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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 15:27:00 GMT
Falkland Islands mourn the loss of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) announced in a statement “with deep sadness” that the FIG “has today learned of the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.” In tribute to the Prince, the Falk...

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:38:00 GMT
UK in mourning as Duke of Edinburgh dies aged 99
Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died at Windsor Castle Friday, aged 99.

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 10:38:00 GMT
Anti-covid measures lightened in Rio de Janeiro
Starting this Friday, restrictive measures imposed a week ago as a part of the local authorities in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro's strategy against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic are to be lightened, it was ann...

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 10:05:00 GMT
Venezuela investigates mayor for marking homes of Covid-19 infected people
The mayor of a municipality in the western Venezuelan state of Yaracuy this week forced people to mark the homes of Covid-19 patients in his community with signs to prevent visits and prevent contagion.



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