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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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,...
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 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 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$4 million to “irregularly facilitate contracts” between a...
Pope Francis and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday discussed the situation in Ukraine during a telephone conversation in which the South American leader invited the Argentine priest to visit his country soon.
Brazil's Central Bank (BCB) reported Wednesday that the South American country's public sector accounts (federal government, states and municipalities, and state-owned companies) recorded a primary surplus of R$ 78.7 billion reais (US$...
Argentina's Health Ministry issued a resolution allowing for the emergency hormonal contraception method (AHE), also known as "the morning-after pill" to be sold in all pharmacies nationwide without a medical prescription. This measure,...
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated on Tuesday that the meeting of 11 South American presidents at the Itamaraty Palace was not a group of friends, but of presidents seeking regional coordination, reported Agência Brasil.
Argentina's Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, announced from Shanghai that he has obtained financing for approximately US$ 1 billion for investments and disbursements that will strengthen the Central Bank's reserves.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...