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Montevideo, July 9th 2026 - 22:09 UTC

Tag: South Atlantic

  • Monday, July 6th 2026 - 20:12 UTC

    Argentine lawmaker files criminal complaint against Milei over US military exercises

    In the filing, Marino argued that Article 75, subsection 28 of the Constitution reserves exclusively for Congress the power to permit the entry of foreign troops

    An opposition lawmaker has filed a criminal complaint against President Javier Milei and four current and former government officials for authorizing, by decree, the entry of US troops that took part in military exercises on Argentine soil without congressional approval.

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  • Thursday, July 2nd 2026 - 09:55 UTC

    A Spanish investigation tracks how Asia's squid fleet is upending the South Atlantic market

    Spain controls much of the world's Loligo squid catch, mainly through the roughly 16 licences granted by the Falklands to fish in their waters, with catches close to 50,000 tons a year

    An international investigation published by the Spanish newspaper El Confidencial, with an extensive interactive report, describes how the expansion of Asian fishing fleets in international waters —mainly Chinese— has transformed the global market for frozen squid, with a direct impact on the European fleet and consequences for fishing in the South Atlantic, one of the main sources of income for the Falklands.

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  • Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 07:56 UTC

    Report warns foreign fleets off Argentina catch up to four times the national industry's haul

    The foundation warned that, if the current level of exploitation continues, resources that are strategic for the economy could be compromised

    Foreign fleets operating along the outer edge of Argentina's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) —the so-called Mile 201— extract up to four times the volume caught by the entire national fishing industry, according to a report by the Latin American Foundation for Fisheries Sustainability (FULASP) released on the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. The organization called the activity one of the main threats to the fishery resources of the South-West Atlantic.

  • Wednesday, May 20th 2026 - 23:59 UTC

    Milei authorizes US Southern Command to patrol Argentine southern sea in strategic shift

    The initiative is part of the US Department of War's Program 333, the framework through which Washington seeks to deepen its military ties with allied countries

    Javier Milei's government on Wednesday announced the signing of a letter of intent with the United States for joint patrolling of the South Atlantic over the next five years, in a military cooperation agreement that ratifies Buenos Aires's strategic alignment with the Donald Trump administration and that has triggered alarms over Argentine sovereignty in its maritime spaces. The agreement, signed by the US Southern Command and Argentine Navy authorities, involves the supply of US technology to modernize the South American country's naval equipment and, at the same time, authorizes the participation of US forces in patrolling the Argentine southern sea.

  • Wednesday, February 18th 2026 - 03:12 UTC

    Argentina clears US oceanographic cruise in the South Atlantic as debate grows over “dual-use” data

    The authorization has triggered criticism in Argentine political and defence circles focused on the potential dual-use value of certain outputs

    Argentina’s Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) recorded that it had “no objections,” within its remit, to a United States request for a marine scientific research cruise by the R/V Roger Revelle inside Argentina’s Exclusive Economic Zone between March 5 and March 30, 2026. In the same document, the council asked for “all basic data” plus “preliminary and final reports” to be submitted to Argentine authorities prior to any publication of results.

  • Tuesday, February 17th 2026 - 12:00 UTC

    Under Antarctic ice, Earth’s deepest gravity “low” points to a 70-million-year story

    The authors report that at the beginning of the Cenozoic, the location of the maximum global geoid depression was centered over the South Atlantic

    A new study has reconstructed the evolution of the planet’s strongest nonhydrostatic geoid depression —the Antarctic Geoid Low (AGL)— finding that the feature has persisted for at least 70 million years and underwent a major shift in both position and strength between roughly 50 and 30 million years ago.

  • Tuesday, January 27th 2026 - 11:12 UTC

    Offshore oil exploration puts Uruguay at crossroads of investment, courts and conservation

    Environmental authorisations set out mitigation measures, including onboard observers (marine biologists) and shutdown protocols for acoustic sources if cetaceans, turtles or pinnipeds are detected

    Viridien (CGG Services) has told Uruguay’s Environment Ministry it aims to begin offshore seismic exploration in February, after submitting the environmental management plan required by the National Directorate for Environmental Quality and Assessment (Dinacea) as a precondition to operate in Uruguayan waters, according to local media reporting.

  • Saturday, January 24th 2026 - 23:01 UTC

    Milei takes over Ushuaia port as Tierra del Fuego warns of “overreach” and geopolitical motives

    The Tierra del Fuego government denied wrongdoing and said it will challenge the measure in court

    Argentina’s government under President Javier Milei has intervened in the port of Ushuaia—the country’s southernmost port and a major gateway to Antarctica—taking control of operations for one year in a move that has reignited tensions with the Tierra del Fuego provincial administration and opened a wider dispute over federal authority.

  • Monday, September 22nd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentine outlet denounces Chilean and Uruguayan help to Royal Air Force

    The article also highlighted that the presence of A400M aircraft was not an isolated event and denounced other RAF maneuvers

    Argentine outlet criticized a Royal Air Force (RAF) transport Airbus A400M Atlas aircraft stopping in Chile and Uruguay on its way to the Falkland Islands, questioning the role of the two South American countries in the British strategy to maintain a permanent military presence in the South Atlantic, despite UN resolutions urging a resolution to the sovereignty dispute with Argentina.

  • Monday, September 8th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

    Lib-Dems, ICCF.UK and Falklands sponsor Conference on Unregulated Fishing in the South Atlantic

    MLA John Birmingham will be representing the Falkland Islands

    The vitally important issue of unregulated fishing in the South Atlantic will be addressed during a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Conference next 21st September at the Bournemouth International Center. Full name of the presentation will be, “Protecting the Blue Frontier: Combating unregulated fishing in the South Atlantic.”

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