Tag: Juan Manzur

• Monday, December 13th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Health pass to be required in Argentina starting Jan. 1

  

  The Government of Argentina has finally announced a health pass with being required for people aged 13 and over to attend or carry out “activities of high epidemiological and sanitary risk,” according to the administrative decision signed by President Alberto Fernández, Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur and Health Minister Carla Vizzotti.

• Monday, October 11th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Argentine Defense Ministry announces new military base in Catamarca

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana and Governor Raúl Jalil of the province of Catamarca signed late last week an agreement whereby the national Army will set up a military unit in the provincial capital.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2021 - 08:27 UTC

  Argentine meat sales to China to resume next week; the rest of the world will have to wait until 2022

  

  Argentina will resume meat exports to China as of this coming Monday, it was announced Tuesday in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2021 - 23:44 UTC

  Federal forces to be deployed in violence-riddled Argentine city of Rosario

  

  The Argentine Government Tuesday announced the sending of a 1.575-strong federal security team to the Rosario area in the province of Santa Fe within the next two to three weeks, as drug violence and crime are increasingly on the rise since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Monday, September 27th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Argentina's revamped cabinet needs to lift cap on meat exports asap

  

  Argentina's new Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur is said to be speeding up the path towards the lifting of caps on meat exports in an attempt to bring in hard currency as the government of President Alberto Fernández desperately tries to recover from defeat at Sept. 12's Mandatory, Simultaneous and Open Primary (PASO) elections.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina eases down on most COVID-19 restrictions, gradually reopens borders

  

  In what became Juan Manzur's first appearance as Cabinet Chief, the Government of Argentina Tuesday announced a gradual reopening of its borders as of October 1 as well as other measures lifting COVID-19 restrictions.

• Saturday, September 18th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine President reshuffles cabinet to overcome electoral defeat

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday announced a major cabinet reshuffle in an attempt to build up a new government team with which to reverse last Sunday's loss at the Open, Mandatory and Simultaneous Primary (PASO) elections.

• Tuesday, September 22nd 2015 - 05:52 UTC

  Argentina: Double celebration for Kirchnerism, in Chaco and Tucuman provinces

  

  Double victory for Cristina Fernandez and the 'Kirchnerite' model: her candidates won the governorship in the northern province of Chaco and the Tucuman Supreme Court validated the result which confirmed that former Healthcare minister Juan Manzur last 23 August was the clear winner and the next governor of the province.

• Thursday, September 17th 2015 - 10:10 UTC

  Argentine province court orders new governor elections, annulling 23 August polls

  

  The Administrative Court of the Argentine northern province of Tucuman has ordered fresh elections for governor, annulling the polls which took place on August 23, in which a close ally of Cristina Fernandez and former Healthcare minister, Juan Manzur allegedly won by a considerable margin.

• Monday, May 5th 2014 - 06:11 UTC

  The Lancet acknowledges Argentina's child mortality rates have dropped dramatically

  

  Argentina has been improving its mortality rates over the past decades, as it was revealed on Friday by the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. Although Argentina's rates are better than other countries in the region, including Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay and Chile among others still have the better numbers.