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Montevideo, July 21st 2025 - 12:05 UTC

Argentina

  • Monday, June 16th 2025 - 10:57 UTC

    Argentine Supreme Court Justice booed in Mexico for CFK ruling

    Protesters also chanted that the likes of Rosenkrantz would be hunted down wherever they might go

    Argentine Supreme Court (CSJN) Justice Carlos Rosenkrantz was booed in Mexico City for the ruling against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK). Demonstrators, including Argentines in Mexico and Mexican citizens, gathered outside the Marquis Reforma Hotel, where Rosenkrantz was speaking at a conference.

  • Monday, June 16th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Barrage of chaisaw decrees expected in Buenos Aires

    If these cuts are not enacted by July 8, they will have to wait after the Oct. 26 mid-term elections, Sturzenegger explained

    After President Javier Milei returned Saturday from a ten-day tour including key European cities plus Israel, Buenos Aires is bracing for a barrage of further chainsaw decrees aimed at cutting down State spending as the powers in this regard delegated onto the head of State are to expire on July 8.

  • Friday, June 13th 2025 - 19:30 UTC

    Argentina ups security measures at Jewish community venues

    Security measures have been upped at key Jewish community venues

    Israel has temporarily closed its embassy in Argentina and other countries due to escalating conflict with Iran. In Argentina, home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, the confrontation is causing concern. Security Minister Patricia Bullrich upped the alert to intermediate.

  • Friday, June 13th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Milei leaves Israel before airspace closure and reaches Spain

    Milei was to depart for Buenos Aires Saturday after a series of engagements in Madrid, having left Israel only hours before its airspace was closed

    Argentine President Javier Milei landed safely in Spain Thursday after leaving Israel before the full-scale attack against Iran's military and nuclear targets, which resulted, among other measures, in the closure of Tel Aviv's airspace.

  • Friday, June 13th 2025 - 09:29 UTC

    Indec says Argentina's inflation in May stood at 1.5%

    Caputo celebrated the news saying his country has the best president in the world

    Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded a 1.5% increase last month, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) announced Thursday. It was the lowest monthly inflation rate since May 2020 and closer to 1.4% from November 2017.

  • Thursday, June 12th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    South America's leftwing leaders support CFK after court ruling

    Lula and Petro called CFK to express their solidarity

    Most of South America's leftwing leaders expressed their solidarity with former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), whose 6-year prison sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court (CSJN) earlier this week.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 21:04 UTC

    Milei confirms Argentina's Embassy in Israel will be moved to Jerusalem

    Milei also recalled the two antisemitic terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires in the 1990s

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced Wednesday during his speech before the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) that the South American country would be relocating its Embassy to West Jerusalem in 2026. The first Argentine president ever to address the Knesset, Milei condemned the Oct. 7 attack by the terrorist group Hamas and demanded the release of all Argentine hostages.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    CFK's conviction saga includes attack on TV station and marketing boom

    Opportunity snatchers from both ends of the political spectrum launched T-shirts and other items defending either the former president or the judiciary's ruling mandating her imprisonment

    Following Argentine Supreme Court's (CSJN) ruling Tuesday upholding a six-year prison sentence against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in addition to a lifetime disenfranchisement in the so-called Vialidad case, a group of her supporters stormed into the Canal 13 and Todo Noticias (TN) building in Buenos Aires, breaking glasses, smashing cars, and throwing stones and blunt objects.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 09:32 UTC

    Milei thanks Macron for France's support before the IMF

    Milei's presence at an event focused on environmental issues came as a surprise

    Before flying to Israel, Argentine President Javier Milei met in Nice this week with his French colleague Emmanuel Macron during the United Nations Oceans Conference to discuss the long-stalled Mercosur-European Union trade agreement.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 22:52 UTC

    CFK faces arrest and political lifelong ban

    CFK is likely to be granted house arrest given her age

    Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) unanimously upheld a six-year prison sentence and lifelong disenfranchisement from public office for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) in the Vialidad case, which involved irregularities in awarding 51 public road works contracts in Santa Cruz to businessman Lázaro Báez.