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Montevideo, December 16th 2025 - 15:40 UTC

Argentina

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 14:34 UTC

    Argentina: Irregularities detected in key waterway concession process

    The government of Javier Milei launched the bidding process in November 2024

    Argentina's Administrative Investigations Prosecutor’s Office (PIA) has identified “serious irregularities” in the bidding process for the concession of the Paraná-Paraguay waterway, a crucial trade corridor for the region. The waterway is essential for exporting agricultural products from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay to the Atlantic.

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Argentina to create unified Federal Emergency Agency

    With 12 relief agencies overlapping efforts, they make a disaster, Bullrich explained

    The Argentine Government announced Tuesday the creation of a Federal Emergency Agency to coordinate relief against major disasters such as fires and floods. There are 12 State structures overlapping in cases of emergencies, which “generates disorder,” explained Security Minister Patricia Bullrich from El Bolsón, where she was overseeing the wildfire fighting efforts alongside Defense Minister Luis Petri.

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 08:54 UTC

    US dollar not lagging, says Caputo

    “With Javier Milei we have the best relationship that an Economy Minister has ever had with a President,” Caputo said

    Argentina's Economy Minister Luis 'Toto' Caputo insisted Tuesday that the US dollar was not lagging against the peso and also mentioned that a new deal with the Monetary Fund (IMF) was just details away from being finalized. He made those remarks and negative results hit the local stock markets, and the country-risk index regained its upward trend following President Javier Milei's statements that a devaluation was not in sight and that the government did not intend to modify the current pensions law.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 09:48 UTC

    Milei cries foul play in live TV interview

    Also Monday, Milei replaced the official at the helm of the ANSES Pensions Bureau

    Argentine President Javier Milei said his interview with the local TV station A24 was sabotaged. “They tried to replicate the tricks of the 2023 campaign,” argued the wary head of state, who also sacked Argentina's Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) after her father contended that the current exchange rate between the peso and the US dollar was 20% behind. The Libertarian leader said those remarks were “shameful and stupid.”

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 09:45 UTC

    Argentine gov't to privatize major cargo railway line

    Belgrano Cargas is oversized and overstaffed, Adorni explained

    Argentine President Javier Milei has signed the decree ordering the key cargo railway Belgrano Cargas y Logística S.A. line privatized, Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni confirmed. “President Javier Milei has just signed the decree that initiates the process of total privatization of the Belgrano Cargas y Logística S.A. company,” he wrote on social media. The Argentine State “will cease to be the operator of the cargo railway services and all its infrastructure: rolling stock, tracks, workshops, and real estate,” Adorni also noted.

  • Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 10:52 UTC

    Argentine judge rules travel agency should not advertise Malvinas as UK destination

    Judge Cánepa ruled that advertising the United Kingdom as the country of destination when traveling to the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands was misleading

    Judge Guillermo Patricio Cánepa of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) ruled this week that Cruiseline S.R.L. should not mislead potential customers by advertising cruise services to the United Kingdom's “Islas Malvinas.” The magistrate ordered the company to pull its advertising campaign in that regard and recognize Argentina's sovereignty over the archipelago.

  • Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentina: Lower House gives thumbs down to open primaries

    The PASO elections were created in 2009 under CFK and held for the first time in 2011

    Argentina's Lower House approved this week by 162 votes in favor, 55 against, and 28 abstentions, the elimination of the so-called Mandatory, Simultaneous, and Open Primary (PASO) Elections whereby the country's constituencies chose each party's candidates. The measure proposed by the ruling La Libertad Avanza (LLA) of President Javier Milei now needs to be passed by the Senate before it can be implemented in this year's mid-terms.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 12:47 UTC

    Barenboim admits he has Parkinson's Disease

    Barenboim has been a long-time promoter of dialogue between Israel and the Arab world

    Argentine-born conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, KBE, confirmed that he has Parkinson's Disease but nevertheless intends to “maintain as many musical engagements as possible.”

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 09:04 UTC

    Argentina: BCRA REM report foresees 2.3% CPI in January

    The latest REM report showed a slight improvement from its previous issue's projections

    Argentine Central Bank's (BCRA) monthly Market Expectations Outlook (REM) released Thursday foresaw January's Consumer Price Index (CPI) would stand at 2.3%. Back in December 2024, the REM expected it to be 2.5%.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 08:32 UTC

    Covid 19: Milei wants WHO Chief tried for human rights violations

    “We will never forget” what the WHO under Tedros did, Milei warned

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced Thursday that he intends to hold World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accountable “for crimes against humanity” given the measures recommended and adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, the South American country left the WHO, thus following in on US President Donald Trump's steps.