Updated 11/11/2021 01:14 pm Argentina will donate about one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 to five countries, the Government reported this Thursday in a series of decrees published in its Official Gazette. “Guided by the principles of solidarity and fraternity”, as stated in the document, Argentina will donate 450,000 doses to Mozambique, […]
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Javier Milei, the ultra-liberal who offers to end the Argentine political caste
51-year-old economist, ultra-liberal and provocative, Javier Milei emerges as an electoral phenomenon in Buenos Aires where, with a speech against politicians, he disputes second place in Sunday’s parliamentary elections to the center-left ruling coalition Frente de Todos. “I did not come here to lead lambs, I came to awaken lions”, cry out mercy in a […]
Maintaining the value of the Argentine peso could cost the Peronists the election
The Argentine currency, the peso, in its different exchange markets could complicate the national government, Peronism, in the next legislative elections and cost them the majority in Congress. The local currency, which a little more than two decades ago maintained a one-to-one parity against the dollar Currently, it is barely equivalent to one cent of […]
Midterm elections settle control of Congress in Argentina
Argentina will hold legislative elections on Sunday in which the ruling Peronism will seek to avoid a tough defeat that could take away its majority in the Senate and its leadership in the Lower House. Why is choice important? The election is critical for center-left President Alberto Fernández and his government. A heavy defeat could […]
Government of Argentina and main laboratories agree to stabilize prices of medicines until January
Updated on 11/09/2021 01:45 pm The Peronist government of Argentina and the country’s main laboratories agreed to roll back drug prices to the values ​​in effect on November 1 and keep them stable until January 2022, in an attempt to slow down the constant rise in prices. Juan Jose Marconi, head of the Business Chamber […]
Eramet relaunches the construction of its lithium plant in Argentina
Updated on 11/08/2021 09:30 am The French mining group Eramet announced that it will relaunch the construction of its lithium plant in Argentina to meet the strong demand for this metal in the context of the energy transition. The group that owns a large stock of lithium in Argentina had suspended its development projects in […]
Argentina reduces export duties on processed fish products
Argentina resolved to reduce the rights of export for fish products processed entirely in the country to encourage shipments abroad from this sector, official sources reported this Saturday. Through a decree signed by the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, and published this Saturday in the Official Gazette, export duties were eliminated – up to 4.5% – […]
Argentina’s opposition would inflict a resounding defeat to Peronism in legislative elections
According to the latest polls, Argentina’s center-right opposition would once again beat the Peronist ruling party in the midterm elections to be held on November 14, after a resounding victory in the September primaries. The opposition leads most of the polls by at least eight points, which could lead Alberto Fernández’s government to lose its […]
Banks in Argentina will not be able to vary their dollar holdings this month
The Central Bank of Argentina ruled this Thursday that until the end of this month the banks operating in the country do not alter their current level of holdings of Dollars, at a time when the price of the US currency has reached new highs in the face of growing demand. The measure was adopted […]
The appetite for dollars in Argentina pushes prices to new records
The growing appetite for Dollars Americans in Argentina, fueled by doubts about the weak economy of the South American country, this Thursday pushed the multiple prices of the US currency to new record levels. The so-called “blue dollar” (informal retail market) reached a new maximum of 200 pesos per unit for sale, although at the […]