Tag: Patagonia

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Patagonian hotels returned to Kirchner family as money laundering enquire reaches nowhere

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Monday recovered all her assets which have been involved in an alleged money-laundering scheme, a federal court ruled Monday.

• Friday, April 2nd 2021 - 09:26 UTC

  Remains of new dinosaur species unearthed in Argentine Patagonia

  

  Argentine scientists Thursday confirmed fossils of a dinosaur found in the province of Neuquén belonged to the Llukalkan aliocranianus, known as “the one that causes fear.”

• Monday, March 15th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Argentine president attacked and stoned while visiting areas devastated by Patagonia forest fires

  

  Argentina is not an easy country to manage, particularly when institutions are weak and governments lack credibility. Such was the experience of president Alberto Fernandez during a visit to Patagonia to announce support for residents that suffered the devastation caused by forest fires in the region.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentina's Patagonia bank teams with Swiss UBS and Banco do Brasil to have a global platform

  

  UBS BB Investment Bank, a joint venture between UBS Group AG and Banco do Brasil SA for South America, reached a collaboration agreement with Argentina’s Banco Patagonia SA.

• Tuesday, February 9th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  YPF closer to restructuring its debt, expecting to concentrate in boosting shale deposits in Patagonia

  

  Argentina’s state-managed oil giant expects to avoid a costly default next month after it won support for a debt swap from a large creditor group. The so-called Ad Hoc Bondholder Group, which holds 45% of YPF’s 2021 notes, expressed support for the exchange after the company increased its cash sweetener over the weekend.

• Saturday, August 22nd 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Massive losses of sheep in Patagonia highlands because of intense snowstorms

  

  Snowstorms and frosts in the high areas of the Argentine Patagonia Rio Negro province could cause the death of 70% of the flock, according to estimates from the provincial Livestock Secretariat, Tabaré Bassi.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Puerto Madryn 2020/21 cruise season agenda and calls “stand”; first vessel expected 25 October

  

  The head of the port's administration of Puerto Madryn, in Argentine Patagonia, said that so far the coming 2020/21 cruise season “stands”, and the first vessel is scheduled to call in the Chubut province maritime terminal next 25 October, despite the pandemic.

• Monday, March 16th 2020 - 11:15 UTC

  Chile quarantines 1.300 people aboard two cruise vessels

  

  Chile has quarantined more than 1,300 people aboard two cruise ships after an elderly Briton aboard one of them tested positive for the coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Saturday. Both ships are cruising the Chilean fjords in Patagonia.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Another Argentine province, Chubut, asks to delay payments on debt

  

  The government of Argentina's Chubut province will seek to delay payments on debt after Buenos Aires province, Argentina's largest, also asked its creditors for extensions as the country grapples with a debt crisis, local media reported on Friday.

• Saturday, July 6th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentine fishing industry against granting facilities to the Chinese fleet in the South Atlantic

  

  The different chambers of the Argentine fisheries industry have joined efforts to expose alleged plans to grant the Chinese fishing fleet in the South Atlantic, “strategic corridors” in Patagonia ports for support and maintenance of their vessels, reports pescare.com.ar.