Argentina

• Sunday, September 17th 2023 - 08:04 UTC

  Against all odds Milei team insists Falkland Islanders rights must be respected, “they are Argentine citizens”

  

  “I reiterate it, I repeat it and I reaffirm it, the Islanders living in the Falklands/Malvinas will have their rights respected if Milei becomes Argentine president,” emphasized Diana Mondino underlining her statements in an interview with The Telegraph which was considered highly controversial and criticized in Argentina by politicians and the media.

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 11:23 UTC

  Malvinas Council rejects Libertarian candidate's statement on Falklanders' rights

  

  Argentina's Malvinas Council issued a statement condemning the stance of presidential candidate Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party regarding the “self-determination” of the Falkland Islanders and insisted that “the pretended reference of the islanders as a third party to the dispute is a central component of the British diplomatic strategy.”

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  Milei's interview with Tucker Carlson reaches record audiences

  

  With over 300 million screenings in 24 hours, Argentine Libertarian Congressman and presidential candidate Javier Milei's interview with controversial US journalist Tucker Carlson has become the most-viewed video on X, Elon Musk's social platform formerly known as Twitter, it was reported Friday.

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

  Fernández thanks G77+China for supporting Argentina's claim over Falkland/Malvinas

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández warned Friday in Cuba that there is still “a dominant world and a dominated world” while calling all countries attending the G77+China Summit in Havana to “put an end to it forever.”

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  Argentina: Foreigner removed from urgent heart transplant recipients list

  

  The Federal Civil and Commercial Court of Appeals in Buenos Aires ordered a foreigner waiting for a heart transplant removed from the recipient's list administered by the National Central Institute for the Coordination of Ablation and Implantation (Incucai) on the grounds that the petitioner is not a permanent resident in the country as required by law.

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 04:58 UTC

  Milei team insists, if elected president “Falkland Islanders will be respected”

  

  “I reiterate it, I repeat it and I reaffirm it, the Islanders living in the Falklands/Malvinas will have their rights respected if Milei becomes president,” emphasized Diana Mondino, most probably foreign minister of Javier Milei, if he is finally elected as the next Argentine occupant of the Pink House in Buenos Aires in the October/November election.

• Friday, September 15th 2023 - 14:25 UTC

  “Malvinas are nonnegotiable, but we must contemplate the people living in the Falklands,” candidate Milei

  

  ”The Malvinas (Falkland) Islands are Argentine, and sovereignty non-negotiable,” underlined Javier Milei, the Argentine Libertarian candidate who next month could be elected as Argentina's next president, putting an end to two decades of Kirchnerism.

• Friday, September 15th 2023 - 11:30 UTC

  Massa announces VAT refunds and raffles to boost Argentina's economy

  

  Argentina's Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa Thursday announced a refund of the VAT paid on basic food basket items for 9 million workers. In a move to discourage unregistered transactions, he is willing to raffle cars and household appliances for retailers and customers, it was explained.

• Friday, September 15th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Argentine national stabbed in Bolivia dies after being denied medical attention

  

  The death of an Argentine national in Bolivia after being denied medical attention has sparked nationalistic anger and calls for retribution measures, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, September 14th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Argentina planning to become a major world exporter of natural gas

  

  Argentina’s government is focusing on stepping up exports of natural gas as production rises in the Vaca Muerta shale gas deposit, with the first goal to halt gas imports by 2024 or 2025 except at times of high winter demand, Energy Secretary Flavia Royon announced