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  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 09:16 UTC

    Israeli soldier vacationing in Brazil flees to Argentina to avoid arrest for Gaza war crimes

    The evacuation was said to have been performed on a commercial flight to Argentina

    An Israeli national who was vacationing in Brazil had to flee in a rush to Argentina to avoid being prosecuted there for alleged war crimes committed while deployed in Gaza as a member of the Kfir Brigade.

  • Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 16:34 UTC

    Milei welcomes González Urrutia at Casa Rosada

    After meeting with Milei, González Urrutia is due in Montevideo later Saturday for an encounter with President Luis Lacalle Pou

    Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, whom many regard as the truthful winner of the July 28 elections in his country, was welcomed Saturday by Argentine President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada. He made Buenos Aires the first stop of his tour ahead of what he has announced will be his inauguration on Jan. 10 in Caracas despite Nicolás Maduro's regime planning otherwise and offering a US$100,000 reward for his head.

  • Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 11:56 UTC

    The challenge for Edmundo González, touring Argentina and Uruguay: can he avoid a new Guaidó scenario?

    After Jan 10th, what happens in Caracas may be key for the region's future.

    Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia visits Montevideo this Saturday as part of a regional tour aimed at obtaining international backing to assume the Presidency of Venezuela next January 10, after declaring himself the winner of last July's elections, according to the voting tallies collected by the opposition. During his stay, he will meet with President Luis Lacalle Pou and Foreign Minister Omar Paganini, who reiterated Uruguay's support to the legitimacy of his electoral triumph.

  • Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 11:06 UTC

    Argentina: Footwear manufacturing plant shutdown represents 360 layoffs

    In 2024, the Brazilian Grupo Dass manufactured 7.8 million pairs in Argentina

    Argentina's chainsaw policies with a US dollar so low that everything is expensive nationwide are beginning to take its toll on the local industry: The Grupo Dass sports footwear manufacturing plant in Coronel Suarez, in the province of Buenos Aires, has been closed down - it used to manufacture articles for the brands Adidas, Nike, and Fila.

  • Friday, January 3rd 2025 - 10:40 UTC

    Milei and González Urrutia to meet at Casa Rosada

    González Urrutia will be on tour ahead of the Jan. 10 inaugurationic (GETTY IMAGES)

    President Javier Milei will be meeting Saturday in Casa Rosada with Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, who has been recognized by many countries -including Argentina- as the legitimate winner of the controversial July 28 elections where the incumbent Nicolás Maduro was announced as victor for a new term starting on Jan. 10.

  • Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Venezuelan FM speaks the worst about his Argentine colleague

    Werthein was included as a person of interest in the investigation into Nahuel Gallo's arrest by Caracas on espionage charges

    Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil told his Argentine colleague Gerardo Werthein on social media he had “no morals to talk about Venezuela” and insisted that the latter's true legacy lay “in the fortunes amassed in the shadow of any opportunist government and under the complicity of the darkest dictatorship that devastated Argentina.” Gil also insisted that Buenos Aires' “terrorist plans” had ”failed categorically, just as any attempt to impose their hypocrisy and arrogance on us will fail.

  • Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 09:43 UTC

    Five suspects arraigned in death of former One Direction's Liam Payne

    Payne is believed to have consumed a mixture of alcohol, pink cocaine, MDMA, ketamine, and the antidepressant sertraline prior to falling from the balcony

    Argentine prosecutors Monday arraigned 5 people in connection with the Oct.16 death of former One Direction's British singer Liam Payne in Buenos Aires, which was ruled not a suicide.

  • Monday, December 30th 2024 - 22:37 UTC

    Paraguayan gang believed to be behind Misiones cop murder

    Miñarro was killed with three shots ti his head

    The town of Eldorado in the Argentine province of Misiones dawned Monday with a commando-style group -reportedly of Paraguayan origin- storming at around 7 am into the Gendarmería Nacional Regional Unit III inside the local aeroclub killing Misiones Police Corporal Mauricio Miñarro with three shots in the head. Two FAL rifles and two 12-70 shotguns were stolen in the raid.

  • Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    WaPo says Paraná Waterway riddled with drug trafficking

    Drug trafficking would go from airstrips in Bolivia to Paraguay and then on to the River Plate, the Washington Post explained

    The Paraguay-Paraná Waterway channeling myriads of tons of cargo every year is one of the leading passages of cocaine shipments bound for Hamburg and Antwerp, among other destinations, the Washington Post reported. It runs for more than 3,300 kilometers, connecting at least 150 ports in five countries. It is arguably the most important river trade route on the continent.

  • Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Argentine SMEs post 21.7% improvement in exports

    SMEs also fear a barrage of layoffs next year after imported products flood the domestic market given the current strength of the local peso against the US dollar

    Argentina's Chamber of Small and Medium Enterprises (CAME) reported this weekend that exports between January and November exceeded US$ 9 billion, representing a 21.7% growth in shipments and 27.5% in tonnage, mainly to Brazil and Chile. Overall, South America accounted for 33.1% of sales.