Tag: Argentina

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 06:31 UTC

  Falklands' Humanitarian Plan to identify Argentine soldiers remains extended

  

  Argentina, United Kingdom and the Red Cross International Committee with the consent of the Falklands Islands have agreed to extend the Humanitarian Plan of identifying remains buried at the Argentine military cemetery close Darwin.

• Saturday, September 28th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Opposition candidate wants to re-profile Argentine sovereign debt following on Uruguay's case in 2003

  

  Argentine presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez indicated he would tackle the country's debt problem by adopting a strategy similar to that of Uruguay, which successfully extended its bond maturities in 2003.

• Saturday, September 28th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Hundreds of women dress up as Eva Peron in support of Argentina's opposition

  

  Women dressed as Eva Peron, old political anthems blaring in the streets, flash-mobs with step-perfect choreography - it's all part of the present-day cut and thrust of politics in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Falklands/Sao Paulo weekly air link details uploaded in LATAM's website

  

  Flight details of the new air link of the Falkland Islands with the South American continent, Sao Paulo in Brazil, were uploaded to the LATAM website on Wednesday. After a hiccup in the loading which suggested prices were in the £1000s the computerization was completed and a more attractive price was shown to be available.

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  Delta Air Lines buys a 20% stake in LATAM Group for US$ 1.9bn

  

  Delta Air Lines said on Thursday it would buy a 20% stake in LATAM Airlines Group for US$1.9 billion, creating a major new airline partnership and ending the Chilean carrier's ties with American Airlines.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Resumption of Argentina's financial program with IMF frozen... and “will have to wait”

  

  Argentina’s financial program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be on hold for some time as the nation grapples with severe political and economic uncertainty, the Fund’s Acting Managing Director David Lipton said an interview.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Lagarde defends IMF decision to support Argentina with a record credit

  

  Christine Lagarde has defended the IMF decision to give Argentina a record credit line last year, even after the US$56-billion program fell short of stabilizing the nation’s troubled economy.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Macri holds a 'constructive meeting' with IMF, but no news about the pending tranche of a major loan

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri met with his International Monetary Fund backers in New York on Tuesday, but there was little light shed on whether the body was likely to approve a key US$ 5.4 billion tranche of funds to the indebted country.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 17:32 UTC

  Argentine research vessel Eduardo L. Holmberg sets sail on mackerel mission

  

  After its repair at the Tandanor Shipyard and a series of adjustments in Mar del Plata, the Eduardo L. Holmberg fishing research boat of Argentina's National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP) Monday set sail on a mission to evaluate mackerel (Scomber colias), it was reported.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Argentine biggest bondholders to meet with Treasury Secretary Lacunza

  

  A group of Argentina’s biggest bondholders will meet with the country’s treasury minister in New York this Monday to hear how Latin America’s third-largest economy plans to dig itself out of its latest debt crisis.