Argentina

Sunday, October 28th 2018 - 19:25 UTC
Argentina seeks extension on due Bolivian gas bills

Argentina's cooking gas company Integración Energética Argentina S.A. (formerly Enarsa) has asked Bolivia's Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) for an extension to pay up the bills for the past two months plus interests due since 2007, it was reported.
Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 09:38 UTC
IMF completes review of Argentina's stand-by loan; Lagarde praises performance

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed on Friday the first review of Argentina’s economic performance under the 36-month Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) that was approved on June 20, 2018.
Friday, October 26th 2018 - 19:25 UTC
Search for ARA San Juan deemed “useless” will go on after pressure from Argentine Navy

Ocean Infinity, the US company searching the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, revised its decision to halt operations deemed “useless” until February and resumed work to comply with the minimum 60-day task agreed upon, it was reported.
Friday, October 26th 2018 - 09:51 UTC
Higher taxes ahead for Argentine real estate owners

Argentine President Mauricio Macri has created a new body within his administration to reassess the value of land and home property in order to “reflect the reality of the real estate market” ... and recalculate taxation thereupon.
Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:48 UTC
Falklands: Brexit and Argentina's plan for closer links with the Islands

Brexit brings a chance to strengthen ties between Argentina and the Falkland Islands, the country's foreign minister Jorge Faurie said in London. Faurie met with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the pair discussed increasing trade and travel links between the Falkland Islands and South America.
Friday, October 26th 2018 - 07:38 UTC
Argentina expects final approval of 2019 budget by mid November

Lawmakers in Argentina’s lower house of Congress approved on early morning Thursday an unpopular austerity budget designed to meet the stiff requirements of a US$57.1 billion International Monetary Fund bailout.
Friday, October 26th 2018 - 00:48 UTC
Dujovne foresees Argentina's October inflation “will be bad”

Argentina's Finance Minister Nicolás Dujovne Tuesday admitted October's inflation “will be bad” due to the September carryover. But he expected “a clear drop” for November.
Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 21:31 UTC
Faurie in London: “Argentina is building institutions”

Argentina’s Foreign Minister spoke at a conference in Chatham House about the political and economic changes happening in Latin America.
Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 07:17 UTC
Argentine government disappointed with Pope Francis involvement in local politics

Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich has criticized Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, saying he has not “taken the necessary distance from Argentine politics.”
Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 07:08 UTC
Falklands' family will host an Argentine student of International Relations

Nicolás Aguiar, a 24-year International Relations student at the University of Rosario in central Argentina will be spending a week next February in the Falkland Islands, with a local family, following his successful video presentation replying to the competition question, “Why I would like to meet my neighbors in the Falkland Islands?”