Tag: Argentina

• Thursday, September 19th 2019 - 10:43 UTC

  Argentine veteran decries planned Cordoba-Mt Pleasant flight

  

  Former Argentine Army conscript Edgardo Esteban Wednesday claimed LATAM Brasil's planned Sao Paulo-Mount Pleasant passenger flight with a stop in the Argentine city of Córdoba serves only the interests of the Falkland islanders.

• Thursday, September 19th 2019 - 10:32 UTC

  Argentina defreezes fuel price meaning 4% increase at pumps

  

  Effective this Thursday, the government of Argentina agreed to defreeze the price of fuel and thus authorize a 4 percent increase after yielding to pressure from province governors and oil companies as the barrel of crude also goes up globally.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Image of Virgin of Lujan taken to Falklands during the war to be returned at ceremony blessed by the Pope

  

  An image of Argentina's saint patron, the Virgin of Lujan, which was carried to the Falklands during the 1982 conflict, and remained unaccounted for during years, will be returned by the United Kingdom. In retribution, the Argentine military bishop will hand a replica of the image to the head of British military chaplains in a ceremony to take place next month in the Vatican with Pope Francis blessing the images.

• Monday, September 16th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  IMF choice: to unlock or not to unlock the last tranche of funds for Argentina

  

  The International Monetary Fund has a tough choice to make in Argentina: unlock US$5.4 billion in funds under the country’s loan deal as the government strains to stave off default, or hold the money back and risk sparking more market panic.

• Monday, September 16th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Gas well catches fire at Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale formation

  

  Argentina’s state-controlled oil company YPF said a gas well caught fire at its vast shale oil and gas formation of Vaca Muerta early on Sunday following a gas leak on the previous day.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 10:39 UTC

  Argentina/Spain, Sunday's basketball World Cup final in China

  

  Power forward Luis Scola scored a game-high 28 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Argentina breezed past France 80-66 to book their place in Sunday's basketball World Cup final against Spain.

• Friday, September 13th 2019 - 19:20 UTC

  Argentine Lower House unanimously approves draft emergency food law

  

  Argentine lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved a draft emergency food law to free up resources for social programs amid a worsening economic crisis. The bill, yet to be approved by the Senate, would provide a 50 percent increase in food assistance programs to growing numbers of poor.

• Friday, September 13th 2019 - 12:49 UTC

  Argentine central bank announces further currency controls

  

  Argentina's central bank this week announced further currency controls in an effort to tame speculation and stem a spiraling debt crisis in Latin America's third-largest economy.

• Friday, September 13th 2019 - 12:38 UTC

  August inflation in Argentina reverses tendency and again shoots up: 4%

  

  Prices in Argentina shot up last month after a shocking primary vote plunged the peso, reversing four months of declines.

• Friday, September 13th 2019 - 11:51 UTC

  Argentine budget forecasts a 2.6% contraction this year, and 1% growth in 2020

  

  Argentina's inflation rate is expected at 53% in December 2019, but will fall back to 34% the following year, according to projections in the forthcoming 2020 budget, treasury officials said this week.