Argentina

Thursday, July 10th 2025 - 10:59 UTC
CFK questions Argentina's Independence if subjected to IMF rules

Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) warned that her country was facing a “real structural problem,” not merely an adjustment or crisis. In a recorded message from the apartment where she is serving a six-year prison sentence for corruption under house arrest played to her followers at the nearby Parque Lezama, she urged Peronists to “defend independence” and seek electoral support to regain power.
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Thursday, July 10th 2025 - 10:58 UTC
Milei’s La Libertad Avanza and PRO announce Buenos Aires Province alliance

Former President Mauricio Macri's Propuesta Republicana (PRO) announced Wednesday an electoral alliance with Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) for the Sept. 7 mid-term elections in the province of Buenos Aires, the country's largest electoral district.
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Thursday, July 10th 2025 - 10:54 UTC
Villarruel leads Independence Day celebrations amid Milei’s absence

While President Javier Milei could not attend the main Independence Day celebrations in Tucumán, citing poor visibility affecting flights, Vice President Victoria Villarruel managed to travel to the city where the declaration was signed 209 years ago. “How could I not be here?” she said.
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Wednesday, July 9th 2025 - 21:06 UTC
Dead whale found north of Buenos Aires City

A dead whale was found a few meters from the shore in Vicente López, on the northern outskirts of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A fisherman spotted the animal, believed to be a young calf, near kilometer 18 of the coastal channel in La Lucila and reported it to the Coast Guard (PNA), which, together with Civil Defense and local Police, established a security perimeter around it. The whale had its fins facing upward.
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Wednesday, July 9th 2025 - 09:49 UTC
Milei cancels trip to Tucumán for Independence Day celebrations

President Javier Milei canceled his planned trip to Tucumán due to adverse weather conditions disrupting flights nationwide. This decision also came amidst reports of low confirmed attendance from provincial governors, with only a handful planning to join the Argentine Independence Day ceremony where the declaration was signed on July 9, 1816.
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Tuesday, July 8th 2025 - 10:54 UTC
Falklands, Inside the secret military dialogue between Britain and Argentina, according to The Economist

United States top brass worries about the South Atlantic. It is a jumping-off point for Antarctica, where Russia and China boast 15 bases between them, scrambling to lock down resources. It is linked to the Pacific by the Strait of Magellan, the only safe maritime route between the two oceans other than the drought-hit Panama Canal. Traffic through the Strait is surging, as is illegal Chinese fishing on either side. China is pushing infrastructure projects across the region. US top generals have visited Argentina’s Deep South three times in the last two years.
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Monday, July 7th 2025 - 20:19 UTC
Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find Grandson #140

The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights organization announced Monday the finding of the 140th grandchild, born to people kidnapped and disappeared under Argentina's military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.
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Monday, July 7th 2025 - 09:03 UTC
Buenos Aires Peronists join forces to fight Milei's chainsaw policies

The Justicialist (Peronist) Party (PJ) in the Argentine Province of Buenos Aires agreed on a unified strategy vis-à-vis the Sept. 7 mid-term provincial elections in a convention attended by 691 representatives and chaired by Fernando Espinoza. The conclave agreed on appointing a commission to form this new front.
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Saturday, July 5th 2025 - 19:21 UTC
Milei welcomes Modi at Casa Rosada

Argentine President Javier Milei welcomed India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss trade, investment, energy, critical minerals, defense, aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and other issues.
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Saturday, July 5th 2025 - 09:34 UTC
Argentina: Independence Day military parade called off

The Argentine Government of President Javier Milei has canceled the traditional July 9 Independence Day military parade to save public funds, the Defense Ministry announced Friday. The move came as a surprise, given that the Milei administration had reinstated and heavily promoted the parade last year after it was discontinued during the Alberto Fernández and Kirchner administrations.
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