Fernández to meet Biden at White House on March 29
by Api Dhadda United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights highlights repeated “evictions and violent interventions” in new report.
President Alberto Fernández announces construction of new memorial site promoting human rights at Campo de Mayo military base; Garrison served as a clandestine detention centre during 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
Improvement in GDP was consumer-led (up 9.4%) with exports up 5.7%, new INDEC report reveals.
State banks and ANSES social security agency must swap 100% of foreign bond holdings for peso-denominated debt, decree confirms.
MARKETS
Argentina’s sovereign-risk spread over US Treasuries widened as many as 126 basis points on Wednesday to almost 2,500, its widest in four months.
Bloomberg
Officials want to sell new bonds maturing in 2026 and 2027, lengthening the sovereign debt maturity curve as a way of sending a signal to the private sector to also extend their maturities.
GRUPO PUEBLA FORUM
Argentina’s vice-president uses closing speech of Grupo Puebla summit in Buenos Aires to repeat claims she is a victim of political persecution and condemn the “lawfare” that is flooding the region.
President Alberto Fernández has confirmed Argentina's re-entry into the UNASUR political bloc, almost five years on from its controversial departure.
Argentina's economy contracted less than expected at the end of last year, with GDP down 1.5% in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared to the previous three-month period.
Lionel Messi and his Argentina teammates will be greeted by fans as heroes on Thursday when they play their first match since winning the World Cup in Qatar.
Prestigious Abel Prize for Mathematics awarded to Argentine-American Luis Caffarelli. An expert in "partial differential equations," he is the first South American-born mathematician to win the prestigious Norwegian prize.
Woman, identified as "Beatríz", squaring off against El Salvador for case on the legality of denying access to abortion services
Responding to repeated blackouts and citizen anger, Argentina’s government intervenes in the running of Edesur power firm; Economy Minister Sergio Massa imposes Jorge Ferraresi as trustee for 180 days.
The leaders of La Cámpora, the Kirchnerite political grouping founded by Máximo Kirchner, are getting older. A new generation, led by new secretary-general Lucía Cámpora, are taking over at the top as the organisation refreshes its youth appeal.
New US State Department report on rights situation in Argentina last year highlights “numerous cases of corruption,” and says that President Alberto Fernández’s government took only “limited steps” to fully investigate abuses.
Javier Milei is known for his rage-filled rhetoric calculated to shock. With the country in economic turmoil, the radical conservative is climbing in the polls ahead of elections for the top job.
columnists
Most viewed
-
1 Race against time to rescue Argentina’s wine grapes
-
2 Why is Argentina’s national team known as ‘La Scaloneta’?
-
3 New dictatorship memorial site to be built at Campo de Mayo military garrison
-
4 Argentina and 'La Scaloneta' prepare for Monumental World Cup party
-
5 UN report criticises ‘structural discrimination’ against indigenous community in Argentina
Fernández: Diplomatic crisis with Ecuador is ‘unjust, unconscionable’
Latin America and the Caribbean will experience a "difficult" 2023 with barely one percent growth due to global uncertainty, Inter-American Development Bank warns.
Mauricio Macri among leaders who sign up to new political forum designed to regional coordination and take on the “populist” left; Grupo Libertad y Democracia founded by former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera.
editorials
CLIMATE CHANGE
UN estimates will cross the key 1.5-degree Celsius global warming limit in about a decade
Bloomberg
Pampa, TGS, YPF, Arcor struggle to keep up – inflation of more than 100% in Argentina is erasing the advantage the country’s top companies used to have by booking revenue in US dollars.
Agriculture
Buenos Aires Grain Exchange slashes soy crop forecast to 25 million metric tons, potentially the smallest harvest since it began keeping records in 2001.
Bilateral relations have been on brink of collapse after Pope Francis referred to the government of socialist president Daniel Ortega as a dictatorship.
Since 1992 Saint Patrick’s Day has had to co-exist with an appalling tragedy in Argentina at least – the terrorist car-bomb destruction of the Israeli Embassy.
Avatars generated by artificial intelligence are becoming ever more common in global disinformation. Experts warn of the threat of deep fakes and AI-generated audio-visuals.
The International Criminal Court announces an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on the war crime accusation of unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children. Russia is not a party to the ICC so it is unclear if or how the Russian president could ever be extradited.
Venezuela's Supreme Court annulls a controversial article of the military justice code that had criminalised homosexuality within the armed forces.
A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.
According to local press reports, between 1.5 million and two million people joined the virtual online queue in an attempt to get a ticket for the Albiceleste's first appearance on home soil since lifting the football World Cup in Qatar.
Alberto Fernández is set to undergo a minor medical procedure for a lumbar hernia on Thursday after suffering from sharp back pains.
The National Electoral Court on Thursday approved the timetable for this year’s elections, including the dates of the primaries and general elections.
Argentina raised its benchmark rate on Thursday for the first time since September after annual inflation surpassed 100%.
Manchester City extended Julián Álvarez's contract to 2028 on Thursday in recognition of an impressive debut season from the Argentine World Cup winner.
Presidential spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti acknowledged Thursday that the latest inflation data released on Tuesday by the INDEC national statistics bureau "is bad, very bad and was not what was expected."
Whether sporting her party's colours on her wedding dress, breaking taboos, or rocking eco-friendly clothing, Brazil's new first lady is turning heads and making statements with her fashion choices.
Residents renew protests across the capital and its outskirts amid prolonged power cuts. Blackouts, which have struck in the middle of an unprecedented heatwave, have left more than 100,000 homes in the dark.
Argentina’s Central Bank is considering raising its benchmark rate for the first time since September, according to two people with direct knowledge.
