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Montevideo, October 20th 2025 - 04:57 UTC

Argentina

  • Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 22:29 UTC

    Argentina now reportedly redlights RRS James Cook mission

    The Foreign Ministry's reported decision had negative repercussions within the Libertarian government of President Javier Milei

    Argentina's Foreign Ministry has been reported to have backtracked on the clearance previously given to the RRS James Cook to perform a scientific mission in the Argentine Sea. According to Buenos Aires' Clarín, Deputy Foreign Minister Eduardo Bustamante gave the order.

  • Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 20:54 UTC

    Trump picks successful Fla. physician for BA Embassy

    The Cuba-born Lamelas has been full of praise for Argentine President Milei

    US President-elect Donald J. Trump chose Peter Lamelas for the position of Ambassador in Buenos Aires during his administration to be inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025. The Cuban-born physician has already met President Javier Milei.

  • Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

    Football: 2030 World Cup opening game to be played in Montevideo

    “Football is what unites the world,” Infantino stressed

    World football's governing body FIFA confirmed Wednesday that the opening game of the 2030 World Cup will be played at Montevideo's Centenario Stadium, which also hosted the 1930 edition that launched the series of one of the most successful events in contemporary history.

  • Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 09:34 UTC

    CFK becomes Justicialist Party Chairwoman

    Argentina should never sign an FTA with th US, CFK insisted

    Former Argentine President (2007-2015) Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) Wednesday became chairwoman of the Justicialist (Peronist) Party. In her speech, she called for the formation of political and technical cadres to be part of a national project for the great majorities.

  • Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 09:23 UTC

    Argentina's Indec says inflation in November stood at 2.4%

    “Inflation in Argentina RIP,” said Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni

    Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI) went up 2.4% in November for a 166% year-on-year, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) announced Wednesday in Buenos Aires. It was the lowest figure since July 2020 when it reached 1.9%. The Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei welcomed the news: “Inflation in Argentina RIP,” said Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni.

  • Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei reviews his first year in office

    Milei said his reform of the State is much stronger than the one under Carlos Menem in the 1990s

    Argentine President Javier Milei reviewed his first year in office, during which he did manage to slow down inflation, albeit at a cost. “I want to thank the ordinary Argentines who were treated as second-class citizens for decades,” he said during his broadcast message.

  • Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Argentine gov't repeals ancestral land ownership claims in Patagonia

    The previous measures prevented “the free exercise of productive and recreational activities on the lands involved,” Milei's Decree underlined

    Indigenous communities in Argentine Patagonia voiced their rejection of the Federal Government's Decree 1083/2024 signed Tuesday repealing the territorial emergency in the region which entitled them to claim ancestral land ownership. “It will bring consequences that everyone will regret,” a Mapuche group warned.

  • Tuesday, December 10th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Peronist/Kirchnerist leaders discuss unity ahead of next year's mid-terms

    Milei needs to be stopped, the leaders agreed

    Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof and Congressman Máximo Kirchner got together with former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and former Presidential hopeful Sergio Massa at a residence in Moreno on the outskirts of the country's capital to discuss the future of Peronism / Kirchnerism vis a vis the 2025 mid-term elections. It was their first photo together after the electoral defeat against Javier Milei in 2023.

  • Monday, December 9th 2024 - 22:08 UTC

    Argentine PNA to patrol Bolivia-bordering river

    “We have also come to this area to say enough,” Bullrich insisted

    Argentine authorities have taken steps towards patrolling the Bolivia-bordering Bermejo River with Coast Guard (Prefectura Naval Argentina - PNA) units so as not to leave the neighboring country as the only one with an armed presence in the area, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich announced.

  • Monday, December 9th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Buenos Aires renews concern over asylum seekers in Caracas

    Buenos Aires launched an appeal to the UN and the OAS to take action in favor of the asylum seekers

    Argentine authorities expressed their concern this weekend over the well-being of the six Venezuelan opposition asylum seekers who are housed at what used to be Buenos Aires' Embassy in Caracas and is now guarded by Brazil following the diplomatic breakup.