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Montevideo, November 21st 2025 - 07:36 UTC

Argentina

  • Tuesday, August 2nd 2016 - 06:07 UTC

    China's leading role in Argentina reviewed and confirmed by Macri

    Argentina’s diplomatic relations with China were upgraded to “strategic integral alliance” status in the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration

    China’s role in Argentina’s foreign relations will be more balanced than during the Kirchner administrations, with a larger role played instead by the United States and European countries, the country’s ambassador to Beijing Diego Guelar said, claiming Chinese investment will have to be more competitive.

  • Monday, August 1st 2016 - 12:58 UTC

    Argentina and Mexico pledge to reach “absolute integration and free trade”

    Following a one hour private meeting the two presidents held a media conference and underlined the importance of “strengthening the ties” between the countries.

    Argentina and Mexico agree on the need to reach absolute integration and free trade, as part of the closer bilateral relations confirmed with the visit to Buenos Aires of Mexican head of state Enrique Peña Nieto.

  • Saturday, July 30th 2016 - 07:17 UTC

    Del Potro carries his memories of London's bronze into Rio

    Juan Martín del Potro during a press conference on Friday in Buenos Aires. “You never know hoy many Olympic Games you will get to play”

    In his comeback year, the Argentine tennis star wants to relive the unique Olympic experience, but is aware that this time around he is not in his best form. A tale that started in London 2012, took two breaks to undergo wrist surgery, recharged batteries at Wimbledon less than a month ago, picked up some bonus energy in Italy, now goes to Rio and then back to Britain.

  • Saturday, July 30th 2016 - 05:39 UTC

    Mercosur limbo: Uruguay's presidency is over, who will hold the rotating chair ?

    Last Wednesday Uruguayan foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa cancelled a meeting of the Common Market Council scheduled for this Saturday

    Uruguay made public on Friday a letter sent to Mercosur fellow full members stating the finalization, this Saturday 30 July, of its six-month presidency of the group, which means the rotating chair “should be transferred to Venezuela”. The letter was accompanied by a 32 page report of its six-month as chair of the group, particularly intense because of the trade negotiations with the European Union.

  • Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 11:36 UTC

    Ushuaia plans to expand main port pier 251 meters and improve facilities

    Tierra del Fuego governor Rosana Bertone made the presentation of the project at Government House in Ushuaia

    Ushuaia, the world's most extreme south city and the gateway for Antarctica cruise tours is planning to upgrade its port facilities including the expansion of the main pier by 251 meters increasing the docking capacity for tourism vessels during the summer season.

  • Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 06:19 UTC

    Falklands and bilateral agenda addressed by UK top official in Argentina

    The situation of forensic actions for the identification of Argentine combatants fallen who are buried in the Darwin cemetery, was also addressed in the meeting.

    The recently appointed UK Foreign Office Permanent Under Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service Sir Simon McDonald was received this week at the Argentine foreign ministry where he met with Deputy minister Carlos Foradori, and one of the several issues addressed was the forensic actions to help identify Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin cemetery, according to a release from Palacio San Martin.

  • Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 15:14 UTC

    Argentina and Brazil celebrate 25th anniversary of accord which buried nuclear rivalry

    ABACC, was the result of the nuclear energy peaceful use accord, signed by then presidents Carlos Menem and Fernando Collor, in Guadalajara, Mexico.

    Argentina and Brazil commemorated on 18 July the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Material, ABACC, which was the result of the nuclear energy exclusive peaceful use accord, signed by then presidents Carlos Menem and Fernando Collor, in Guadalajara, Mexico.

  • Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 13:34 UTC

    Argentina planning tourist air tours of Antarctica beginning 2018

    The flights with LADE aircraft are scheduled to land in the Antarctic Marambio base

    Argentina plans to organize tourist air tours to Antarctica beginning 2018, with the government's airline, LADE, according to official sources from the Tourism and Defense ministries.

  • Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 12:57 UTC

    Wet weather conditions Argentine wheat crop; 2016/17 corn area expected to expand

    Argentine farmers had been expected to ramp up wheat output to the highest in five years in 2016-17, and lifting export prospects

    Hopes for a revival in Argentina’s wheat production are falling, even as ideas for corn growing continue to mount, in part at the expense of soybeans, for which seed availability has emerged as an issue. Argentina’s wheat production will increase in 2016-17, but not by as much as had been thought, the US Department of Agriculture bureau in Buenos Aires said, cutting to 13.7m tons their harvest forecast.

  • Tuesday, July 26th 2016 - 17:37 UTC

    Mothers breastfeed openly in public places across Argentina to claim rights

    Unicef joined the debate recalling breastfeeding is a fundamental right and that the “state, health teams, family and community must defend breastfeeding.”

    Thousands of women across Argentina on Sunday gathered at landmarks and public squares to breastfeed their children in solidarity with a San Isidro woman who was reprimanded by local police and threatened with resisting authority for doing just that even though breastfeeding in public is legal.