• Covid-19 test or vax no longer required to enter Brazil
    Saturday, June 3, 2023 from MercoPress
    In line with the World Health Organization's decision to lift the Covid-19 global emergency, Brazilian authorities decided that both nationals and foreigners entering the South American country no longer need to present proof of...
  • Former detention center in BA granted Mercosur patrimony status
    Saturday, June 3, 2023 from MercoPress
    The former Argentine Navy's Mechanics School, which functioned as a clandestine detention center during the 1976-1983 military regime and was later turned into the Memory Museum to promote awareness about human rights violations, has...
  • Mercosur Summit scheduled for Puerto Iguazú
    Saturday, June 3, 2023 from MercoPress
    The Argentine city of Puerto Iguazú in the province of Misiones will host the LXII Mercosur Summit on July 3 and 4, during which Alberto Fernández will pass on the pro tempore presidency of the bloc to his Brazilian counterpart Luiz...
  • Mercosur Summit scheduled for Puerto Iguazú
    Saturday, June 3, 2023 from MercoPress
    The Argentine city of Puerto Iguazú in the province of Misiones will host the LXII Mercosur Summit on July 3 and 4, during which Alberto Fernández will pass on the pro tempore presidency of the bloc to his Brazilian counterpart Luiz...
  • New currency swap with China gives Argentina some financial relief
    Saturday, June 3, 2023 from MercoPress
    Argentina will have US$ 10 billion to play on the domestic foreign exchange market and avoid a steeper devaluation of the peso after renewing a currency swap with China, Economy Minister Sergio Massa announced in Beijing Friday.
  • Mercosur agreement on marital issues reached in Buenos Aires
    Saturday, June 3, 2023 from MercoPress
    Justice Ministers of all Mercosur member countries Friday signed in Buenos Aires an agreement aimed at joint regulation of marriages. The document seeks to unify legal issues related to matrimonial matters, personal and patrimonial...
  • Lula picks his own lawyer for Supreme Court
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from MercoPress
    Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Thursday chose his personal lawyer Cristiano Zanin Martins to become a new member of the Supreme Federal Court (STF). Zanin would fill the opening left by Ricardo Lewandowski's early...
  • Bolsonaro faces disenfranchisement following new TSE ruling
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from MercoPress
    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro might be disenfranchised in the investigation Brazil's Superior Electoral Court Justice Benedito Gonçalves, acting as case rapporteur, greenlighted Thursday.
  • Argentina to join BRICS bank?
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from MercoPress
    Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa was told in Shanghai by New Development Bank President Dilma Rousseff that the road was clear for Argentina to join the entity and thus be able to obtain some financial backing in the near future,...
  • Argentinian scientist becomes first woman to head WMO
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from MercoPress
    Argentina's National Meteorological Service Director Celeste Saulo has been chosen to become the new Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), it was announced Thursday in Geneva.
  • Brazil's Senate passes bill for equal pay to men and women
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from MercoPress
    Brazil's Senate Thursday approved the bill making equal pay for men and women mandatory when they perform work of equal value or the same function, Agencia Brasil reported. The document is now ready for President Luiz Inácio Lula Da...
  • Former Brazilian President Collor sentenced to nearly 9 years for corruption
    Thursday, June 1, 2023 from MercoPress
    Former Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Melo was sentenced by the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to 8 years and 10 months in jail Tuesday for having received some US$4 million to “irregularly facilitate contracts” between a...
  • Pope Francis and Lula discuss Ukraine and possible trips
    Thursday, June 1, 2023 from MercoPress
    Pope Francis and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday discussed the situation in Ukraine during a telephone conversation in which the South American leader invited the Argentine priest to visit his country soon.
  • Brazil's surplus falls 47% interannually in first four months of 2023
    Thursday, June 1, 2023 from MercoPress
    Brazil's Central Bank (BCB) reported Wednesday that the South American country's public sector accounts (federal government, states and municipalities, and state-owned companies) recorded a primary surplus of R$ 78.7 billion reais (US$...
  • No prescription required in Argentina for "morning-after pill"
    Thursday, June 1, 2023 from MercoPress
    Argentina's Health Ministry issued a resolution allowing for the emergency hormonal contraception method (AHE), also known as "the morning-after pill" to be sold in all pharmacies nationwide without a medical prescription. This measure,...
  • Lula rebuts comments from Boric and Lacalle
    Wednesday, May 31, 2023 from MercoPress
    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated on Tuesday that the meeting of 11 South American presidents at the Itamaraty Palace was not a group of friends, but of presidents seeking regional coordination, reported Agência Brasil.
  • Minister Massa announces agreements for about US$ 1 billion
    Wednesday, May 31, 2023 from MercoPress
    Argentina's Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, announced from Shanghai that he has obtained financing for approximately US$ 1 billion for investments and disbursements that will strengthen the Central Bank's reserves.
  • South American Presidents sign Brasilia Consensus
    Wednesday, May 31, 2023 from MercoPress
    After the Summit of South American leaders in Brasilia, the 11 attending presidents reached a consensus on cooperation and integration in the region.
  • South American Presidents sign Brasilia Consensus
    Wednesday, May 31, 2023 from MercoPress
    After the Summit of South American leaders in Brasilia, the 11 attending presidents reached a consensus on cooperation and integration in the region.
  • Argentina forecasted to become 2nd world lithium producer by 2035
    Wednesday, May 31, 2023 from MercoPress
    Argentina will overtake Chile as the world's second-largest lithium producer by 2035, according to the Chilean Copper Commission (Cochilco), it was reported in Santiago.
  • Highest-denomination bill in Argentina is now the 2,000-peso note, worth $4
    Monday, May 22, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Country unveils new banknote as currency plummets with inflation on course to 130% Argentina’s new 2,000-peso bill, the country’s largest-denomination note, went into circulation on Monday, though due to fast depreciation of the currency...
  • The Delinquents review – beguilingly surreal slow-motion Buenos Aires heist tale
    Thursday, May 18, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    If Pedro Almodóvar and Eric Rohmer teamed up to compose a meanderingly long crime caper it might look like this Very few films make you ask “what just happened?” at the end – and also in fact “what is happening right now?” at various...
  • ‘Every song took you on a musical odyssey!’ The rediscovery of Soda Stereo, Argentina’s biggest band
    Wednesday, May 17, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    The trio’s Police-inspired sound shot them to Latin megastardom. 40 years later, audiences worldwide are finally tuning in – including Bono and Chris Martin Rudy Pensa, the Argentine-born owner of New York guitar store Rudy’s Music Stop...
  • Agustina Bazterrica: ‘Capitalism and cannibalism are almost the same’
    Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    The Argentinian writer on her new short-story collection and how her dystopian novel about a human meat industry became a TikTok sensation Every day, upon leaving her Catholic high school, Agustina Bazterrica and her friends were...
  • Eight healthcare professionals to stand trial in Diego Maradona’s death
    Wednesday, April 19, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Maradona’s medical team on trial in former great’s death Legendary footballer died in November 2020 at age of 60 Eight healthcare professionals will stand trial over the death of football great Diego Maradona in 2020, an Argentinian...
  • ‘No one can deny it now’: death flight plane to be returned to Argentina
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Flight logs revealed how 12 people were thrown out to their deaths into the Atlantic during the years of dictatorship On the night of 14 December 1977, the three pilots flew their turboprop aeroplane for more than an hour out over the...
  • The Messi of maths: Argentinian Luis Caffarelli wins Abel prize
    Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Caffarelli, 74, takes top trophy for work on partial differential equations, the first winner from South America First football, and now maths. Three months after Lionel Messi triumphed at the World Cup, an Argentinian has won the top...
  • Argentina’s inflation rate soars past 100%, its worst in over 30 years
    Wednesday, March 15, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Annual rate of 102.5% is denting purchasing power, savings, economic growth and government’s chances in elections next year Argentina ’s annual inflation rate tore past 100% in February, the country’s statistics agency announced, the...
  • Condor’s Nest review – Tarantino-esque Nazi-hunt thriller heads for the pampas
    Monday, March 13, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Director Phil Blattenberger wears his love for the genre on his sleeve, but this allows him to outrun the film’s uneven execution and loose plot American director Phil Blattenberger gets props here for stretching his budget...
  • Gunmen threaten Lionel Messi in attack on in-laws’ supermarket – video
    Thursday, March 2, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Police said two men on a motorcycle fired at least a dozen shots into a supermarket in Rosario, Argentina in the early hours of Thursday morning and left a message on a piece of cardboard that read, “Messi, we’re waiting for you....
  • ‘We’re waiting for you’: Gunmen threaten Messi in attack on in-laws’ supermarket
    Thursday, March 2, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Men open fire on store in Messi’s hometown of Rosario Argentina star has yet to comment on incident Gunmen left a threatening message on Thursday for Lionel Messi and opened fire at a supermarket owned by his in-laws in his hometown of...
  • ‘An everyday thing’: a fatal beating reveals Argentina’s racist bias
    Tuesday, February 21, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Fernando Báez Sosa, son of Paraguayan immigrants, was killed by men who screamed racist slurs as they kicked him to death The murder of Fernando Báez Sosa rocked Argentina. A nightclub altercation turned deadly as a group of amateur...
  • Weather tracker: world braces for sudden stratospheric warming event
    Friday, February 17, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    SSW phenomenon is linked to polar vortex, an area of low pressure across the North Pole. Meanwhile, Argentina has been gripped by a heatwave There has been keen interest over recent weeks in the much-anticipated sudden stratospheric...
  • Crackdown on ‘birth tourism’ as pregnant Russians flock to Argentina
    Friday, February 10, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    South American country has seen rise since Ukraine invasion in Russian women arriving to have children and thus gain citizenship Immigration authorities in Argentina are cracking down on Russian women who since the invasion of Ukraine...
  • ‘My mother said, I still love the general, but he has to go to jail’: Luis Moreno Ocampo on Argentina 1985
    Thursday, February 9, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    The notable former prosecutor in The Hague talks about the courtroom drama showing the legal takedown of Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship, which is tipped for an Oscar A lifetime spent putting mass murderers behind bars has not...
  • Argentinian rugby players sentenced to life in prison over teen’s murder
    Monday, February 6, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Fernando Báez Sosa, son of Paraguayan immigrants, was attacked outside nightclub in what family see as racially motivated attack Eight amateur rugby players have been found guilty over the murder of an aspiring law student in Argentina,...
  • Weather tracker: extremes of heat and cold hit South and North America
    Monday, February 6, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    Conditions in parts of South America up to 10C above average as US records its coldest ever temperature Unrelenting and record-breaking heat is expected to continue across parts of South America this week. Temperatures are forecast to...
  • Deforestation piles pressure on South America’s elusive Chacoan peccary
    Tuesday, January 31, 2023 from World news: Argentina | theguardian.com
    With just 3,000 of the pig-like animals still roaming the Gran Chaco region, a community conservation effort in Argentina is fighting for its future The Chacoan peccary is so elusive that scientists believed it was extinct until its...
  • Lockdown 'sex party' at Newcastle Cathedral under investigation by the Vatican
    Sunday, January 22, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Ambulance strike dates: When they are and what to do if you need emergency help
    Sunday, January 22, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Two dead and 12 injured in horror crash on M40
    Sunday, January 22, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Miss Wales seriously injured in M4 car crash
    Saturday, January 21, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Stagecoach founder Dame Anne Gloag charged with human trafficking
    Saturday, January 21, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Lost seal visits kebab shop and amusement arcade in Friday night on the town
    Saturday, January 21, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Gas hobs could be worse for your lungs than polluted city streets
    Saturday, January 21, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Counter-terror investigation after man with gun and suspect package arrested at Leeds hospital
    Saturday, January 21, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Law student 'would likely still be alive if he had seen GP face-to-face'
    Friday, January 20, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Army captain breaks record for longest solo female polar expedition
    Friday, January 20, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Holiday boost as EU delays fingerprint checking
    Friday, January 20, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
  • Met Police sex abuser David Carrick took victim on trips to Downing Street
    Friday, January 20, 2023 from Argentina news all the latest and breaking Argentina news
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