to June 12 and may sweeten its most recent restructuring offer, the country said on Monday, after a previous proposal was deemed insufficient by some investors.