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Sat, 10 Apr 2021 08:53:00 GMT
Argentine inflation forecast at 46% for year 2021, 3.9% for March alone
Argentina's Central Bank Friday announced the yearly inflation for 2021 was expected to reach 46%, while figures for the past month of March were around 3.9%. The official peso/US dollar exchange rate was foreseen at $ 115/ US$...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 08:30:00 GMT
Argentina strongly opposes UK's firing of missiles in the Falklands
Argentina Friday expressed its government's utmost rejection of the announcement by British authorities that missiles were to be launched at the Falkland Islands. The Foreign Ministry warned that the “alleged defensive condit...

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:56:00 GMT
Argentine Senate passes Income Tax reform with all votes but one
Argentina's Upper House Thursday passed by 66 votes in favour and one abstention the tax reforms proposed by the government of President Alberto Fernández, which would rid workers with a monthly gross income of 150,000 pesos (...

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:55:00 GMT
Argentine officers accused for torturing own troops during 1982 war
The Federal Court of Appeals of Comodoro Rivadavia Thursday upheld in a 2-1 vote the arraignment of former Argentine officers Eduardo Gassino, Belisario Affranchino Rumi, Gustavo Calderini and Miguel Ángel Garde for “imposit...

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:54:00 GMT
Brazil Vice-President dubs Argentina “an eternal beggar”
In a statement supporting the government's proposed fiscal adjustment, Brazil's Vice President Hamilton Mourao Thursday labelled Argentina an “eternal beggar,” which might spark another diplomatic incident, of which the adm...

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:30:00 GMT
Argentina's INDEC figures “encouraging” for government, still not for people
While inflation grows rampant and people lose some or all of their income in the middle of the coronavirus restrictions, Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) Thursday released a new economic report wh...

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 09:14:00 GMT
Chilean, Argentine scientists find remains of mammal from the age of dinosaurs
The University of Chile Thursday announced the discovery of the remains of a hitherto unknown species of a mammal that inhabited Patagonia some 74 million years ago.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:32:00 GMT
IMF likely to review interest rates charged to Argentina... in due time
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva Wednesday admitted the rates Argentina is currently paying will be subject to review, at the request of the South American country.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:53:00 GMT
Patagonian hotels returned to Kirchner family as money laundering enquire reaches nowhere
Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Monday recovered all her assets which have been involved in an alleged money-laundering scheme, a federal court ruled Monday.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:44:00 GMT
Argentina complains of Uruguayan acquiescence to RAF transport aircraft
Argentina filed a formal complaint Tuesday before Uruguay for allowing a British Royal Air Force transport aircraft serving the Falkland Islands to refuel at Montevideo on April 4, it was reported.



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