Tag: Argentina

• Wednesday, December 16th 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentina has 1,510,203 Covid-19 positive cases and a death toll of 41,204

  

  Argentina on Tuesday reported 6,981 new COVID-19 cases, bringing its national tally to 1,510,203, said the Ministry of Health. The ministry also said that 165 more patients died of the disease, raising the nationwide death toll to 41,204.

• Sunday, November 8th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Massive flags protest demonstration across Argentina programmed for Sunday

  

  A massive Argentine flags' protest is scheduled for this Sunday with the support of different sectors of urban communities and farmers throughout the country, similar to the several that have been successfully held so far this year in support of the defense of Liberty, the Republic and Justice. The last one was on 12 October.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 13:16 UTC

  Dollar strapped Argentine government moves to recover “grabbed” land and evict squatters

  

  Argentine anti-riot police clashed with a group of protesters on Thursday while evicting them from makeshift homes on a contested property south of the capital, Buenos Aires. Six police officers were injured and some forty people were arrested, according to authorities.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 13:00 UTC

  Argentina and Mexico “vote” for Biden and delay nominations at IDB until after the US election

  

  Mexico and Argentina have delayed a key meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank until after the Nov. 3 U.S. election, delivering an early setback to plans by the bank’s new U.S. chief to install vice presidents from smaller countries.

• Monday, August 10th 2020 - 18:03 UTC

  Falklands elected government rejects point blank Argentina's threatening and bullying tactics

  

  The Falkland Islands elected Government on Monday publicly expressed its disappointment with the Argentine government regarding its determined intent to escalate their sovereignty claim over the Islands and continue harassing the people of the Falklands. In response to that attitude Gilbert House, seat of the government elected by the people of the Falklands, in democratic elections, has made the following release:

• Thursday, May 21st 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Controversy in Argentina over a new bank bill with the image of a brilliant doctor with Nazi connections

  

  Argentina's Jewish community has expressed outrage at the decision to print a banknote bearing the likeness of a doctor who expressed support for Nazi ideology and even backed Josef Mengele's experiments on Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2020 - 14:33 UTC

  Tim Atkin's report on the remarkable transformation of Argentine wines

  

  The latest annual report, which is available through his website timatkin.com, is the eighth of his annual reports from Argentina. Atkin said: “I first went to Argentina in 1992 and the transformation has been remarkable. I can’t think of another country, even South Africa that has changed so much in my wine writing lifetime.

• Thursday, May 7th 2020 - 10:42 UTC

  Argentina has more reported cases of dengue (25.000) than of coronavirus (5,200)

  

  Argentina officially has 5.208 COVID 19 confirmed cases with a death toll of 273 since the pandemic broke out. However the country is suffering from even more acute disease infection, the mosquito-transmitted dengue, with some 25.000 confirmed cases, and of which 5.601 in the last three weeks.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2020 - 07:14 UTC

  Argentine patrol arrests Chinese jigger illegally fishing in the county's EEZ

  

  The Argentine Navy sighted and arrested early Monday a Chinese jigger which was illegally operating in the country's EEZ. The report says that the ocean patrol vessel ARA Bouchard detected the Hong Pu 16, fishing with its Automatic Identification System turned off, but full lights on to catch squid.

• Monday, May 4th 2020 - 08:13 UTC

  Argentina arrested on Sunday a Portuguese trawler poaching in its EEZ

  

  The Argentine Coast Guard arrested on Sunday a Portuguese trawler poaching in the country's EEZ, and will in the next few hours be escorted to the port of Bahía Blanca where it will face charges.