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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 09:03 UTC

Argentina

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 08:25 UTC

    French rugbiers' future about to be decided

    Lawyer Rafael Cúneo Libarona, brother of the Federal Justice Minister, is representing the two players

    French international rugby players Oscar Jégou and Hugo Auradou might be released Monday from house arrest in the Argentine city of Mendoza where they are facing rape charges. Prosecutor Darío Nora will have to decide whether to file for their continued detention or face the trial in freedom. According to local media, the latter is the most likely option given the new evidence produced by the defense.

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 06:33 UTC

    Aerolíneas Argentinas pilots' protests affecting travel arrangements

    The pilots had been made “disposable offers that disrespect our profession,” Biro explained

    Aerolineas Argentinas flights might be canceled or delayed in the coming days as the Airline Pilots Association (APLA) is planning to stage a series of measures over wages pending updating and other claims. In addition, the union grouping flight attendants is also considering a similar attitude, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, August 10th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Alberto Fernandez's home raided

    The former President also resigned as chairman of the Peronist party

    Former Argentine President Alberto Fernández's apartment in the exclusive Puerto Madero neighborhood of Buenos Aires was raided Friday as a part of the gender violence probe launched on him following the complaint filed by his ex-common-law spouse Fabiola Yáñez. Fernández's cell phone and every other electronic device found on the premises were seized.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina: Pictures of beaten Fabiola Yáñez released

    “You have been hitting me for three days,” Yáñez was quoted as telling Fernández

    Photographs of former Argentine First Lady Fabiola Yáñez with bruises allegedly due to beatings she received from then-President Alberto Fernández were released Thursday by local media. In addition, video footage of TV celebrity Tamara Pettinato sipping beer in the presidential office at Casa Rosada also went public. Although his face is not seen, the voice speaking with Pettinato in an intimate tone resembles that of Fernández.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei tours Vaca Muerta and Chile with a focus on energy investments

    We have the second-largest shale oil reserves in the world and we can be an exporting power, Milei argued

    Argentine President Javier Milei resumed his mileage accruing habit Thursday with a trip to Vaca Muerta in the Patagonian province of Neuquén and later to Santiago, where he met with local businessmen but not with Gabriel Boric Font.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Argentine gov't lifts operational restrictions from BA's Aeroparque

    Aeroparque is the second-busiest air terminal in Argentina

    The Argentine administration of President Javier Milei adopted new measures to further deepen the open skies policies regarding Buenos Aires' metropolitan Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP/SABE) airfield.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 08:59 UTC

    Argentina upgrades Petrel Antarctic base air and maritime facilities

    The new landing strip was first tested last June with a Saab 340

    The three services of the Argentine Armed Forces, together with private sector companies have finished upgrading landing facilities at the Antarctic base of Petrel in the Antarctic Peninsula. Accordingly during the month of June a first medium sized aircraft, Saab 340 from the Argentine Air Force landed successfully at the new landing strip.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 17:48 UTC

    Argentina lowers levy on beef exports, farmers happy but the overall policy questioned

    The latest numbers from meat exporters shows that China takes 81% of Argentine beef sales, Israel 6%, United States 5%, Germany 4% and Netherlands 3,6%.

    The Argentine government is lowering beef export tax 25%, from 9% to 6,75% basically “to promote sales to foreign markets and improve the level of income of producers and processors, favoring the insertion of Argentina in international markets”, points out the decree published on Tuesday in the Official Gazette.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentine breeders in UK tour of meat and dairy technology centres

    The Palermo agriculture and livestock expo where the best of Argentine breeds compete for the top prizes, and is also an opportunity for the display of new technologies and farming practices

    June, July, August are months of the austral winter and Argentina, southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay hold their main livestock shows, (Palermo, Esteio, Roque Alonso and Prado) including a display of the latest technology advances in cattle feeding and breeding.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Former CFK Trade Secretary handed down 3-yr sentence

    “After 14 years the Judiciary says Indec's public statistics are correct,” Moreno underlined

    Former Argentine Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno was sentenced to three years in jail and imposed a six-year disenfranchisement. According to local media, he was found guilty of rigging the data published by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) between 2006 and 2007 under then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK).