Argentina

• Friday, May 18th 2018 - 07:49 UTC

  IMF confirms support for Macri, but also with greater focus on social protection

  

  The International Monetary Fund will move quickly to agree on a loan program to support Argentina but there are no details yet on what it will entail, a fund spokesman said on Thursday. However spokesperson Gerry Rice also underlined that the IMF nowadays has a greater focus on social protection, in particular towards the most vulnerable, ensuring the economy and living standards.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 10:38 UTC

  “Gauchos in Malvinas”, part of Falklands' history is a collection of watercolors

  

  “Gauchos in Malvinas” is the title of the book launched at the recent Buenos Aires Book show which is mainly a collection of water colors by William Dale, painted in 1852 when he spent time in the Falkland Islands. He was the son of John Pownall Dale, at the time General Manager of the Falkland Islands Company, and his paintings are considered a unique and only testimony of the gauchos in the Falklands.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  The dollar falls in Argentina while in Uruguay the rise “does not worry”

  

  The recent rise of the dollar in Argentina had some impact in Uruguay, where it has an accumulation of 7.4% in May. However, for the president of the Central Bank of Uruguay, Mario Bergara, the escalation only owes 20% to the exchange rate in Argentina and rather considers that Uruguay is accompanying global trends.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  World Cup advice for Argentine media: “How to stand a chance with a Russian girl”

  

  The Argentine Football Association (AFA) has been criticized for including a chapter about “how to stand a chance with a Russian girl” in a manual it handed to journalists travelling to the World Cup in Russia. It recommended that journalists “look clean, smell nice and dress well” in order to impress Russian “girls”.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 08:20 UTC

  Argentine Prosecution orders the arrest of 26 officers for alleged torture against conscripts in the Falklands

  

  The Federal Prosecution Office from Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego has called for the arrest of 26 officers allegedly involved in torture practices against conscripts during the Falklands conflict in 1982. The case has been ongoing for over a decade but it remains at snail pace.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 19:20 UTC

  Falklands describes as 'positive', the outcome of fishery talks held in Argentina

  

  The Falkland Islands has been positive about the outcome of the first round of fishery talks (May 14/15) referred to the South Atlantic, between Argentina and the United Kingdom. The talks in Buenos Aires, with Falklands representatives included in the UK delegation, emphasized on the exchange of scientific information and conservation of shared fishery resources in the South West Atlantic.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Argentina/UK agree to continue fisheries conservation talks in London next November

  

  Following a two-day meeting in Buenos Aires of the Fisheries South West Atlantic Commission Scientific Sub-Committee, Argentina and the UK agreed to hold a new round of talks in London next November, according to a release from the Argentine foreign ministry.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  Argentina seems to have managed Tuesday's challenge, but what comes next?

  

  Argentina’s central bank on Tuesday rolled over billions of dollars in short-term debt, providing President Mauricio Macri’s government with a shot of confidence after weeks of economic volatility. In a statement, the Argentine central bank said it refinanced all of the US$ 26 billion of peso-denominated short term bonds that matured on Tuesday. Investors were attracted by renewal rates of 40% for 36-day Lebac and 38% and 38,5% for 90 days and plus, Lebacs.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 08:22 UTC

  Boris Johnson expected in Argentina; homage to Falklands/Malvinas conflict fallen in the agenda?

  

  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is expected next week in Argentina for a G20 ministerial meeting and, according to Buenos Aires media, normally well informed, he is scheduled to attend a homage to the fallen in the South Atlantic conflict. This would take place in the framework of the new constructive positive turn for Argentine/UK bilateral relations, which includes cooperation in several fields.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 06:40 UTC

  “Falklands want a normal, friendly relationship with all its neighbors, but...”

  

  ”We would be delighted to have a normal, friendly relationship with all our neighbors, to freely trade with, work with and discuss things of mutual benefit” said Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Roger Edwards at the UN Decolonization 2018 Pacific Regional Seminar held in Grenada last week. But, he added, “instead, we are not recognized or accepted as a people in our own right”, by Argentina.