Argentina

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentina's inflation 54.7% in 12-months; more monetary “contraction measures” and support from IMF

  

  Argentina's inflation rate accelerated for the third straight month in March, the government statistics agency said on Tuesday, prompting the central bank to unveil fresh measures to temper raging inflation and protect the embattled peso currency.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Qatar Petroleum wins five offshore blocks in Argentina's South Atlantic basins

  

  Qatar Petroleum (QP) has won exploration rights in five offshore blocks in the North Argentina, and Malvinas West basins in Argentina. The winning bids were announced on Tuesday by Argentina’s Secretariat of Government of Energy (“SGE”) at the end of a public tender process that started in November 2018.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Argentina begins IMF approved daily auction of US$ 60m to recover Pesos

  

  Argentina sold US$ 60 million in the foreign exchange market on Monday, traders said, marking the start of peso-buying program approved by the International Monetary Fund and aimed at bolstering government finances.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  Mothers of Mayo impede an official audit of their assets as part of a bankruptcy inquiry

  

  The group of mothers of people who disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship sent a government official packing on Monday after he tried to conduct an audit of their assets as part of a bankruptcy investigation.

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Declassified U.S. Documents Reveal Details About Argentina’s Dictatorship

  

  The assassination squad created by Argentina’s military dictatorship to target dissidents during the 1970s had, like other state programs, its own bureaucratic rules: Employees punched in at 9:30 a.m. and were entitled to a two-hour lunch. They received a US$ 1,000 clothing allowance during their first overseas mission. And they were required to submit expense reports.

• Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentina issues diplomatic credentials to Guaidó's representative and withdraws from Unasur

  

  Argentina reiterated its support for Venezuela’s opposition leader Friday by issuing diplomatic credentials to a new delegate and officially announcing its withdrawal from the regional UNASUR bloc, which has been criticized over its lack of action on Venezuela.

• Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 07:40 UTC

  US hands Argentina thousands of declassified documents from the military dictatorship

  

  The United States handed thousands of documents on Friday to Argentina on disappearances by the military dictatorship (1976/1983), completing Washington's biggest-ever transfer of documents to another government.

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 21:17 UTC

  Tourists are cashing in on Argentina’s economic woes

  

  International travelers are flocking to Argentina, taking advantage of the poorly performing peso to boost the value of their holiday spending money, according to latest data.

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  IMF: “foolish” for Argentine presidential candidates to abandon the program

  

  Argentina’s economic reform program is beginning to show results, so it would “foolish” for presidential candidates to abandon the program, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said Thursday.

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Falklands' court fines Argentine lawyer for attempting to export live round as “historic souvenir”

  

  Daniel Sebastian Ujhelly, an Argentine lawyer who had come to the Falkland Islands to take part in the Stanley Marathon was fined £650 in the Summary Court on Friday and ordered to pay £150 prosecution costs, after having pleaded guilty to an offence under the Fire Arms and Ammunition Ordinance 1987, reports this week's edition of the Penguin News.