Argentina

• Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 20:28 UTC

  Argentine Foreign Minister responds ironically to UK Foreign Secretary's Falkland Islands visit

  

  The visit of UK Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron to the Falkland Islands has sparked an ironic response from Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino. Mondino took to social media to thank Cameron for “including Argentina in his visit to the region,” suggesting he visit Buenos Aires on a future occasion.

• Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 15:19 UTC

  Argentina: Fires in Patagonian National Parks close to being controlled

  

  Firefighters in the Argentine National Parks of Los Alerces and Nahuel Huapi were closer Monday to “controlling” and “containing” part of the catastrophe. In Los Alerces, there were still active outbreaks in addition to some 8,000 hectares of native forest burned down, it was reported.

• Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

  Buenos Aires under heavy mosquito invasion

  

  In Argentina, the City and Province of Buenos Aires are going through a “peak of abundance” of the Aedes albifasciatus mosquito, which has led specialists to recommend the citizenry to up all preventive measures and use repellents, mosquito nets, and wear long-sleeve clothing. These insects are said to be behind the spread of the Western Equine Encephalitis virus (WEE).

• Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 10:08 UTC

  Lord Cameron 'not welcome' in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Gustavo Melella, Governor of the Argentine Province of Tierra del Fuego and the South Atlantic Islands -to which the British Overseas Territories in the region technically belong- Monday declared British Foreign Secretary and former Prime Minister David Cameron “persona non grata” after the latter landed in Stanley for a series of engagements.

• Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 07:05 UTC

  Falklands lawmakers look forward to further deepen cooperation between UK and the Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly in a release said it was pleased to extend a warm welcome to the Rt Hon Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, Secretary of State for Foreign Commonwealth and Development Affairs, on the official visit to the Islands.

• Monday, February 19th 2024 - 12:54 UTC

  Cameron's Falklands visit, 'incredibly important for the people and their freedom'

  

  Falklands elected lawmaker and currently president of the UKOTA political council, MLA Teslyn Barkman was interviewed by The Times radio on the visit of Lord Cameron and the Island's current situation with neighboring Argentina's sovereignty claims over the “Malvinas Islands”.

• Monday, February 19th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

  Poverty on the rise in Argentina, Catholic University says

  

  According to a study from the Argentine Catholic University (UCA) published during the weekend, poverty in the South American country has gone up from 44.7% to 57.4% of the population in little over two months since President Javier Milei took office.

• Sunday, February 18th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

  Foreign minister Cameron confirms visit to Falklands, and to Brazil and Paraguay

  

  British foreign minister David Cameron said on Sunday that the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands will not be up for discussion as long as they want to remain a British territory. Cameron is preparing to make the first visit to the Falklands by a cabinet minister since 2016, according to a report from BBC.

• Saturday, February 17th 2024 - 23:34 UTC

  Falklands' visit for David Cameron? FIG readies to receive a VVIP

  

  The UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron plans to visit the Falkland Islands soon in a show of British sovereignty over the archipelago after newly-elected Argentine President Javier Milei pledged to “get them back,.” according to reports in the London Media.

• Saturday, February 17th 2024 - 10:34 UTC

  Argentina achieves financial surplus for the first time in 12 years

  

  The Argentine government of President Javier Milei announced Friday in Buenos Aires that the country had achieved a financial surplus for the first time in 12 years. In the first full month of the new administration, tax revenues grew by 256.9% which in addition to stringent cuts in public expenditure yielded these results, it was explained.