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Argentina

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    Argentina: Breakup among Libertarian lawmakers imminent

    Arrieta said Martín Menem called her “a little whore”

    Libertarian Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta, who gained notoriety for claiming she did not know who the people she visited with a group of fellow lawmakers at the Ezeiza penitentiary because she had been born in 1993, keeps undermining whichever unity President Javier Milei's Parliamentarians might have left by denouncing House Speaker Martín Menem for allegedly labeling the female deputies of his bloc as ”whores.

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 23:13 UTC

    The Economist: Javier Milei's military splurge; many Argentines are asking why

    On 9th July, Argentina's national day president Milei was invited to the lead tank of the grand parade downtown Buenos Aires

    Self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalists ought to be skeptical of large standing armies. President Javier Milei of Argentina seems to relish them. Even as he tightens the government purse, he has committed to raising defense spending from 0.5% of gdp to 2% over the next eight years. He vows to “restore the prestige” of the army and transform it into a hi-tech force.

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 09:49 UTC

    US Embassy in Buenos Aires issues “black widow” travel alert

    Tourists were also suggested to trust their instincts and not hesitate to walk away from any awkward situation

    The United States Embassy in Buenos Aires Thursday issued an alert to American travelers willing to visit the Argentine capital given an increase in cases of “black widows,” women who drug their occasional partners to steal their belongings, particularly at bars and among users of dating apps.

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 09:28 UTC

    Fire at Argentine oil refinery contained in time

    First aid responders were summoned from the PNA and the municipalities of Ensenada and Berisso

    A tank at the Ingeniero Enrique Mosconi Refinery Industrial Complex in the city of Ensenada -south of Buenos Aires and east of La Plata- belonging to Argentina's State-run oil company YPF caught fire Thursday at around 4.30 pm. The high smoke clouds polluted a vast part of the densely populated area but no victims were mentioned in the preliminary report.

  • Thursday, August 22nd 2024 - 08:46 UTC

    Sailor tests negative for mpox but positive for chickenpox in Argentina

    A diagnosis of mpox cannot be made just out of looks, the WHO admitted

    Authorities in the Argentine province of Santa Fe confirmed Wednesday that the crew member of the INA LOTTE cereal freighter ship with symptoms compatible with monkeypox tested negative for the malady the World Health Organization declared last week to be a PHEIC (public health emergency of international concern). However, the man did have chickenpox.

  • Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Freighter isolated off Argentine port due to suspected mpox case

    he Liberian-flagged INA-LOTTE was isolated pending a decision from sanitary border experts

    A Liberian-flagged cereal freighter was isolated off the Argentine port of San Lorenzo, north of Rosario on the Parana River, after a crewmember was reported to have monkeypox symptoms. The vessel stemmed from Spain.

  • Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 09:41 UTC

    Jones Huala must leave Chile at the earliest

    Jones Huala first needs to recover from a 50-day hunger strike

    Argentine-born Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala must leave Chile as soon as he is discharged from the hospital where he was admitted after going on a hunger strike for 50 days to demand his freedom which the Supreme Court granted last week, the authorities in Santiago ruled last Friday.

  • Tuesday, August 20th 2024 - 08:58 UTC

    Argentine port terminal granted carbon-neutral certification

    TecPlata's goal was to turn its terminal into an engine of positive and sustainable growth

    The TecPlata terminal in the Argentine port of La Plata has been granted a carbon-neutral certification, making it the first in the country to achieve such a feat, thus confirming the company's global sustainability strategy. The new status means offsetting the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by an activity so that the balance is zero.

  • Tuesday, August 20th 2024 - 08:53 UTC

    Mercosur's beef production up; Argentina's output and consumption down

    In addition, Argentina's beef exports went up as local consumers cannot afford the retail prices

    Cattle slaughtering within the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) in the first seven months of this year reached nearly 27 million head, which represented a 2.05 million increase from the same period of 2023 as well as an all-time high.

  • Monday, August 19th 2024 - 23:07 UTC

    New shipment of Argentine gold abroad reported

    It was the third such shipment under President Milei

    A video of an armored truck carrying some 1500 gold bars from Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) to the Ezeiza International Airport went viral Monday as the third such shipment -worth around US$ 250 million- was presumed to have left for London, it was reported in Buenos Aires. No special security was seen around the vehicle on the highway leading to the air terminal.