Argentina

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Fernandez with Lopez Obrador, “satisfied in meeting with someone who thinks so similarly to me”

  

  Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernández met with his Mexican soon-to-be counterpart on Monday seeking to boost bilateral and regional cooperation in his first foreign trip since winning election last month.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Malvinas “Virgin of Lujan” image finally arrives to Buenos Aires

  

  An image of Argentina Patroness, the Virgin of Lujan which was left behind by the Argentine soldiers at the end of the Falklands/Malvinas war, and was recently returned by the United Kingdom and blessed by Pope Francis in the Vatican, finally arrived in Buenos Aires early morning Monday, 37 years after the conflict was over.

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 19:32 UTC

  Fernández's government “won't change” its vision regarding Venezuela for debt renegotiation

  

  The Peronist Felipe Solá, one of the candidates for minister of foreign affairs in the government of the president-elect of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, said Monday that the next administration, to renegotiate the debt, will not change its vision regarding Venezuela.

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  “No one from the Fernandez team has spoken officially on the Malvinas issue”

  

  Felipe Sola is a pragmatic Peronist, ex Agriculture minister with president Carlos Menem, former elected governor of the Buenos Aires province, the most significant electoral circumscription of Argentina and is increasingly mentioned as the next minister of foreign affairs and worship. Solá is currently with president-elect Alberto Fernandez in Mexico and before leaving was interviewed and made some announcements referred to the “Malvinas Islands”.

• Friday, November 1st 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentina: official transition with incoming administration takes off next week

  

  Argentina's official transition in anticipation of 10 December when elected president Alberto Fernandez takes office, is scheduled to begin next Wednesday when Fernandez returns from his first overseas trip to Mexico.

• Friday, November 1st 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentina imposes more money exchange restrictions to defend reserves

  

  Argentina’s central bank is setting a price floor under the volatile peso in hopes to avoid a sharp plunge in the currency after an opposition-won presidential election last Sunday shifted the country firmly back to the left.

• Friday, November 1st 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  US expects Argentina to uphold its commitments to IMF, Mnuchin said

  

  The United States expects Argentina’s incoming Peronist government to uphold the country’s commitment to the terms of its US$ 57 billion International Monetary Fund loan program, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.

• Friday, November 1st 2019 - 07:57 UTC

  Alberto Fernandez son is an Instagram famous model “Dyhzy”

  

  Argentina's president-elect Alberto Fernández has repeatedly copped backlash over his son Estanislao. The son, 24, works in insurance and studies design and is also an Instagram famous model 'Dyhzy', known for his creative cosplay and drag outfits.

• Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Fernandez thanks Johnson's message but insists he will claim Falklands sovereignty

  

  Argentine president-elect Alberto Fernandez thanked British prime minister Boris Johnson for his congratulation message but also cautioned that he will not give up the sovereignty claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

• Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Falklands' conflict reconciliation: Pope blesses exchange of Virgin of Lujan images

  

  In a conciliatory gesture 37 years after the Falklands War, military bishops from Great Britain and Argentina exchanged images of the Virgin Mary on Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square, blessed by Pope Francis.