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Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:55:00 GMT
Official 2020 inflation in Argentina at 36,1%, but several points higher for the poor half of the country
Argentina registered inflation of 36,1% in 2020, with the declining rate during three quarters, picking up strongly in the last three months particularly basics such as food which is serious since almost half of the Argentine p...

Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:15:00 GMT
Argentina wheat exports dropped 52% in December year to year
Argentine wheat exports during December 2020 dropped 52% compared to the same month of 2019, the lowest level in the last five years. The cereal revenue was also the lowest in five years, according to information from the local...

Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:55:00 GMT
Argentina expected to grow 5,4% in 2021, far from mitigating pandemic's impact
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, lowered Argentina's growth estimate for this year to 4,5% from its previous 4.9% forecast, according to the World Economic Outlook, WEO, delivered this week and which includes some forty co...

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:59:00 GMT
Uruguay will partially reopen its borders as of February
Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou announced on Wednesday the partial lifting of the borders' total closure which had been established last December 20, but all other measures that had been announced on that date remain in fu...

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:37:00 GMT
Argentine traders and millers discussing options to avoid a ban on wheat exports
Argentina is worried about domestic food prices and inflation, and as it happened a few weeks ago with an attempt to ban corn exports, a similar situation apparently is happening with wheat, and the different actors involved ar...

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:45:00 GMT
Chilean president ratifies support for Argentina claims in the Falklands' dispute
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera ratified his administration's support for “Argentina's sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands,” and called for Argentina and UK to resume talks t...

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:31:00 GMT
Argentina and Chile “indissolubly twinned countries”, underlines president Fernandez
Argentina and Chile are “indissolubly twinned countries”, said Argentine president Alberto Fernandez during the ceremony at the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago where, next to his peer Sebastián Piñera, and members of the...

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:00:00 GMT
Maersk appoints commercial director for Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay
A.P.Moller-Maersk announced the arrival of Douglas Piagentini as its new commercial director for the East Coast of Latin America made up of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:52:00 GMT
Uruguay's Jose Pepe Mujica bestowed with the highest honor of Argentina
Uruguayan former president, Jose Pepe Mujica has been bestowed by the Argentine government, the country's highest honor, the Collar of the San Martin Liberator Order. The honor is extended to foreign officials, civilian or mili...

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:20:00 GMT
Argentina's mining output fell 70% in 2020 compared to the previous year
The Argentine Chamber of Mining Entrepreneurs (CAEM) reported that the country’s mining output fell by 70% y-o-y in 2020 due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. CAEM also said that small and medium-sized mining operation...



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