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Argentina

  • Thursday, January 18th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

    Javier Milei warns WEF that Western civilization “is in danger”

    “Capitalism is the only tool we have to end hunger and poverty on the planet,” Milei argued

    Argentine President Javier Milei Wednesday warned global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the Western civilization was in peril as it was plunging into socialism and neomarxism. His remarks drew mixed reactions: While his Libertarian followers were elated to hear him say that there, others could simply not believe their ears, some of them through an interpreter because Milei spoke in Spanish.

  • Thursday, January 18th 2024 - 10:34 UTC

    Argentine province to have its own currency

    “The [federal] Government forces us to do this because of the cruelty of the adjustment,” Quintela said

    The Argentine province of La Rioja's legislature Wednesday approved the issuance of a quasi-monetary unit to pay the public workers' salaries as budgetary restrictions from the federal government begin to be felt.

  • Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 19:18 UTC

    Argentina and UK explore economic ties and Falklands resolution in Davos meeting

    Milei mentioned that the discussions didn't delve deeply into the Falklands matter, but they framed it as an agenda item. He expressed a perspective on resolving it through a Hong Kong model

    Argentine President Javier Milei and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron met at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, signalling a commitment to enhance bilateral trade relations and address the dispute over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. Both nations engaged in a conflict over this territory in 1982, when Argentina invaded the South Atlantic islands. Since then, the South American country has maintained its claim to sovereignty.

  • Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 11:55 UTC

    Argentina reports illex squid is back, and announces new monitoring approach along EEZ mile 201

    Defense minister Luis Petri with the commanders of ARA Cordero at the launching of the new approach to protect natural resources

    Squid is back, and with good prospects for the catch season, according to reports from Argentina that also announced the launching of an aggressive vigilant and monitoring campaign between the Navy and Coast Guard to check on the estimated 350 Asian jiggers next to the 201 plus mile don't slip into the Argentine EEZ to “steal our sea resources”

  • Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Milei fooled by fake X account

    What the fake account posted “could have been said by the real one without a doubt...,” Milei argued.

    Argentine President Javier Milei was tricked Monday by a fake X account pretending to be Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof, and responded by criticizing the latter's tenure as economy minister under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

  • Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Venezuela: Maduro says Milei a “fatal mistake”

    Milei thinks that “by shrinking the State prosperity will be born by spontaneous generation,” Maduro explained

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Monday said his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei was a “fatal error” because of his State-capping economic policies. “You are a mistake in the history of Latin America, Milei, a fatal mistake in the history of Argentina,” Maduro said during his annual message before the National Assembly in Caracas.

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 16:55 UTC

    Violent confrontation leaves five dead and five injured in Argentina

    The authorities will rely on these recordings to identify and prosecute those responsible for the attack.

    A brutal clash erupted on Sunday afternoon within an occupied area in the Buenos Aires town of González Catán, La Matanza, resulting in a massacre: five dead and five injured, two of them critically.

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei off to Davos, has meeting arranged with IMF's Georgieva

    Milei is expected to discuss with Georgieva the verbal agreement reached last week between Argentina and the IMF

    Argentine President Javier Milei is departing Monday to Davos, Switzerland, on regular airline flights with stopovers in Frankfurt and Zurich to participate in the World Economic Forum (WEF). According to Casa Rosada sources quoted by local media in Buenos Aires, he is also to have a one-on-one meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    ITA Airways flight makes emergency landing in Montevideo due to passenger's death

    The flight crew called for any medical professionals among the passengers, and appropriate resuscitation measures were taken. Unfortunately, the passenger could not be revived

    An ITA Airways flight traveling from Rome to Buenos Aires had to make an emergency landing at Carrasco Airport in Montevideo this morning following the death of a passenger, according to airport sources.

  • Saturday, January 13th 2024 - 11:30 UTC

    Argentine FM holds meeting with Chinese envoy to soothe ties

    Mondino and Wang dismissed press reports about alleged tensions between the governments of Xi Jinping and Javier Milei

    Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino met Friday with Chinese Ambassador Wang Wei. During the encounter, both diplomats agreed on the importance of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership signed between the two countries ten years ago, and reaffirmed the principle of one China in reference to Taiwan's separatism. However, there was no mention of the currency swap worth US$ 6.5 billion Argentina was expecting to receive.