Argentina

Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 08:25 UTC
Cristina Fernandez again president, but will not move from her office in Congress

Vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is again president of Argentina, although on an interim basis, while the head of state Alberto Fernandez is off to Israel for a summit of world leaders to a homage to Holocaust victims.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 08:23 UTC
Australian tourist stabbed and hospitalized in Buenos Aires; they were scheduled to take a cruise to Antarctica

An Australian tourist was stabbed in Buenos Aires while jogging close to the Law School in the posh neighbourhood of La Recoleta. Apparently he was attacked by a lonely delinquent with the intention of robbing his belongings and cellular phone.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 08:14 UTC
Trump senior advisor says Bolivia's Morales has become a headache for Argentina

A senior adviser to president Trump said that former Bolivian leader Evo Morales has become a “headache” for Argentina. Mauricio Claver-Carone told the Bolivian newspaper Pagina Siete that Argentina should have focused on its economic issues instead of granting Morales asylum.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 08:01 UTC
Argentina manages to swap treasury bills rescheduling the repayment calendar

Argentina’s economy ministry said on Monday it had exchanged Treasury bills with an original face value of 99.6 billion pesos (US$1.66 billion) in a debt swap auction to help push back its repayment schedule amid a wider economic crisis.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 07:21 UTC
Ex president Mujica calls Argentines “swindlers”; Buenos Aires media demand an apology

Uruguayan ex-president Jose Mujica is well known for his eclectic statements, expressed in the most coarse language, and in these austral summer days, with much sun and hard-drinking, was again at it, this time mocking the Argentines and his Kirchner friends which he openly supported in the recent election that meant the return of the Ks' populism.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina pledges bill to attract investment for production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez will send a bill to Congress to attract investment for the production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, a spokesman for the Production Development ministry said.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:30 UTC
Justice demanded for Argentina's slain terrorism prosecutor

By Toby Dershowitz - Alberto Nisman once told me he agreed to investigate Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack on one condition: that he be able to pursue the case wherever the evidence led. This commitment to justice ultimately cost Nisman his life five years ago this week. (January 18)
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:11 UTC
Fernandez off to Israel for a Holocaust Remembrance summit ceremony; Macron, Putin, Pence among attendants

Argentine president Alberto Fernández will visit Jerusalem this week to participate in the International Leaders Forum in Commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, which will constitute his first official trip overseas after taking office on December 10.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 07:33 UTC
Nisman's homage turns into allegations of an impunity pact between president Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner

Thousands marched in downtown Buenos Aires, on Saturday. demanding an answer to the still unsolved mysterious death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found with a gunshot to the head, exactly five years ago ( January 18).
Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:58 UTC
Support words from IMF chief for Argentina's efforts to recover the economy

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday the lender has had “very constructive” exchanges with Argentina's new Peronist government and would do whatever possible to assist the indebted country.