Argentina

Thursday, December 12th 2019 - 18:17 UTC
Evo Morales and entourage in Buenos Aires to stay as a political refugees

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Thursday landed at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza international airport amid tight security and top secrecy to settle in the country where he has been granted political asylum, Foreign Minister Felipe Sola told reporters. “He feels better here than in Mexico,” Solá added. “He is here to stay,” he went on.
Wednesday, December 11th 2019 - 23:59 UTC
To recover Falklands' sovereignty, president Fernandez pledges peace, diplomacy and ...patience

Argentine president Alberto Fernandez after taking the oath of office on Tuesday midday made his first speech to Congress in which he included a strong reference and claim to the Falklands and South Atlantic Islands.
Wednesday, December 11th 2019 - 23:25 UTC
Last Argentine Junta member dies aged 93

Former Air Force General Omar Domingo Rubens Graffigna died under house arrest on Monday, it was announced.
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.