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Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:30:00 GMT
Unofficial US dollar crosses 200-peso threshold in Argentina
As next Sunday's mid-term elections loom over and the government of President Alberto Fernández seems headed for inevitable defeat, desperate Argentinians turned to the currency black market to convert their volatile pesos int...

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:24:00 GMT
Opposition lawmaker wants Argentine teenagers accountable for their crimes
Following the assassination of a candy store vendor over the weekend in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, rage got hold of most Argentines as the alleged perpetrators of the robbery gone bad were captured a few minutes after the a...

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:54:00 GMT
Falklands/Malvinas: Red Cross presents final report after six Argentine soldiers are identified
The International Committee of the Red Cross presented on Monday, in Geneva, its final report on forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:54:00 GMT
Uruguay calls Nicaraguan elections “illegitimate” – Argentina does not want to interfere
Uruguay's Foreign Ministry Monday said the electoral process in Nicaragua which led to a new five-year term for the incumbent President Daniel Ortega and his Vice President wife Rosario Murillo lacked “legitimacy.”

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 08:44:00 GMT
Antarctica cruise season 2021/22 launched in Ushuaia with National Geographic vessels
Argentine Minister of Tourism Matias Lammens and Tierra del Fuego governor Gustavo Melella officially opened the 2021/22 cruise season this Monday, in Ushuaia, with the arrival of “National Geographic Endurance”, which tomo...

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 08:03:00 GMT
Argentine pharmaceuticals agree to freeze meds prices
The Government of Argentina and the local pharmaceutical companies have agreed to freeze the price of medications until Jan. 7, 2022, the Health Ministry and the Domestic Trade Secretariat announced Monday.

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:54:00 GMT
Health care professionals in charge of Maradona booked for murder
All seven health care professionals who were treating Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona when he underwent surgery and eventually died have been charged with malpractice and other crimes by a San Isidro (Greater B...

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:00:00 GMT
Argentine health ministers support national gov't's decision to vaccinate children
Health Ministers of jurisdictions other than the federal government have lined up together behind their national colleague Carla Vizzotti after the latter was accused of lying when she recommended vaccinating children aged 3 to...

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 09:23:00 GMT
Lower export taxes on hake, squid and shrimp, as long as they are processed in Argentina
The Argentine government has issued Decree 754/2021 which lowers fisheries export taxes, particularly referred to hake, shrimp and squid as long as they are processed in the country including added value, to the benefit of Arge...

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 09:05:00 GMT
Three Mapuche suspects captured in Argentine province of Neuquén
Three people were captured at Cerro Mahuida in the Argentine province of Neuquén by Argentina's Gerndarmería Nacional (Border Guard) for carrying ammunition and camouflage clothing through a non-authorized border crossing, it...



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