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Montevideo, November 24th 2024 - 16:39 UTC

Argentina

  • Monday, September 25th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

    Argentina: JxC candidate wins gubernatorial elections in Mendoza

    “We need Patricia Bullrich as president of the country,” Cornejo insisted

    Alfredo Cornejo of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), a party within the opposition Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) alliance and particularly close to presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich, won Sunday's elections to become governor of Mendoza for the third time in his life.

  • Monday, September 25th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Argentina insists Navitas Petroleum has a ban due to “illegal” operations in Falkland Islands

    An offshore rig could very soon be seen again operating in Falklands waters

    Argentina has again complained that the Israeli company Navitas Petroleum LP is operating in the Falkland Islands, Malvinas Islands, involved in illegal activities in Argentine insular territory without the pertinent hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation permits from the competent authorities.

  • Monday, September 25th 2023 - 09:43 UTC

    Argentina thanks G77 plus China for support regarding Falklands/Malvinas

    Tettamanti insisted on Buenos Aires' “full willingness” to establish with London a “renewed bilateral agenda”

    The Argentine administration of President Alberto Fernández Saturday expressed its gratitude towards the Group of 77 (G77) plus China for its support regarding the South American country's claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

  • Saturday, September 23rd 2023 - 12:55 UTC

    Milei's ghost lingers over convention of rightwing leaders in BA

    Bullrich said Milei would not last long in office if he wins this year's elections

    The Libertad y Democracia Group of center-rightwing leaders gathered in Buenos Aires Friday to express its support to opposition candidate Patricia Bullrich of Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) of former President Mauricio Macri, who co-chaired the event “The ideas of freedom in the politics of the future” with Chile's Sebastián Piñera.

  • Friday, September 22nd 2023 - 10:04 UTC

    Argentina releasing LPG trucks bound for Paraguay

    By Thursday, 22 units had been stopped by Argentine Customs

    In the latest episode of the feud between Argentina and Paraguay, trucks carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) bound for Asunción and detained by Argentine customs began to be released Thursday, it was reported, a week after barges carrying fuel were also detained for unpaid tolls on the Paraná River waterway.

  • Friday, September 22nd 2023 - 08:42 UTC

    Argentine Army officers remanded for “welcome rite” murder

    Second Lieutenant Chirinos was 22 when he choked to death in his vomit

    Argentine Judiciary authorities Thursday ordered the arrest of seven Army officers for their alleged involvement in the death of Second Lieutenant Matías Chirino after an “initiation rite” at the Artillery Group Nº 3 barracks in Paso de los Libres, in the province of Corrientes in June last year.

  • Friday, September 22nd 2023 - 08:38 UTC

    Four Argentine soldiers killed in lorry crash

    At least 18 troops were hospitalized after the accident; nine of them were said to be in a serious condition

    Four servicepeople of the Argentine Army died Thursday and 18 others were injured when a a Mercedez Benz 1518 lorry derailed on Provincial Route 62 in the San Martín de los Andes area in the Patagonian province of Neuquén as it was bringing back the soldiers to their barracks after high mountain skiing practice.

  • Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 11:12 UTC

    Paraguayan lawmaker ready for war with Argentina

    The 25-year-old Rubin is willing to go to war for his country

    Paraguayan Congressman Rubén Isaac Rubín Orrego of the National Encounter Alliance (Alianza Encuentro Nacional - AEN) Wednesday said his country needed “missiles that can hit important points in the region because, otherwise, we are already losing the diplomatic game” with Argentina amid escalating tension between the two countries.

  • Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    Unemployment falls in Argentina in 2Q, Indec says

    In the first six months of 2023, Argentina's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) accumulated an inter-annual drop of 1.9%, Indec found

    Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) released a report Wednesday showing that unemployment fell to 6.2% of the labor force in the second quarter of 2023, an improvement from the 6.9% recorded between January and March.

  • Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 10:40 UTC

    Argentina, US sign agreement on security cooperation

    Ambassador Stanley said the agreement was “an evolution of our cooperation and understanding”

    Argentina's Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with US Ambassador Marc Stanley to strengthen security cooperation.