Argentina
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:58:00 GMTMercosur backs Argentina days after Islanders' UN appeal for self-determination
Within the span of a week, the two opposing positions in the Falklands dispute were laid out clearly in two separate arenas: South American governments' backing for Argentina's sovereignty claim, and the defense of self-determi...
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:53:00 GMTMilei abolishes the Interior Ministry, expanding Santilli's role ahead of Congress talks
Argentina's government abolished the Interior Ministry and transferred its functions to the cabinet chief's office, headed by Diego Santilli, through an emergency decree published on Thursday in the Official Gazette. The measur...
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:47:00 GMTSnow blankets Mar del Plata as a record polar cold wave grips Argentina
The seaside city of Mar del Plata, one of the main tourist destinations on Argentina's Atlantic coast, woke up covered in snow on Thursday, an unusual sight for a temperate-climate city that became the most widely shared image ...
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:12:00 GMTArgentine ex-official Insaurralde seeks to bar the cash-stacks video from his graft case
The former cabinet chief of Buenos Aires province and ex-mayor of Lomas de Zamora, Martín Insaurralde, asked the courts not to use as evidence the video in which his ex-wife, television host Jesica Cirio, appears alongside sta...
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:55:00 GMTA Spanish investigation tracks how Asia's squid fleet is upending the South Atlantic market
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 trans...
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:54:00 GMTMilei focuses on his domestic agenda after the Adorni reshuffle, forgoing a US trip
Argentine President Javier Milei will prioritize his domestic agenda in the coming days and will not travel to the United States for that country's Independence Day celebrations on July 4, official sources confirmed. The decisi...
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:02:00 GMTArgentina's country risk hits an eight-year low as rating upgrades lift dollar bonds
Argentina's country risk closed this week at 421 basis points, its lowest level in eight years, amid a strong recovery in dollar-denominated sovereign bonds driven by recent improvements in the country's credit rating. The indi...
Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:32:00 GMTA regional shift to the right frames the wave of congratulations to Fujimori
The confirmation of right-wing Keiko Fujimori's victory in Peru's presidential runoff drew a wave of congratulations from leaders across the region, who framed the result within the shift to the right underway in several Latin ...
Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:27:00 GMTArgentina taps the local market to fund a $4.2 billion bondholder payment due July 9
Argentina's Economy Ministry on Monday completed the placement of the Bonar 2028 (AO28), a dollar-denominated bond under local law, raising most of the funds needed to face a maturity of around $4.2 billion with private debt ho...
Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:30:00 GMTArgentina's Pacific-pact bid would make it a trade partner of the UK, raising a Falklands dilemma
Argentina's request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) has reopened a question over its sovereignty claim to the Falklands, since the United Kingdom is a full member of tha...