Argentina

Monday, June 13th 2022 - 09:32 UTC
Argentines not too keen on taking Covid-19 booster shots

Argentine health authorities have reported that. although the COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet, fewer people showed up for their boosted dose of vaccine, due to a false low-risk perception which makes coverage not sufficient.
Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:44 UTC
Milei launches presidential bid in fiasco event attended by only a few

Argentine Congressman Javier Milei, who had been slated as a strong presidential contender in next year's elections, Friday staged a major fiasco when in a football stadium with a capacity of 14,000 people, only some 1,500 gathered to see him launch his Casa Rosada bid.
Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:37 UTC
Locking in Stanley by land, sea and air, was stalemate for Argentine occupation and Falklands Liberation

British Armed Forces fought their way towards the capital of the Falkland Islands, Stanley, in a series of battles on the evening of 11 June 1982. The objective were the mounts Two Sisters and Harriet, securing the high ground next to Stanley facilitating the definitive surrender of the Argentine occupying force and Liberation of the Falklands
Friday, June 10th 2022 - 23:25 UTC
Sharp increase reported in Argentine intra-Mercosur exports

Argentina has recorded a sharp increase in intra-Mercosur exports, with trade reaching its highest figures in 7 years, it was reported in Buenos Aires. Intra-Mercosur trade during 2021 reached US$ 41 billion and achieved the highest value since 2014, while Argentine exports to the bloc exceeded US$ 14 billion, according to the CXXIII Meeting of the Common Market Group (GMC) in Asunción.
Friday, June 10th 2022 - 21:23 UTC
Maduro thanks Fernández for his speech in Los Angeles

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro Friday thanked Argentine President Alberto Fernández for his message at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, a gathering from which Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have been excluded by the hosting country.
Friday, June 10th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Not the Summit we would have wanted, Argentine President tells LA conference

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez Thursday delivered a controversial speech before the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, which was anything but pleasing and obliging to the hosting country.
Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:48 UTC
Resumption of Chile/Falklands air link, a “historic event”, says Argentine official Carmona

“A historic event” is how Guillermo Carmona, the Argentine Secretary for Malvinas, South Atlantic islands, and Antarctica affairs described the confirmed resumption of the weekly air link between Punta Arenas in Chile and the Falkland Islands, with a monthly stop over at Rio Gallegos in Santa Cruz province.
Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:40 UTC
OAS needs to stay away from coups, Argentine FM tells Summit

Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Wednesday told attendees at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles that the Organization of American States (OAS) must never again legitimize destabilization processes in the region.
Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:18 UTC
Two more bodies retrieved from doomed Bariloche hotel

Rescuers have found the bodies of the two Uruguayan tourists who had gone missing after a mudslide fell on a top-class hotel in Bariloche in the Argentine province of Río Negro, it was announced Wednesday, bringing the death toll up to 3 victims.
Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:37 UTC
One dead, at least 3 injured in Bariloche hotel mudslide

An avalanche of mud has left at least one person dead and three others injured Monday at the Villa Huinid Hotel on Bustillo Avenue, approximately three kilometers from downtown Bariloche, the famous Argentine mountain resort in the province of Río Negro.