Argentina

• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 12:59 UTC

  Macri's coalition suffers heavy defeat in Argentina's second most populous district

  

  The ruling coalition of Argentine president Mauricio Macri suffered a heavy defeat Sunday in elections held in Cordoba province, the country's second most populous district. Peronist governor Juan Schiaretti led comfortably after 94.2% of the vote had been counted, claiming 54% of ballots cast in his bid for re-election.

• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Argentine lawmaker shot in street incident on Friday died

  

  An Argentine lawmaker died on Sunday of gunshot wounds he suffered last week in a daylight attack outside the Congress building in Buenos Aires. The death of Hector Olivares, 61, was announced by his ruling party coalition, called Cambiemos.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  All members of a gun attack outside Congress in Buenos Aires arrested

  

  Two men were arrested on Friday on suspicion of murdering a civil servant and seriously injuring a lawmaker in Argentina, in a brazen crime in broad daylight. Marcelo Yadon was shot five times at close range as he walked in a square in front of the National Congress at 7 am on Thursday with his childhood friend and lawmaker Hector Olivares, who was in a critical condition and underwent emergency surgery.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Two Argentine pilots survive crash landing in Costa Rica's capital

  

  Two Argentine pilots survived when their light aircraft crash landed on Friday in a heavily populated area of the capital of Costa Rica, officials said. The pilots climbed out of the wreckage of the plane after it came down in the Pavas neighborhood of San Jose, in an area full of homes and schools, witnesses and officials said.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 08:31 UTC

  YPF focusing on shale oil to increase production growth

  

  YPF, the largest oil and natural gas producer in Argentina, is focusing on shale oil for production growth as a glut slows natural gas output, managers at the state-backed company said Friday.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine lawmaker wounded and aide killed in a shooting close to Congress

  

  An Argentine lawmaker was wounded on Thursday and an aide was killed in a shooting about a block from the National Congress in downtown Buenos Aires, in what the country's security minister described as a “mafia-style” attack.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Argentine explosive devices from the Falklands' war found and destroyed in the proximity of Stanley

  

  The Falkland Islands weekly Penguin News reported this week that elements of the Royal Falkland Islands Police, the Fire Service and the military were in action following the discovery of two unexploded munitions in separate locations around the capital Stanley.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Trump spoke to Macri to strongly support Argentina's economic reforms

  

  US President Donald Trump spoke with Argentina's leader Mauricio Macri on Wednesday and voiced support for the country's economic reforms, the White House said in a statement.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Argentina auto exporters will receive a 6.5% tax refund for sales to Mercosur

  

  Argentina will give its auto exporters a larger tax rebate to help stimulate the flagging local sector that has been hit hard by a consumption slump and economic crisis in Latin America’s No. 3 economy.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Cautious support from the Catholic Church to Macri's call for a national consensus to secure stability

  

  Argentina’s bishops have offered tentative backing to the country’s president in securing a national consensus on politically sensitive issues, in a move that could be construed as giving a boost to a conservative incumbent facing a stiff challenge from a former populist president with an ambivalent history with both the current pope and the local church he once led.