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Montevideo, February 4th 2026 - 20:28 UTC

Argentina

  • Monday, November 26th 2018 - 21:39 UTC

    Dollar climbs in Argentina as Macri worries about football violence

    Macri was publicly addressing the issue of football violence flanked by Ministers Patricia Bullrich and Germán Garavano while the US dollar was going up against the Argentine peso.

    Buenos Aires was still shaking around noon Monday from the weekend's Libertadores Cup fiasco. President Mauricio Macri was publicly addressing the issue for the first time at a press conference escorted by Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Justice Minister Germán Garavano. And with the spotlight there, the US dollar crept back up against the Argentine peso after a two-month nadir, closing at AR$ 39.9 per 1 US dollar at the end of the business day.

  • Monday, November 26th 2018 - 16:38 UTC

    Hard times ahead for Argentina's Banco Nación president

    Bank directors and employees alike turn their backs on González Fraga

    Argentina's state-run Banco Nación President Javier González Fraga admitted borrowing from abroad is a possibility to face the current liquidity shortage, it was reported.

  • Monday, November 26th 2018 - 10:39 UTC

    Argentina targets a strong global stability message at the G20 leaders' summit

    Argentina is hoping to find agreement on improving global stability, even if deep disagreements remain, foreign minister Jorge Faurie said

    With international tensions on trade set to come to a head at the Group of 20 Leaders Summit next weekend, Argentina is hoping to find agreement on improving global stability, even if deep disagreements remain. Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie said the November 30-December 1 meeting in Buenos Aires should stress the importance of trade itself, at a time that the former consensus against protectionism breaks down.

  • Monday, November 26th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

    South America's suspended super derby match date to be announced on Tuesday

    A meeting of CONMEBOL officials will be held in Asunción, Paraguay, on Tuesday morning to decide what happens next, Alejandro Dominguez said

    The Copa Libertadores Superclásico (super derby) final between Argentina's biggest clubs, Boca Juniors and River Plate, has been suspended, CONMEBOL has announced. The regional governing body said on Sunday that the second leg of the already postponed final will be rescheduled, after violent scenes on Saturday ended with Boca's team bus being attacked by River fans.

  • Monday, November 26th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas air link and Cordoba stop over underlines “the historic reconciliation of UK and Argentina”

    Faurie said Theresa May will become the first sitting prime minister to visit Buenos Aires since the 1982 conflict and important announcements can be expected

    Argentina's foreign minister Jorge Faurie said that this week's G20 leaders' summit in Buenos Aires not only will it be historic since for the first time a meeting of such significance is taking place in South America, but also because of the symbolic reconciliation and constructive attitude between Argentina and the United Kingdom referred to the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

  • Sunday, November 25th 2018 - 19:27 UTC

    New attempt to play River-Boca final ends in yet another postponement

    Buenos Aires Mayor Rodríguez Larreta linked the incidents to his government's anti barrabrava maffias fight.

    The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) Sunday finally acquiesced to a petition filed by Boca Juniors, whose players were unfit to compete, and agreed to postpone the second leg of the Libertadores Cup final against River Plate.

  • Sunday, November 25th 2018 - 14:29 UTC

    Argentine football hooligans bring shame to their country days before G-20 Summit

    Left: The Boca Juniors bus under attack from hooligans. Right: Boca's Pablo Pérez as he returned to the stadium from the clinic released the picture on social media.

    River Plate hooligans attacked the bus carrying the Boca Juniors players to the Monumental stadium Saturday afternoon for the second leg of the Libertadores Cup final, causing injuries to some of them, which resulted in the suspension of the game and its eventual rescheduling for Sunday at 5 pm local time.

  • Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 14:37 UTC

    The only real “Summit” in Buenos Aires is hours away

    One half of Argentines will have won the battle of all battles, the derby of all derbies and the other will bite the dust of defeat.

    Fake bomb threats, loose World War II grenades, actual explosions that kill nobody and leave one perpetrator seriously injured at a cemetery, the mayor's entourage becoming 35 percent wealthier on average since in office, airline strikes, and the looming G20 Summit with the most prominent world leaders all in one place, an air traffic ban in addition to land circulation restrictions are just a part of the landscape to the people of Buenos Aires who are becoming more and more used to living in a war-like zone since the beginning of the century.

  • Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 13:14 UTC

    Argentine printing company lands at Colonia's free trade zone

    «Our idea is that the plant in Uruguay will boost that of Argentina,” Socin explained.

    The Arcángel Maggio printing company has announced plans to invest US $ 6 million to produce school books and novels for the Spanish-speaking market (except Uruguay) from Colonia's free-trade zone in a 4,000 square meter plant due to start operating in February, 2019.

  • Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

    Prudent optimism that China and US can reach a trade understanding in Buenos Aires

    Tensions between the two biggest economies will come to a head when Donald Trump and Xi Jingping meet on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Argentina.

    The United States and China have in the coming week what may be their last chance to broker a ceasefire in an increasingly dangerous trade war when their presidents meet in Buenos Aires.