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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 15:32 UTC

Argentina

  • Friday, March 8th 2024 - 11:05 UTC

    Milei threatens to pee on all of Argentina's governors and shut down Congress

    Milei's “Who do they think they are?” might enrage governors worse than they already were

    Argentine President Javier Milei was quoted as saying during a private event at the ExpoAgro rural fair in San Nicolás de los Arroyos late Wednesday that he would “piss on all” of Argentina's provincial governors who were reluctant to endorse the reforms the Libertarian government seeks to impose.

  • Friday, March 8th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

    Argentina: Libertarian gov't wants wage hike for lawmakers reversed

    Menem will seek to have the wage increase repealed as per Milei's instructions

    Argentina's Lower House Speaker Martin Menem admitted Thursday that a bill was to be submitted to backtrack on the resolution granting wage increases of nearly 30% to lawmakers amid strict austerity measures affecting most of the country's population, particularly the more vulnerable.

  • Thursday, March 7th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

    Ambassador says linking Rosario to Uruguay should be a state policy

    Enciso spoke of a “moment of optimism regarding the business environment in both countries”

    Uruguay's Ambassador to Buenos Aires Carlos Enciso Christiansen insisted it was necessary to promote a state policy to improve connectivity between his country and the Argentine city of Rosario. He made those remarks en route to the ExpoAgro event in nearby San Nicolás.

  • Thursday, March 7th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Two schoolchildren faint as Milei gives a speech

    Speaking about Communism always brings on problems, the president joked as two students fainted during his appearance at the Catholic school he and his sister attended

    Two students fainted Wednesday in Buenos Aires as Argentine President Javier Milei inaugurated the school year at the Cardenal Copello Catholic school in Buenos Aires, which he attended with his sister and current presidential secretary, Karina.

  • Thursday, March 7th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Argentine lawmakers from the “political caste” get wage increase

    Martín Menem hired his nephew as his personal assistant

    Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel as head of the Senate and Lower House Speaker Martín Menem agreed to increase the wages of lawmakers by nearly 30% effective from January 1, it was reported Wednesday in Buenos Aires.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina: Milei pledges to lower taxes soon

    Milei also pointed out that State expenditures were cut down 30% in January and another 36% last month

    Argentine President Javier Milei said Tuesday at the Expoagro 2024 rural event in the city of San Nicolás in the province of Buenos Aires that “by improving the fiscal numbers, the door would be opened for us to start lowering taxes.”

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

    Argentina shuts down Telam news service

    Press guilds dubbed the government's decision an attack against freedom of expression

    Argentina's state-run news service Télam came to an end Monday when 700 of its workers received emails telling them they should not show up for work because they had been placed on leave while the outlet's website shows a sign reading it is “under reconstruction.” President Javier Milei had announced on March 1 that one of his spending cuts would involve closing what he dubbed “a nest of Kirchnerite propaganda.”

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2024 - 02:08 UTC

    Argentina leads in complying with EU deforestation legislation

    Argentine exporters have shipped 46,000 tons of soybean meal from over 570 production units

    Deforestation-free soybeans to the European Union, guess who is taking the lead? Believe it or not Argentina have sent three soy-meal shipments via the Visec platform, each with fully traceable data. By the second semester, the entire soybean chain in the country will utilize the platform making Argentina the first country to fully comply with deforestation legislation implemented by the European Parliament.

  • Monday, March 4th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

    Argentina and Brazil “blocking” Mercosur's progress, Uruguayan President says

    It was Lacalle's last March 2 message to Parliament as head of state

    President Luis Lacalle Pou told his country's Parliament Saturday that Uruguay needed to open up to the world. In his last accountability for the year speech as head of state before Parliament, he also singled out Argentina and Brazil for “blocking” Mercosur agreements and insisted on the importance of achieving fiscal goals, low inflation, employment growth, educational transformation, and making the regional bloc more flexible.

  • Monday, March 4th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    Milei's policies leave almost no Urguayans shopping across the border

    Prices in Argentina are no longer that attractive to Uruguayan consumers who used to cross the bridge between Fray Bentos and Gualeguaychú to do their shopping

    Business owners in the city of Gualeguaychú in the Argentine province of Entre Ríos are foreseeing increasing losses after the latest economic measures by President Javier Milei's administration have resulted in fewer Uruguayans crossing the border to do their shopping as prices are no longer considerably lower.